Re:Left-wing media a financial failure?
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Well id hate to sound "elitist" but i dont think you understand the republican party's agenda.
The republican party wants to lower taxes for the rich and make the poorpay for it.
Usually when they lower taxes there is some nominal decrease for the poor, BUT the poor soon pay that back many times over, because usually after taxes are lowered deficits ensue, the government starts borrowing and those loans must be payed back with interest from taxes in the future, which are usually less progressive than before.
I like the salon, I read it daily or every couple of days. They are pretty informative, although they sometimes print (or upload) some stuff that is quite outragous.
Here is the secret of right wing media
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Right wing media functions on the same principle as infomercials.
Their customers arent the viewers but the people pushing the message. They make their money by ensuring that certain types of messages are continously pushed at the people.
Truly left wing media does not have that choice. There isnt some one that will make a lot of money if truly left wing agenda is pushed. So there is no one to pay for it. Sure most people will benefit. But that is the problem large groups of people have the collective action problem and cant take up media empires. Rupert Murdoch can.
It is true that Rush dominates the radio waves, it is also true that less and less people are listening to radio. So Rush is not on every damn radio station because people really like him, but because powerful people want him there, and they want him saying the things he is saying.
That being said there is another issue - what people call left wing media (CNN ABC, etc) is not really left wing. And if you use that definition left wing media is not doing that bad - i am sure in the nytimes they laugh at the ny post, and even after recieving hundreds of millions of dollars from a cult leader the washington times is nothing compared to the washington post (considered to be liberal for some bizare reason).
Truly left wing media is really rare and is usually actively resisted by powerful people including "left wing" media. Thus Naom Chomsky although he sells a lot of books, and sells out every public appearence he does, will have a lot of trouble getting a column published in the "liberal" ny times.
The record companies may not make that much (for record companies) but there are shitload of people associated with the system that are not musicians, that are pulling down millions.
And all that money goes as expenses for the record companies.
that 90% of records dont make money claimis complete bs.
How expensive is to manufacture a damn music cd anyways. Its pretty cheap considering its being made by a huge volume repeat player.
And those cds are being sold at costs 20 - 40 times their value.
Then how do all those albums fail to make money after selling thousands of copies? Well its easy - its what economists call rent seekers - various execs, agents, promoters, advertising execs, etc that have secured nice little chokepoints in the distribution chain and demand payment whenever something passes trough them.
So there you have it. The whole distribution chain is due for a shakeup. Hopefully the internetwill help with that.
If they give complete deregulation all the signals will destroy each other, and clear channel would make sure theirs are the strongest.
Ifthey still somwhow sold licences clear channel would buy them all.
Maybe they can institute some kind of bandwidth sharing, but that usually requires modified radio recievers. So every one will have to buy a new car radio.
It is interesting how senators are willing to help the little auto mechanic, from being locked out by the large manufacturer, but not the little pc software developer from being locked out by the large software developers.
What is it? Is it because auto mechanics is an easier bussiness to understand? Are they better organized? Or is it because the small automechanic is an old institution.
that watches monty python... and now for the bonus question:
which nation's people are the worst tennis players in theuniverse. The answer will appear on your tv screen. If you do not want to see the answer please turn your tv upside down.
When i first came to america long time ago, when i first went into scool they gave me a test designed to check if i was able to function in american society (to see whether i needed special classes). I felt pretty confident, knowing english well and all, but at one point they gave me a sheet with pictures of coins, and asked me which ones i should use to make 1.52. Well i spent ten minutes looking for numbers and after that i declared that there was something wrong with those coins:).
But I dont think thats of much concern for the US govt. Unfortunately i dont think they care much about immigrants that need to count their change.
They do care about foreigners using us dollars for trade and investment, and those people mostly use large notes. I read somewhere that the hundred dollar note is the most used us banknote abroad.
Re:wish they'd be a little more radical...
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Well old presidents are safe.
There isnt much complaint about people like Lincoln, Washington etc.
