Comments on: Marketing the Army http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: JTMcPhee http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27876 JTMcPhee Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:20:01 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27876 Jeffwi, maybe the plan wasn't totally conscious (maybe it's part of that species death wish thing I keep ragging about.) But that notwithstanding, the Heritage Foundation-neocon-what-evers have done everything they can in the years they have had to poison the public mind. I don't have the time or the smarts to do like some of the Kossaks do, and track every painful appointment and the antecedents of the "crammee," but am I the only person who has noticed subtle and not-so-subtle biases infecting ALL the programming on Public Radio and Public Television? You name it, any "story" I listen to has one little subtlety after another that by polluting the discourse from what once was a relatively independent and somewhat authoritative source, has no doubt (in my mind, anyway) influenced the way a lot of people think, making them lean slowly, like the Tower of Pisa, a little more every year to the Right (or whatever a more accurate name for the people who have brought us to the present conditions should be called -- any suggestions?) The painful part is that it is all so subtle and slippery that my little pea brain, ever less retentive and pounded by so many other inputs, can't hold on to really trenchant examples. Maybe you have to be a Canadian to see things more clearly: http://www.friends.ca/news-item/3420 I did the following Google search: PBS NPR new president -- and the third item down looked to be right on point about how the Bush league appointees have scrubbed the brains of NPR and PBS, to ensure they in all their subtlety keep things moving in the Right direction (if they want to keep their jobs.) I hope the New Everything team has on its to-do list an early replacement of the SOBs who have been coloring public media Red for at least five years. Anybody know off the top of the head where the rocks that Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS, and Kevin Klose, president and CEO of NPR, crawled out frim under are located? So they can go find some other damage to do? Jeffwi, maybe the plan wasn’t totally conscious (maybe it’s part of that species death wish thing I keep ragging about.) But that notwithstanding, the Heritage Foundation-neocon-what-evers have done everything they can in the years they have had to poison the public mind. I don’t have the time or the smarts to do like some of the Kossaks do, and track every painful appointment and the antecedents of the “crammee,” but am I the only person who has noticed subtle and not-so-subtle biases infecting ALL the programming on Public Radio and Public Television? You name it, any “story” I listen to has one little subtlety after another that by polluting the discourse from what once was a relatively independent and somewhat authoritative source, has no doubt (in my mind, anyway) influenced the way a lot of people think, making them lean slowly, like the Tower of Pisa, a little more every year to the Right (or whatever a more accurate name for the people who have brought us to the present conditions should be called — any suggestions?)

The painful part is that it is all so subtle and slippery that my little pea brain, ever less retentive and pounded by so many other inputs, can’t hold on to really trenchant examples.

Maybe you have to be a Canadian to see things more clearly:

http://www.friends.ca/news-item/3420

I did the following Google search: PBS NPR new president — and the third item down looked to be right on point about how the Bush league appointees have scrubbed the brains of NPR and PBS, to ensure they in all their subtlety keep things moving in the Right direction (if they want to keep their jobs.)

I hope the New Everything team has on its to-do list an early replacement of the SOBs who have been coloring public media Red for at least five years.

Anybody know off the top of the head where the rocks that Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS, and Kevin Klose, president and CEO of NPR, crawled out frim under are located? So they can go find some other damage to do?

]]> By: JTMcPhee http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27889 JTMcPhee Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:20:01 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27889 Jeffwi, maybe the plan wasn't totally conscious (maybe it's part of that species death wish thing I keep ragging about.) But that notwithstanding, the Heritage Foundation-neocon-what-evers have done everything they can in the years they have had to poison the public mind. I don't have the time or the smarts to do like some of the Kossaks do, and track every painful appointment and the antecedents of the "crammee," but am I the only person who has noticed subtle and not-so-subtle biases infecting ALL the programming on Public Radio and Public Television? You name it, any "story" I listen to has one little subtlety after another that by polluting the discourse from what once was a relatively independent and somewhat authoritative source, has no doubt (in my mind, anyway) influenced the way a lot of people think, making them lean slowly, like the Tower of Pisa, a little more every year to the Right (or whatever a more accurate name for the people who have brought us to the present conditions should be called -- any suggestions?) The painful part is that it is all so subtle and slippery that my little pea brain, ever less retentive and pounded by so many other inputs, can't hold on to really trenchant examples. Maybe you have to be a Canadian to see things more clearly: http://www.friends.ca/news-item/3420 I did the following Google search: PBS NPR new president -- and the third item down looked to be right on point about how the Bush league appointees have scrubbed the brains of NPR and PBS, to ensure they in all their subtlety keep things moving in the Right direction (if they want to keep their jobs.) I hope the New Everything team has on its to-do list an early replacement of the SOBs who have been coloring public media Red for at least five years. Anybody know off the top of the head where the rocks that Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS, and Kevin Klose, president and CEO of NPR, crawled out frim under are located? So they can go find some other damage to do? Jeffwi, maybe the plan wasn’t totally conscious (maybe it’s part of that species death wish thing I keep ragging about.) But that notwithstanding, the Heritage Foundation-neocon-what-evers have done everything they can in the years they have had to poison the public mind. I don’t have the time or the smarts to do like some of the Kossaks do, and track every painful appointment and the antecedents of the “crammee,” but am I the only person who has noticed subtle and not-so-subtle biases infecting ALL the programming on Public Radio and Public Television? You name it, any “story” I listen to has one little subtlety after another that by polluting the discourse from what once was a relatively independent and somewhat authoritative source, has no doubt (in my mind, anyway) influenced the way a lot of people think, making them lean slowly, like the Tower of Pisa, a little more every year to the Right (or whatever a more accurate name for the people who have brought us to the present conditions should be called — any suggestions?)

