Sunday, April 29, 2012

A note to our readers

Hey --
Another Sunday.

First up, we thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

We thank them all. What did we come up with?

A media criticism that we all loved.
Cockburn on the War Hawks.

Oh how the whores lie.  (Sing it to Vanessa Williams "Oh, How The Years Go By.")

Ava and C.I. take on 30 Rock.  (They call the show "the beast that won't die."  The Friday 13th of TV shows, not even low ratings through the heart can kill it.)

Important report on who is ripping off veterans.  We utilized the reporting Kat, Wally, Ava and C.I. did last week as well as details they told us about the hearing while we were writing this piece.

C.I. noted this in real time.  Real time?  We were doing a roundtable.  One of the e-mails was that NPR's coverage of primaries was being picked on and we didn't do primary coverage because we couldn't do better.  C.I. took it as a challenge.  This section was stripped from the e-mail roundtable because we were going to use it as the intro to that piece.  It was going to be a transcript piece.  C.I. assigned Elaine to moderate/anchor and Kat wanted to be the other one so she could be "giggly'" like the NPR female co-hosts on that live primary coverage.  This led to Kat saying things like, "Huh, I'm a girl! Giggle giggle!"  I (Jim) forget who was doing what but it was all women.  C.I. was giving political analaysis.  Betty was doing media analysis.  Dona was strictly noting the results.  And I stopped it.   I said, "What?"  C.I. was doing a political analysis on the mocking of the GOP candidates and how this was going to help the eventual winner -- Elaine pressed for who and C.I. said it was Mitt -- because he was the normal one of the crazy bunch.  The Democrats had established an image that helped Romney.  The voters would be, "Can you believe they almost gave us crazy Newt? Or Santorum?"  I screamed stop and killed the piece.  I said this could change the tactics and asked if we wanted to help the re-election campaign? Was that our purpose?  No.  Alright, let's table this topic until the Dems drop that bit.  Now we can cover it.
The Obama campaign says there are ten battleground states.
This was our campaign edition.  We may tackle student loans next week but we didn't have time this go round.

Jill Stein is running for the Green Party's presidential nomination.
A Workers World repost.  If you see the 'war on women' post at WW, we saw it too.  We're not advancing that,  we're not part of the re-election campaign.  We find it humorous that a number of people and orgs in that article are suddenly pretending to care about women, now that 'war on women' is a DNC talking point.


Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.



Peace.

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.
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