But when you get into culture things get tricky. Having Mark Twain on our money would be great as a representation of what America has given to the world, but once we put Mark Twain on our money some people will start insisting on some more divisive or just bad choices. For example religous leaders will come up. Some more questionable writers will come up.
Remember the stamps? It started out with putting great americans on our stamps and then things devolved into bad singers and cheesy actors.
And its easy not to use certain stamps but not using certain banknotes could be a bitch.
there is a damn good reason for needing the blocklist and that is to see if any sites that dont deserve to be blocked are being blocked, and that the government does not use this to block sites that have nothing to do with kiddie porn.
People in free countries should have the power to ensure their government is working correctly and not abusing its powers.
because most of these turned out to be duds. Because if the media covers the fact that all the investigations returned nothing, they will look really damn stupid, for covering fake scandals for 8 years.
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Well id hate to sound "elitist" but i dont think you understand the republican party's agenda.
The republican party wants to lower taxes for the rich and make the poorpay for it.
Usually when they lower taxes there is some nominal decrease for the poor, BUT the poor soon pay that back many times over, because usually after taxes are lowered deficits ensue, the government starts borrowing and those loans must be payed back with interest from taxes in the future, which are usually less progressive than before.
I like the salon, I read it daily or every couple of days. They are pretty informative, although they sometimes print (or upload) some stuff that is quite outragous.
Right wing media functions on the same principle as infomercials.
Their customers arent the viewers but the people pushing the message. They make their money by ensuring that certain types of messages are continously pushed at the people.
Truly left wing media does not have that choice. There isnt some one that will make a lot of money if truly left wing agenda is pushed. So there is no one to pay for it. Sure most people will benefit. But that is the problem large groups of people have the collective action problem and cant take up media empires. Rupert Murdoch can.
It is true that Rush dominates the radio waves, it is also true that less and less people are listening to radio. So Rush is not on every damn radio station because people really like him, but because powerful people want him there, and they want him saying the things he is saying.
That being said there is another issue - what people call left wing media (CNN ABC, etc) is not really left wing. And if you use that definition left wing media is not doing that bad - i am sure in the nytimes they laugh at the ny post, and even after recieving hundreds of millions of dollars from a cult leader the washington times is nothing compared to the washington post (considered to be liberal for some bizare reason).
Truly left wing media is really rare and is usually actively resisted by powerful people including "left wing" media. Thus Naom Chomsky although he sells a lot of books, and sells out every public appearence he does, will have a lot of trouble getting a column published in the "liberal" ny times.
they are just dishonest.
The record companies may not make that much (for record companies) but there are shitload of people associated with the system that are not musicians, that are pulling down millions.
And all that money goes as expenses for the record companies.
So yeah a lot of money is being made.
that 90% of records dont make money claimis complete bs.
How expensive is to manufacture a damn music cd anyways. Its pretty cheap considering its being made by a huge volume repeat player.
And those cds are being sold at costs 20 - 40 times their value.
Then how do all those albums fail to make money after selling thousands of copies? Well its easy - its what economists call rent seekers - various execs, agents, promoters, advertising execs, etc that have secured nice little chokepoints in the distribution chain and demand payment whenever something passes trough them.
So there you have it. The whole distribution chain is due for a shakeup. Hopefully the internetwill help with that.
file sharing is not a perfect alternative of radio because there the record companies cannot controlwhat you hear.
They can makeit avilable, yes but it is your choice to dl it and lsiten to it, they cant force it on you.
so how is this gonna work?
If they give complete deregulation all the signals will destroy each other, and clear channel would make sure theirs are the strongest.
Ifthey still somwhow sold licences clear channel would buy them all.
Maybe they can institute some kind of bandwidth sharing, but that usually requires modified radio recievers. So every one will have to buy a new car radio.
Because noone will listen to radio.
Clear channel declared, like every one else that anti monopoly restrictions keep them from truly serving their customers.
