Letters to the Editor
sceptical
Published Letters: 95 Editor's Choice: 16
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Case closed
[Read the article: Case closed? Not so fast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From the Editor of the Corpus Christi Caller "Maybe it's the pride in my staff talking, but I believe the White House press corps is whining just a bit because this news came first through a local daily newspaper's Web site and not following a mass press briefing thousands of miles away from the accident.
We got the story first by consistently working hard and professionally and gaining the trust of our sources. And because we did, the rest of the world got the story, too.
"We knew we needed to make it public," Armstrong told Powell. "It was a private weekend hosted by a private family, and we were comfortable calling the hometown paper and you. I trust you.""
Yea like they trust you not to ask any embarrassing questions about a story that was dropped in your lap, after all they're all just like family down there right?
Well will NEVER know the truth about what happened down their in our lifetime.
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Labor as a commodity
[Read the article: The case for globalized labor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately labor is a commodity just as surely as any of the raw materials that go into everything thing that is produced and consumed world wide. There is no shortage of people globally, only localized imbalances. Just as surely as we will continue to see an ever rising price for the shrinking reserves of crude oil, we will also see no improvement in wages for the poorest segment of the world’s population, until the population stabilizes or begins to decline. And don't forget that our global economy is also dependant on cheap transportation. As the cost of fuel continues to increase it will begin to impact the transportation of goods that are now produced by cheap labor in one region and then shipped to another region where they are consumed, which will further compound their plight.
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Steven Who?
[Read the article: Lou Dobbs, Stephen Colbert and the myth of the liberal media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm nearly 60 years old and a great fan of both the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. I almost always watch them both after the PBS News Hour. I knew before hand that Mr. Colbert was going to appear at the Correspondent’s dinner Saturday night on CSPAN and made a point of watching. It was an outrageously wonderful experience to watch. The response of the attendees ran the gamut from nervous laughter to slack jawed amazement, and disbelief. Justice Scalia, bless his right wing heart, was man enough to laugh uproariously when Colbert welcomed him with some Sicilian gestures of disputed meaning. But quite frankly I can't imagine that much of the rest of the viewing public was also tuned in, I mean come on its not like LIVE FROM NEW YORK IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT! Monday morning I asked my co workers both young and old alike, and nobody, I mean nobody knew what I was talking about. Three quarters of them didn't even know who Steven Colbert was, and I work at Universal Studios in Hollywood. So what's my point? The point is everybody's view of the unrolling of daily events is absolutely shaped by where they get their news whether from newspapers, radio, television or the internet. There is no such thing as fair and balanced, anywhere. Public opinion on whole drifts like one of those jelly fish on National Geographic channel, where ever the strongest currents take it.
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I don't know...I'm not competent...thank you
[Read the article: Snow on Rove: "I don't know ... I'm not competent ... thank you"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the 1967 movie A Guide for the Married Man, Walter Matthau is tutoring Robert Morse about the intricacies of cheating on his wife, Inger Stevens. The lessons are shown as series vignettes with well known actors of which one is particularly apt. Sid Caesar caught in bed with another women in his own home by his wife Imogene Coca... Now Matthau tells Morse, "If you find yourself in this situation, no matter what, deny everything. As the scene plays out Caesar and the other women get out of bed, Coca rants, Caesar and the other woman get dressed, Coca rants, Caesar and the other women make the bed, Coca rants, Caesar kisses the other women good bye, Coca rants, Caesar sits down in the living room, picks up the newspaper and begins to read, Coca rants, Caesar looks up a Coca and asks, "What's for dinner dear?" Coca responds as though what she has just witnessed never really happened, with a smile, "What ever you would like dear"
This I think is the technique that the Bush administration has been using with a fair amount of success on the American public though the press since it’s inauguration. No matter what happens deny everything. One of the great things about making Tony Snow the administration’s information shill is that he can truthfully say I don’t know about that, it happened before my watch. Remember the American public only gets about 5 minutes or less about all of this several times a week at most. Plame what? And on final thought: Just because Karl Rove wasn’t indicted doesn't mean he is innocent of the charges that may have been brought against him.
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The End, Not Likely
[Read the article: Is this the end for Ann Coulter?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To quote Editor and Publisher, "Ann Coulter hasn't lost any of her 100-plus newspaper clients, or the support of her syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, despite her nasty remarks in her new book about 9/11 widows and her comment in an online interview implying that, perhaps, U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) should be "fragged."
A Universal spokesman said there were no discussions going on there about dropping the columnist."
This woman is making money for herself and her publisher and the newpaper syndicate that carries her vitrol, and as everybody knows, or should know... Money makes the world go around.
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DISCOUNT DOC?
[Read the article: LASIK surgery ruined my eyes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't read thru all the comments to this poor individuals troubles, just let me say one thing: when you buy a TV shop by price, but when it comes to your health and doctors SHOP FOR PERFORMANCE.