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Re: “Dancing About Architecture: 33 ⅓ Memorial Day 4-pack”
Goose! Great post. Fear of Music is a fantastic read. Also, read Lethem's Fortress of Solitude if you haven't.
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
WOW, xray/zoombah/gastthedead/vladthevulgarnakedmonkey, looks like AnglRdr served you a sh*t supper.
The Cato Institute, founded as the Charles Koch Foundation, has a definite prejudice for free market, small government, libertarian POV's that even Ayn Rand would shy from. It is not a viable source.
As for who's to blame for Wall Street failures, why I'm sure it's poor people, they cause ALL the world's woes, don't they?
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
"I didn't realize that was a controversial statement."
It's not. Not to any viewer with half a brain, anyway. Remember Channel 5's "Islamville" stories a few years ago.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
So, David, you are saying the major News Print media outlet of a southern city located in the Golden Buckle of the Bible Belt and staunch good ol' boy patriotism (Wake Up America & Phil Valentine); Capital of a state where the local state legislature (Komedy Klown Kongress) is ruled by The Average White Party (Teabagger GOPhers) and the Gubner (Skippy Haslem) is a dyed in the wool Eaststate rich boy conservative; just down the street from a national laughingstock effort to deny U S Constitutional rights for a place of worship to exist led by a Neo Nazi (IMHO) madwoman (Frau Zelnick) leans a bit toward the Christianist philososphy of freedom for us, not so much for you heathen bastard Non-believer.
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
Bobs, you're a moron. Please go away.
xray, there are a couple of issues with the article. The first one is regarding the tightened enforcement of CRA, and how that "forced" banks to make bad loans. That simply is not true. Most of the bad mortgages weren't made to poor people.
And its conclusion is faulty. What crashed the market was the bundling of subprime mortgage backed securities without fully disclosing to the investors what the risk was, or, in many cases, flat out lying about the risks.
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
Nashville is a great, interesting, diverse city. But it cannot fill 3 hours of morning news, an hour of noon time news, 90 minutes of evening news, and 30 minutes of 10pm news.
That's why we get people like that woman (I don't know what to call her since she's definitely not a reporter) on WSMV's morning news showing us on Google Earth where the Mexican border is in relation to McAllen Texas, using the telestrater app to show that it is 20(!!) miles from McAllen to the border. And she's so breathless about it, as if it actually matters for something about the story.
And the other channels are the exact same drivel. The personalities on WSMV are the least offensive to me, though.
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
Could the solution be to deny advertising on a stations newscasts and require the stations to produce newscasts IF they have a certain % viewership? Would removing the profit motive from public media affect positively the quality of such? Or should the advertizing rates in a market be set by the FCC for ALL stations!
Re: “Burger Republic to Open in the Gulch”
I've been to the one in Lenox Village a few times and the burgers were quite tasty. I especially enjoyed the shakes with alcohol. Looking forward to the Gulch location.
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
When I started in television news (1977), local news was not widely viewed as a profit-making venture. It was an obligation imposed on stations by the FCC in order to retain their license to broadcast on the public airways.
Somewhere along the way, newscasts became enormous profit centers for local broadcasters. Because stations control 100% of the commercial inventory during their own news programs, and because they have more control over the quality (and presumably the level of audience) during those programs, it became possible for local news programs to generate a disproportionate share of the station's revenue. It was at about this time you started to see morning news, noon news, hour-long evening news, etc.
When local news became a potential profit-monster, it increased the pressure on all stations for news ratings, upon which the advertising prices are based. Consultants like Magid and Audience Research & Development began to troll the country with sample five-part series on tape, urging their clients to duplicate successful series from other markets during sweeps months.
It ain't necessarily so that TV stations practice shoddy journalism during sweeps. It is true, however, that the pressure to produce grabby, promotable stories during sweeps is enormous.
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
@Jim Collins: Find one factual error in the link from the Cato Institute. You can't. You won't. Of course you didn't read it and won't read it because you're lazy. You're still wishing all the idiocy about Wall Street was true. Most of the Wall Street blame traces back to Democrats blowing smoke to obscure the roles played by Dodd and Franks which most of the news media refused to air - didn't fit their agenda. And gee whiz, why don't you still live in good old California? Tennessee wouldn't miss you at all. There is nothing that links California's problems to their referendums. As far as ranking the states, you do have a source for your own financial rankings, right? Oh, you don't? Why am I not surprised? Why do you bother to argue when the facts make you look like an idiot?
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Nonsense, the Tennessean does plenty of stories on Muslims.
Just the other day I saw one about a couple of them set off bombs at the Boston Marathon and one of them left a note saying that Allah told him to do it. Then I saw another one where they were killing Christians by the thousands in Nigeria. There were another couple of stories about a couple of female Muslims convicted of raising funds under false pretenses in Minnesota and sending the proceeds to terrorist organizations.
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
We need a @HuffPoSpoilers for the local news twitter.
Re: “A Big Week for the Peg Leg Porker”
Really excited about his restaurant. I have got to get myself to Memphis in May. It's a shame that I've never been!
Re: “Go Get a Goo Goo ... at Fontanel!”
im really excited about this addition. for those of you who have not eaten at the restaurant please give it a try. its lovely and quiet but not fancy or expensive. i love the food there and they have a very nice quiet friendly happy hour. the trails are very pretty and shady and its a great place to take your dog friends! i really hope that this area continues to grow as a destination. i cant wait to see the new bed and breakfast that they are building that will be a design house prior to opening as a b and b.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
I didn't realize Betsy was a paid staffer at the Tennessean.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Yawn. Bitching about "the Christians" is like bitching about the rain. It makes good conversation but means nothing.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
So Betsy, instead of whining about what the Tennessean is doing or not doing, why not do the article you think they should have done?
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
>>Not that its my job to do your googling<<
A) *I* didn't make the claim CA was well off.
B) Your link won't work for me, it freezes on my computer.
Re: “Boy Scouts Polling Members About Gays”
All pederasts are gay. That is a fact. Read this column about what is happening in our military: http://bit.ly/YIUmTf
We now have more men raped by men than women raped by men. The future of the BSA?
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Not to quibble tooooo much but Mormons are NOT Christian: they are a polytheistic religion which uses Christian terminology.