tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990055.post111455019705174323..comments2024-01-26T01:52:53.198-05:00Comments on PolySigh: What's The Matter with Thomas SowellPhilip Klinknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15559722693896372701noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990055.post-1115965040686570242005-05-13T02:17:00.000-04:002005-05-13T02:17:00.000-04:00Penetrating Broadcast Journalism N...Penetrating Broadcast Journalism<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>New Look at Broadcast News and the News Documentary<BR/><BR/>As Fred W. Friendly, pioneer News Executive, has said, <BR/>“What we don’t know can kill us.”<BR/><BR/>Now in print— A Red in the House: The Unauthorized Memoir of S.E. Fleischman <BR/><BR/>Experience the glory days of the TV news documentary as recollected by an award-winning writer-producer-director…<BR/> <BR/>During my thirty years in Network News, my colleagues were the pioneers in broadcast journalism—Walter Cronkite, Fred W. Friendly, Edward R. 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Holhut, Correspondent<BR/> The American ReporterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990055.post-1115829152095279532005-05-11T12:32:00.000-04:002005-05-11T12:32:00.000-04:00"On the face of it, appointing blacks in top gover..."On the face of it, appointing blacks in top governmental leadership positions seems like progress. However, if the blacks in power within the Bush administration advance the same hurtful practices (especially to low-income working people of all cultures, races and ethnicities), then they serve a hurtful master"<BR/><BR/>I find that comment incomprehensible. So what you are saying then is that all minorities have to think alike and if they choose to think differently than your preferred agenda, that is really retrograde? Apparently the only appropriate attitude is strict identity politics in which people think according to the group in which they are cast. Rice is Secreatary of State. To say that is not progress is simply crazy. This kind of thinking exemplifies why so-called progressives have so little influence in America. <BR/><BR/>I don't know who Bunny Greenhouse is, but to say that she is more important than the Secretary of State, simply because she apparently shares the "correct" political views is just perverse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990055.post-1115541852788178952005-05-08T04:44:00.000-04:002005-05-08T04:44:00.000-04:00On the face of it, appointing blacks in top govern...On the face of it, appointing blacks in top governmental leadership positions seems like progress. However, if the blacks in power within the Bush administration advance the same hurtful practices (especially to low-income working people of all cultures, races and ethnicities), then they serve a hurtful master. Colin Powell fares better than Condi Rice in his ability to actually disagree with the president's policies (albeit covertly). Rice continues to demonstrate mainly a willingness to do anything and everything her white male bosses tell her to. That's not progress. There is a name for real progress (in terms of black management positions) within the administration: Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse. Now that's a black woman full of real power that knows no partisan bounds, that knows no master. Read up on her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990055.post-1115135065502990222005-05-03T11:44:00.000-04:002005-05-03T11:44:00.000-04:00Wile I'm certainly not a Bush fan, it's hard to ar...Wile I'm certainly not a Bush fan, it's hard to argue that appointing having his two most important national security posts held by African-Americans is nothing more than symbolic politics. You can say a lot about Bush and you can certainly argue that his overall policiers have not been helpful to African-Americans, but to be fair, you have to give him some kudos for trusting his national security apparatus to Powell and Rice (and not making a big deal out of it either.)<BR/><BR/>And think about what you are saying. What if you had predicted in, say, 1963, that one day the Secretary of State and the National Security Adviser would both be African-American and one would be a woman to boot. People would have locked you up (in the South, they would have lynched you). So, to say this is just symbolic politics is sort of silly. I'm not arguing that we have reached the nirvana of racial equality, but you have to grant substantial progress and you have to give Bush some credit IMO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990055.post-1114563172082715902005-04-26T20:52:00.000-04:002005-04-26T20:52:00.000-04:00You start out talking about racial inequality, and...You start out talking about racial inequality, and a long quote and a couple of stream of consciousness sentences later you end with a silly little putdown of a President whose two Secretaries of State have been African-American. Some day your visceral dislike of President Bush will seem ridiculous to even you.joefohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01420768615589869025noreply@blogger.com