Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Obama Job Creation
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/dining/08crackdown.html?_r=3
Putting gourmet restaurants out of business
Putting gourmet restaurants out of business
Why Journalists Are Liberals
A journalism major writes:
"Gender and sexuality studies classes ostensibly teach you to analyze the world with a critical lens, focusing on how one’s gender or sexuality impacts their life. Some classes deal with theoretical issues; others focus on literature, history or religion.
"But I could have benefited from more politics, history and literature classes—to learn more about the world in general, rather than one tiny little sliver of the world. There’s a difference between what I thought was “cool” to learn about at the time and what has actually proved useful in life. The lowbrow-yet-stylish topics we discussed — whether or not Eminem is sexist and racist, for example — will be out of date 10 years from now. I probably could have learned a lot about sex work and labor abuse by reading magazine and newspaper articles on the subjects. But learning more about colonialism? Globalization? The World Wars? Important books? Religion? Supreme Court decisions? That knowledge would have provided such a better foundation for me as a writer than what I think I received from gender studies classes."
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-confessions-of-a-regretful-gender-studies-student/
If all you've learned is how to make the world a better place for women, gays and lesbians, then everything you write as a reporter is from that point of view. There are no stories about entrepreneurs taught in these schools (except Mary Kay?) because entrepreneurs are usually straight men.
"Gender and sexuality studies classes ostensibly teach you to analyze the world with a critical lens, focusing on how one’s gender or sexuality impacts their life. Some classes deal with theoretical issues; others focus on literature, history or religion.
"But I could have benefited from more politics, history and literature classes—to learn more about the world in general, rather than one tiny little sliver of the world. There’s a difference between what I thought was “cool” to learn about at the time and what has actually proved useful in life. The lowbrow-yet-stylish topics we discussed — whether or not Eminem is sexist and racist, for example — will be out of date 10 years from now. I probably could have learned a lot about sex work and labor abuse by reading magazine and newspaper articles on the subjects. But learning more about colonialism? Globalization? The World Wars? Important books? Religion? Supreme Court decisions? That knowledge would have provided such a better foundation for me as a writer than what I think I received from gender studies classes."
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-confessions-of-a-regretful-gender-studies-student/
If all you've learned is how to make the world a better place for women, gays and lesbians, then everything you write as a reporter is from that point of view. There are no stories about entrepreneurs taught in these schools (except Mary Kay?) because entrepreneurs are usually straight men.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Last light bulb factory in US closed - EPA sent jobs overseas
The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month
What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
Invented at GE, the CFL requires that each bulb be hand blown in order to twist the glass tube into a spiral. A Chinese entrepreneur named Yan had workers in China sit beside furnaces and bend the glass by hand. Even with the low-wages there, the first attempts were very expensive, clunky and flickered when turned on, he said. But no one could improve the process.
The business prospered and Yan's factories in China employed as many as 14,000 - not so far off from the 40,000 glass blowers that Hammer had once imagined would be necessary. With new automation techniques, Yan is seeking to cut the number of his employees in China, where wages are rising, to 5,000 by year's end.
Today, about a quarter of the lights sold in the United States are CFLs, according to NEMA, an industry association. Of those, Yan says, he manufactures more than half. Someday soon,
Yan says, he hopes to build a U.S. factory, though he so far has been unable to secure $12.5 million in government funding for the project.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html
What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
Invented at GE, the CFL requires that each bulb be hand blown in order to twist the glass tube into a spiral. A Chinese entrepreneur named Yan had workers in China sit beside furnaces and bend the glass by hand. Even with the low-wages there, the first attempts were very expensive, clunky and flickered when turned on, he said. But no one could improve the process.
The business prospered and Yan's factories in China employed as many as 14,000 - not so far off from the 40,000 glass blowers that Hammer had once imagined would be necessary. With new automation techniques, Yan is seeking to cut the number of his employees in China, where wages are rising, to 5,000 by year's end.
Today, about a quarter of the lights sold in the United States are CFLs, according to NEMA, an industry association. Of those, Yan says, he manufactures more than half. Someday soon,
Yan says, he hopes to build a U.S. factory, though he so far has been unable to secure $12.5 million in government funding for the project.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Why has nobody been fired for bad reporting on Katrina?
On CNN five years ago today, Paula Zahn spoke about “very discouraging reports out of New Orleans” about “bands of rapists going from block to block, people walking around in feces, dead bodies floating everywhere. And we know that sniper fire continues.”
In her column published September 3, 2005, in the New York Times, Maureen Dowd referred to New Orleans as “a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning.”
http://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/katrina-and-the-myth-of-superlative-reporting/
In her column published September 3, 2005, in the New York Times, Maureen Dowd referred to New Orleans as “a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning.”
http://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/katrina-and-the-myth-of-superlative-reporting/
Women Outearn Male Counterparts
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/01/cities-where-women-outearn-male-counterparts/
In 2008, single, childless women between 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities, with incomes that were 8% greater on average, according to an analysis of Census data by Reach Advisors, a consumer research firm in Slingerlands, N.Y.
The trend was first identified several years ago in the country’s biggest cities, but has broadened out to smaller places and across more industries. Beyond major cities such as San Francisco and New York, the income imbalance is pronounced in blue collar hubs and the fast-growing metros that have large immigrant populations
In 2008, single, childless women between 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities, with incomes that were 8% greater on average, according to an analysis of Census data by Reach Advisors, a consumer research firm in Slingerlands, N.Y.
The trend was first identified several years ago in the country’s biggest cities, but has broadened out to smaller places and across more industries. Beyond major cities such as San Francisco and New York, the income imbalance is pronounced in blue collar hubs and the fast-growing metros that have large immigrant populations
Friday, September 3, 2010
This Always Happens
Trapped Miner Finds Himself in Another Tight Spot After Wife Meets Mistress at Vigil
He should have been frank and earnest from the beginning. With his wife he should have been Frank, with all other women he should have been Earnest.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/02/trapped-miner-tight-spot-rescued-wife-meets-mistress-vigil/
He should have been frank and earnest from the beginning. With his wife he should have been Frank, with all other women he should have been Earnest.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/02/trapped-miner-tight-spot-rescued-wife-meets-mistress-vigil/
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Obama Plan Succeeds in Fighting Illegal Immigration
The mortgage crisis and ensuing economic slump have slashed jobs in construction, tourism and other sectors that are the mainstay for low-skilled Latin Americans. Immigrants already in the U.S. are struggling, and word of their hardship is dissuading those back home from flocking to the U.S.
"People don't want to come now; they know the economy is bad," said Braulio Gonzalez from Guatemala, who has been scraping by as a day laborer outside Los Angeles.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882304575465742670985642.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5
Obama had to destroy the economy in order to keep out the immigrants. There must have been a better way but I suppose it was above his pay grade.
"People don't want to come now; they know the economy is bad," said Braulio Gonzalez from Guatemala, who has been scraping by as a day laborer outside Los Angeles.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882304575465742670985642.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5
Obama had to destroy the economy in order to keep out the immigrants. There must have been a better way but I suppose it was above his pay grade.
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