Now that they have a virtual monopoly radio sucks really badly, and fewer and fewer people listen.
I am sure clear channel execs are blaming internet filesharing for all of this as we speak.
It is interesting how senators are willing to help the little auto mechanic, from being locked out by the large manufacturer, but not the little pc software developer from being locked out by the large software developers.
What is it? Is it because auto mechanics is an easier bussiness to understand? Are they better organized? Or is it because the small automechanic is an old institution.
is wishful thinking
that watches monty python...
and now for the bonus question:
which nation's people are the worst tennis players in theuniverse. The answer will appear on your tv screen. If you do not want to see the answer please turn your tv upside down.
what the hell are you gonna use the cpu cycles for?
CPUs are getting faster and faster, and since processor intensive tasks are getting exported to cards what the hell do you need your cpu for.
If you are using that card that means that you are watching a movie so you are probably not doing anything else processor intensive.
I guess there are some porfessionals that need to do processor intensive tasks in the background but thats not true for most people.
I guess microsoft needs to work extra hard to ensure newer versions of windows soke up even moreprocessor power.
I agree.
:).
When i first came to america long time ago, when i first went into scool they gave me a test designed to check if i was able to function in american society (to see whether i needed special classes). I felt pretty confident, knowing english well and all, but at one point they gave me a sheet with pictures of coins, and asked me which ones i should use to make 1.52. Well i spent ten minutes looking for numbers and after that i declared that there was something wrong with those coins
But I dont think thats of much concern for the US govt. Unfortunately i dont think they care much about immigrants that need to count their change.
They do care about foreigners using us dollars for trade and investment, and those people mostly use large notes. I read somewhere that the hundred dollar note is the most used us banknote abroad.
Well old presidents are safe. There isnt much complaint about people like Lincoln, Washington etc. But when you get into culture things get tricky. Having Mark Twain on our money would be great as a representation of what America has given to the world, but once we put Mark Twain on our money some people will start insisting on some more divisive or just bad choices. For example religous leaders will come up. Some more questionable writers will come up. Remember the stamps? It started out with putting great americans on our stamps and then things devolved into bad singers and cheesy actors. And its easy not to use certain stamps but not using certain banknotes could be a bitch.
yes there is and i am a big proponent of it.
there has been no asteroid debree or a crater found in tunguska.
There already is a movie based on solaris it is russian, by tcharkovsky(sp?) and i have always menat to see it when i have 4 hours free.
anyway it is quite amazing sodenbourgh (sp?) decided to do a remake on that, it doesnt look like hollywood type novel.
But of course one thing typical of hollywood is to remake foreign classics.
anyway i hope its good and not as melodramatic as erin brochovitch.
blah blah blah
You should read the findings of fact of jackson's opinion, and tell us why what judge jackson discovered microsoft to have done is ok.
But what you fail to understand is that microsoft ultimately uses the government to enforce its power.
Microsoft'spower is basicly based on copyright law that is enforced by the government.
So your anarchism doesnt work here.
All we are asking is that if the government insists so much on enforcing their copyright laws they should enforce their antitrust laws as well.
there is a damn good reason for needing the blocklist and that is to see if any sites that dont deserve to be blocked are being blocked, and that the government does not use this to block sites that have nothing to do with kiddie porn.
People in free countries should have the power to ensure their government is working correctly and not abusing its powers.
yeah i cant waittill dredge reveals a scandal about the bush presidency.
Themost worryingthing isthat the same bob woodward is now busy writing puff pieces for the president.
There were plenty of potential scandals today much bigger than watergate that have not been investigated.
because most of these turned out to be duds. Because if the media covers the fact that all the investigations returned nothing, they will look really damn stupid, for covering fake scandals for 8 years.
he resigned and he was pardoned.
One could hardly say that justice was done, or that the whole truth was revealed.
yeah i doubt 1650 is accurate. i was just repeating it from the above poster who said himself that the dates may be wrong.