Clay Shirky is Right: Newspapers' Death is Journalism's Loss

It is always sad to see time overtake any institution or business. You don't see many blacksmith shops these days. I remember when ice was still delivered to my grandmother in Stamford.



Faxes all but eliminated many courier services and email is putting a hurt on the Post Office.



Online shopping is infringing on the local stores for many things. Shopping online does not burn your gas or miles and can be done anytime. Can you even have your milk delivered each morning with your paper?



Where can I buy film for my Polaroid any more? Everyone is going digital and printing at home.



Let's remember that progress for all will always spell doom for some who cannot adjust to the new methods. Journalism is not dead, they are just moving to embrace new technology. The expense of printing something that will be in tomorrow's trash will spell the death of newspapers as we know them soon. eBook readers are here. Print magazine can't be too far behind as broadband and computers become more wide spread. We can't keep killing trees. Who knows what will cause the demise of the internet but someday, something better will come along and so it goes...until the sun burns out or we all kill ourselves with the latest means of destruction technology brings us.



We call it progress.
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Jon, You're Wrong. It <i>is</i> a Game, and You're a Player!

I see you don't understand yet. Perhaps I can help. Cramer, entertainer that he is, is still billed as an expert on finance and CNBC want's you to believe he knows what he is talking about. Given his past he should and people believe this. Cramer's antics can be funny and showman like but they are still his brand of marketing to "sell" Wall Street.



Stewart, on the other hand is not "selling" anything ( forget the show's sponsors ) except his brand of humor. He is the first to point out that he is not a journalist but a comedic entertainer. All comedians pick on the political and social topics of the day....what else is there? You can't talk as long as Jon has without hitting a few nails on the head. That does not convert him into a journalist. He is just an insightful comedian enjoying a lucky streak. He is also enjoying all this notariaty because people are fed up with hearing about the "condition" of Wall Street from those who purport to be actual journalists but who failed to tell the truth while selling the same snake oil.



CNBC is there to educate, Comedy Central is there to make us laugh. Don't get confused again please.
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Victoria Jackson On Fox News: Obama Is A Communist, Rush Limbaugh Should Run The Country (VIDEO)

My gosh! Victoria Jackson IS as dumb as she sounds !!



She is not a character actor...she is just being herself. At least she can be funny without making any sense.



Points out a typical attitude about Republicans and those who have wealth. "I got mine, you can't have any" They can afford excessively high health care...the rest of us are supposed to die so our remaining wealth filters UP by way of high bills and foreclosed homes that will be bought up by wealthy investors when the prices bottom out.



For the wealthy and Republicans wealth should flow only one way...Up to them. For them, majority is only those with net worths in the millions. Rest of us are just in the way or to be used as tools to run their factories...the ones not yet sent oversees that is.
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Tim Geithner, CNBC, and the Second Coming of Known Unknowns

I suppose much of this not knowing comes from the original bail outs engineered while Bush was in office. You remember...$700,000,000,000 with NO OVERSIGHT !



We have a new administration and some new people in congress who should be re-writing that bail out to include transparency as to what was done with EVERY DOLLAR given to the banks and to AIG etc.



How can anyone complain when they granted such broad discretion when dolling out billions of OUR money to swindlers and bad business men?



If the greedy banks don't like it, make them pay back the money NOW !
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Yell at Congress !

"Re Elect No One. Replace Congress before they destroy America"

Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged

I just started a "worst legislation award" humor of course. None of this mess is funny however, so perhaps I should add a "just plain stupid" award for the dumbest actions by an elected official.



I could not resist the monkey bill for my first target. This proves that dumb does not belong to any particular party.



http://www.reelectnoone.com/content/bestandworstlaws/february-2009-monkey-bite-law.html



I hope you get a chuckle and share with your friends...and enemies !
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Promoting Doubt: Bill Maher on the DVD Release of <i>Religulous</i>

I think Bill Maher and myself are joined at the frontal lobes.



Almost without fail when a topic arises I have arrived at the same answers Bill would...almost always.



He has his own tone no doubt. But then so did the late, great George Carlin. Let's not forget the outlandish and seemingly cruel insults by Don Rickles who both had them rolling on the floor.



That is what comedy is and each successful comedian has his/her own signature style.



What Comedians like Maher, Jon Steward, George Carlin, and many others bring to the table is thought. More than just making you laugh, they want you to think at the same time. Nothing does this better than controversy. Why else are politicians such fodder for the joke writers?



I want to see this movie. I wish I could enjoy Bill's show but HBO costs money and I don't have the spare dinero to tune him in these days.



Keep it up Bill, Jon and the spirit of Carlin where ever you are.



Paul Kruger

www.ReElectNoOne.com
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