The painful part is that it is all so subtle and slippery that my little pea brain, ever less retentive and pounded by so many other inputs, can’t hold on to really trenchant examples.

Maybe you have to be a Canadian to see things more clearly:

http://www.friends.ca/news-item/3420

I did the following Google search: PBS NPR new president — and the third item down looked to be right on point about how the Bush league appointees have scrubbed the brains of NPR and PBS, to ensure they in all their subtlety keep things moving in the Right direction (if they want to keep their jobs.)

I hope the New Everything team has on its to-do list an early replacement of the SOBs who have been coloring public media Red for at least five years.

Anybody know off the top of the head where the rocks that Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS, and Kevin Klose, president and CEO of NPR, crawled out frim under are located? So they can go find some other damage to do?

]]> By: Dan http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27875 Dan Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:53:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27875 While we're at it, let's create virtual <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2208000/" rel="nofollow">Mommies and Daddies</a> while they're away at war. While we’re at it, let’s create virtual Mommies and Daddies while they’re away at war.

]]> By: Dan http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27888 Dan Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:53:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27888 While we're at it, let's create virtual <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2208000/" rel="nofollow">Mommies and Daddies</a> while they're away at war. While we’re at it, let’s create virtual Mommies and Daddies while they’re away at war.

]]> By: Akira Bergman http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27874 Akira Bergman Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:32:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27874 Espenia; Thanks for the link. So the rot may have already started here. Espenia; Thanks for the link. So the rot may have already started here.

]]> By: Akira Bergman http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27887 Akira Bergman Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:32:28 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27887 Espenia; Thanks for the link. So the rot may have already started here. Espenia; Thanks for the link. So the rot may have already started here.

]]> By: Rachel http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27873 Rachel Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:51:19 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27873 I don't think there's that much difference between the "dumbness" of democracies now and those of a century ago. Remember "Remember the Maine"? It was the WMD of its day. William Randolph Hearst ran a newspaper empire that was the equivalent of Murdoch's Faux News. The period marked the beginning of a massive expansion in the US Navy and the Marine Corps, and the move to a more expansionist, imperialist foreign policy. Then, as now, unemployment was high, and there was a large underclass to distract with tales of military adventurism. Let's not pretend this is all a recent decline in standards. It's been going on for more than a century now. Politicians have looked to war as a distraction from other issues for a very long time, and the media have been very happy to aid and abet them because it sells newspapers/television etc. I don’t think there’s that much difference between the “dumbness” of democracies now and those of a century ago. Remember “Remember the Maine”? It was the WMD of its day. William Randolph Hearst ran a newspaper empire that was the equivalent of Murdoch’s Faux News.

The period marked the beginning of a massive expansion in the US Navy and the Marine Corps, and the move to a more expansionist, imperialist foreign policy.

Then, as now, unemployment was high, and there was a large underclass to distract with tales of military adventurism.

Let’s not pretend this is all a recent decline in standards. It’s been going on for more than a century now. Politicians have looked to war as a distraction from other issues for a very long time, and the media have been very happy to aid and abet them because it sells newspapers/television etc.

]]> By: Rachel http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27886 Rachel Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:51:19 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27886 I don't think there's that much difference between the "dumbness" of democracies now and those of a century ago. Remember "Remember the Maine"? It was the WMD of its day. William Randolph Hearst ran a newspaper empire that was the equivalent of Murdoch's Faux News. The period marked the beginning of a massive expansion in the US Navy and the Marine Corps, and the move to a more expansionist, imperialist foreign policy. Then, as now, unemployment was high, and there was a large underclass to distract with tales of military adventurism. Let's not pretend this is all a recent decline in standards. It's been going on for more than a century now. Politicians have looked to war as a distraction from other issues for a very long time, and the media have been very happy to aid and abet them because it sells newspapers/television etc. I don’t think there’s that much difference between the “dumbness” of democracies now and those of a century ago. Remember “Remember the Maine”? It was the WMD of its day. William Randolph Hearst ran a newspaper empire that was the equivalent of Murdoch’s Faux News.

The period marked the beginning of a massive expansion in the US Navy and the Marine Corps, and the move to a more expansionist, imperialist foreign policy.

Then, as now, unemployment was high, and there was a large underclass to distract with tales of military adventurism.

Let’s not pretend this is all a recent decline in standards. It’s been going on for more than a century now. Politicians have looked to war as a distraction from other issues for a very long time, and the media have been very happy to aid and abet them because it sells newspapers/television etc.

]]> By: Jeffwi http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27872 Jeffwi Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:37:36 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27872 Rick Turner: My thoughts exactly. I don't know enough to say that the dumbing down of America in the critical thinking department is the direct, intentional result of some malicious plan, but one has to wonder. Rick Turner: My thoughts exactly. I don’t know enough to say that the dumbing down of America
in the critical thinking department is the direct, intentional result of some malicious plan, but one has to wonder.

]]> By: Jeffwi http://jontaplin.com/2009/01/05/marketing-the-army/comment-page-1/#comment-27885 Jeffwi Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:37:36 +0000 http://jontaplin.com/?p=3349#comment-27885 Rick Turner: My thoughts exactly. I don't know enough to say that the dumbing down of America in the critical thinking department is the direct, intentional result of some malicious plan, but one has to wonder. Rick Turner: My thoughts exactly. I don’t know enough to say that the dumbing down of America
in the critical thinking department is the direct, intentional result of some malicious plan, but one has to wonder.

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