- No Recommendations yet - go add some!
- I'm disappointed in Leonard Lopate (I've already gotten over being incredibly disappointed in Mike Daisey; that's old news.)
This powderpuff interview didn't ask any of the questions it should have. No, we are not all corrupt. Yes, journalists should be held to a higher standard of truth, which means, at the most basic level, not deliberately lying, and on higher principle, exposing one's own biases to allow the audience to judge for itself.
Daisey harmed his (good) cause by his chicanery; it allowed people to ignore his message. Leonard Lopate, you undermined not only that cause but the whole institution of journalism by not calling him out on his dishonesty.
HUGE fail.
- foodaggro, Roach -- no, no, NO. No criminalization of sex, no criminalization of abortion, no criminalization of having babies.
Society needs to support its children, whether just born to a teenager, sexually active, pregnant, whatever, with decent affordable healthcare -- and that includes fertility control.
No amount of prosecution or persecution stops people from having sex.
- Couldn't care less what Guiliani thinks. About anything.
- Does anybody else remember, during the water shortage, "if it's yellow, let it mellow / if it's brown, flush it down"?
- Government should give businesses incentives to hire people with low-level criminal convictions who will otherwise be on government assistance. Save us money in the long run, and probably save people's lives as well.
- Another rich person who sees nothing wrong with raw capitalist for-profit healthcare. It's not stupid -- it's simply callous. And it should be condemned and boycotted.
- In response to Sylvia Mendel: none of that even begins to justify protecting a serial child molester from facing justice, or harassing the innocent victims and their families.
Nechemya Weberman is a sexual predator, and the community chose to shield him while he raped children.
HE IS NOT THE VICTIM. And neither are the people who tried to intimidate those poor girls.
Fear of possible anti-Semitism is not an excuse for condoning rape. You disgrace your community by implying it is.
- My sympathies to the family and friends of Jacintha Saldanha.
Malicious and self-interested mischief on the part of Mel Greig and Michael Christian has apparently pushed a woman to suicide.
In any sane society, these two would be shunned by all decent people. Humiliation is not entertainment. Bullying is not fun. Their actions may not be criminal, but they are disgraceful.
- Michael Bloomberg has managed to insult just about everyone by his poor judgment and worse management of this situation.
More evidence (as if we needed it) why cities -- and states, and countries -- are better off NOT run by tone-deaf billionaire CEOs.
- Karol, you are 100% right on this. I wonder if it will lead you to perhaps reconsider some of your other political endorsements.
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