Labor unions: the people who brought you the weekend. a concept
Let’s get the big money out of politics. -- Martha Holmes
Controlling the agenda, pre-choosing the (obvious) choices/options to be presented, writing the ideologies we breathe like air, and making all of these totally legitimate. -- embellished note-to-myself
It is a framework which, at one level, extols the virtues of individualism and entrepreneurship but, in effect, nurtures and reinforces collective (particularly corporate) interests and structural inequalities.-- Gregory Squires on privatism
If there’s an underlying message in this show...it’s that the authorities don’t always have your best interests in mind. No matter what they say. -- Matt Groening on a certain animated comedy program
Yesterday is behind us, but tomorrow is before us." -- Damn, that’s profound!
I must keep in mind who it is that pays for media news shows and who owns the networks that report news. For example, the Ford Motor company sponsors the PBS program ’Washington Week in Review,’ and ’ABC World News Tonight’ is owned by Disney. I was reminded of this by a lecture I heard on public radio (also the media). I don’t know who sponsored the lecture. -- embellished note-to-self
The Church of Shop Stopping on NPR: Listen.
Globalization: It’s what’s for dinner! Say ’Ahhh....’ -- in case anyone has forgotten
Listen to an interview with Thomas Friedman on the Diane Rehm Show, re: Globalization.
Listen to an interview with Ralph Nader on the Diane Rehm Show.
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