Comments on: Newsweek's 'Best Minds' http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/27/newsweeks-best-minds/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:38:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » (Rhetorical) Change They Can Believe In http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/27/newsweeks-best-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-15794 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » (Rhetorical) Change They Can Believe In Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:37:10 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=1599#comment-15794 [...] rhetoric. But it hasn't changed their belief. Here's historian and highly respected thought leader Jon Meacham just before the election: "It is easy--for some, even tempting--to detect the dawn of a new [...] [...] rhetoric. But it hasn't changed their belief. Here's historian and highly respected thought leader Jon Meacham just before the election: "It is easy--for some, even tempting--to detect the dawn of a new [...]

]]> By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/27/newsweeks-best-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Doug Latimer Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:38:42 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=1599#comment-164 No mention of "good advice" for the issue that trumps every other ... because it encompasses every other: the end of the world as we know it. This isn't ignoring the elephant in the room. This is ignoring the whole friggin' jungle. And Greenwashing 2.0 ... brought to you by Chevron, BP, T. Boone and all the other bastards who see gold in "green" ... ain't gonna do a damn thing about it. No matter how much warm and fuzzy propaganda is endlessly recycled on our TV screens and in the pages of the corpress. Given the above, I seriously doubt we'll make the changes necessary to survive ... we're kept ignorant, and many of us seem to have this perverse desire to remain so. But even if there isn't any hope, you have to act as though there is, don't you? Else, what's the point? No mention of "good advice" for the issue that trumps every other … because it encompasses every other: the end of the world as we know it.

This isn't ignoring the elephant in the room. This is ignoring the whole friggin' jungle.

And Greenwashing 2.0 … brought to you by Chevron, BP, T. Boone and all the other bastards who see gold in "green" … ain't gonna do a damn thing about it.

No matter how much warm and fuzzy propaganda is endlessly recycled on our TV screens and in the pages of the corpress.

Given the above, I seriously doubt we'll make the changes necessary to survive … we're kept ignorant, and many of us seem to have this perverse desire to remain so.

But even if there isn't any hope, you have to act as though there is, don't you?

Else, what's the point?

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