Scraps of Paper
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“ Even before Benghazi, the IRS and the Department of Justice controversies started heating up, the economy had consistently taken a back seat to issues such as immigration and gun control.
“The economy is by far the most important issue for voters,” says Karlyn Bowman, a polling expert at the American Enterprise Institute. “It’s not unusual for Washington preoccupations to be different than those of the public.”
She says that the public is skeptical that Washington can provide economic answers at this point. Politicians themselves seem a little dubious.
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Girl, 16 others wounded in a New Orleans Mother's Day shooting - CBS News I just can’t
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A mass shooting on Mother’s Day. Absolutely terrible.
(via Dozen injured in New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting - U.S. News)
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Listening to Mike and Mike Interview Martina Navratilova about coming out
While Jason Collins is very brave, let’s remember 30 years ago the president of the US was openly homophobic.
Times are changing for the better.
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Headlines like this drive me crazy…
‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law abcn.ws/12Y1XyG
— ABC World News (@ABCWorldNews) April 30, 2013The media is great at quoting polls but seems to take no responsibility for the fact they do nothing to educate the public.
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“Previous attempts by the Islamic republic to put a monkey into space have failed.” —Breaking News: Iran launches monkey into space
Might be the funniest sentence I’ve ever read in a serious news story.
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NY Times is breaking up its Environmental Department They say there will be no drop off is coverage.
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When I look at how the news is actually covered and presented to the public, it’s really not surprising that everyone has no idea what the hell is going on.
CNN has literally every minute of everyday to put on thoughtful interesting programming that has the chance to inform the American people, same for MSNBC and FOX news. Instead they spend that time desperately trying to prove that they still get it. They are still the “first name in news” that somehow you didn’t just read the same headline on twitter. That somehow they are more valuable than an in depth article on the NY Times.
Yet in their sad desperation to stay relevant they aren’t the saddest part of the TV news business.
MSNBC and FOX don’t report the news from a certain viewpoint. That would be bad enough. They actively attempt to make their viewers fear and loathe the other side.
I don’t care if that’s what the populous might want and if it’s the ticket to short term ratings.
What I care about is living in a country where the citizens aren’t talked down too or worse lied to.
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“The survey finds that 65 percent of Americans believe Obama will sincerely try to work across the aisle on national problems, while 57 percent believe that congressional Democrats will do the same.” — Politico -
By the way, Japan is about to own as much of our debt as China.
