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Making Wisconsin Progressive Again
All I know is what I read in the papers
Sun, 10/25/2009 - 12:53am | xoff
The Journal Sentinel editorializes:
Citizens always complain that their taxes are too high. And they are.
That surprised me. My wife and I are citizens, have never complained that our taxes are too high. And they aren't.
So what's going on? I thought Paddy McIlheran wasn't writing editorials any more. Did I get that wrong?
This is the same editorial that says it's time to limit direct democracy by citizens, who have shown they can't be trusted and might vote for radical things like sick leave for workers, as Brewtown Gumshoe points out.
Oh, well, at least I read it for free. I'd be really upset if I paid for that drivel.
Tags: "Incendiary" Hosts Taken Off Election Anchor Chairs
Mon, 09/08/2008 - 1:36pm | mal contends
What makes a political host incendiary? Holding Republicans accountable and asking questions.
These sins of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews have caused MSNBC to take the two politicos off the anchor chairs, leading the cable channel’s election coverage.
Olbermann and Matthews are apparently not aware that their mandate is that of a stenographer and propagandist delivering insipid descriptions of GOP-approved narratives.
These sins of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews have caused MSNBC to take the two politicos off the anchor chairs, leading the cable channel’s election coverage.
Olbermann and Matthews are apparently not aware that their mandate is that of a stenographer and propagandist delivering insipid descriptions of GOP-approved narratives.
When Will They Ever Learn?
Mon, 09/01/2008 - 9:21am | GlobalGirl
Everything McCain does (from picking the head of Alaska's National Guard to be his running mate to avoiding George Bush at the convention) has a ring of desperation to it as he faces an electoral landslide.
But politicos seem just as desperate to portray the doomed McCain campaign as on the verge of a breakthrough or a game changer.
Now it’s Hurricane Gustav that will help the ailing McCain.
Hurricane Gustav “presents the candidate with an opportunity to show that he would be a different kind of president than Bush” (Washington Post).
John McCain can't stop the storm, but his campaign is determined to make the most of it by using it to rebrand a new generation of Republicans as leaders who govern effectively and rise above partisanship (Time Magazine).
But politicos seem just as desperate to portray the doomed McCain campaign as on the verge of a breakthrough or a game changer.
Now it’s Hurricane Gustav that will help the ailing McCain.
Hurricane Gustav “presents the candidate with an opportunity to show that he would be a different kind of president than Bush” (Washington Post).
John McCain can't stop the storm, but his campaign is determined to make the most of it by using it to rebrand a new generation of Republicans as leaders who govern effectively and rise above partisanship (Time Magazine).
'Radical' plan now 'stunningly ambitious'
Tue, 07/17/2007 - 8:08am | xoff
Steve Walters, the Journal Sentinel reporter who decided that providing health care to everyone in Wisconsin was a "radical" plan, has backed off a bit.
In Tuesday's story on the state budget, he writes:
It's a stunningly ambitious plan"Stunningly ambitious" is a step in the right direction. But he still couldn't stop himself from writing that
Republicans say its $15.2 billion annual cost would make Wisconsin the highest taxed state.while failing to note that Democrats, backed by an independent study, say it will save more than $1-billion a year compared to current health insurance costs.
The Dems' 'radical' health care plan
Mon, 07/16/2007 - 11:52am | xoff
Every now and then, someone just takes the words right out of your mouth.
In this case, it's the Brew City Brawler, who notes how the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel allows its Capitol reporter to characterize the health care plan passed by State Senate Democrats. He expresses my sentiments exactly.
The Brawler asks, as many have in the past, whether "reporter" Steve Walters is paid by the Republicans to propagandize on their behalf.
Others have speculated in the past about whether he was hoping the GOP would hire him. But why would they put him on the payroll, when he's already doing their PR for free?
It makes you wonder, assuming someone reads his copy before it goes to print, whether the editors agree with his assessment. They clearly made no effort to make his story objective. (Or would it turn out that the editing process added the word "radical"?)
What if they held a convention and no one covered it?
Sun, 07/01/2007 - 12:49pm | xoff
Three decades out of the newspaper business, it's still hard sometimes not to second guess decisions on coverage. This weekend's coverage of the Wisconsin Democratic Party's convention is a case in point. This weekend's non-coverage would be a more apt description. The event drew 700-plus delegates, but virtually no media attention, even in Milwaukee, where it was held. The state's largest newspaper, once the Wisconsin paper of record, almost ignored it entirely.
The Associated Press did file a complete story Friday night, carried in abbreviated form in most outlets which used it, headlined, "Gov. hints at re-election bid as state Dems rail on Iraq war" The most complete version, ironically, seems to be in the Winona Daily News, on the Minnesota side of the Mississippi. But the papers and TV stations which used it mostly cut it to about five paragraphs.
Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, whose newsroom is about five blocks from the convention site, carried nothing in Saturday's paper and very little on Sunday.
Here is almost the complete JS print coverage of the two-day event: