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Re: Wearing Blackface, Sullivan High School Seniors Play Powder-Puff Football Game

jebuff — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:07:08 -0000

So the school offers up "not thinking" and unawareness of the historical context and meaning of blackface as excuses? Isn't that what school is for, to produce thinking people with an awareness of their historical context? These are high school seniors. What the hell have they been learning at Powder Puff High?

Re: Flood in China | PBS NewsHour

jebuff — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:12:18 -0000

In imperial China, one of the sure signs that the dynasty had lost the "mandate of heaven" was loss of control of the waterways and irrigation systems. How will the Chinese cultural memory interpret this year's flooding? How nervous is the CCP?

Re: Rupert Murdoch Turns National Geographic Into Fox News, Lays Off Fact-Checkers

jebuff — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:51:24 -0000

So you know better than scientists at NASA, indeed 99%of the world's scientific community? Mind if I ask for your credentials? PS being a Fox News watcher isn't going to cut much credibility.

Re: Foxs Cavuto Hosts "Pro-Profiler" Wayne Simmons To Claim U.S. Should Profile Students From Muslim Countries

jebuff — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:50:56 -0000

"Wayne Simmons, a recurring guest on Fox News who claimed to have 27 years of experience with the CIA, was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he lied about his service.
Simmons is accused of falsely claiming that he worked as an "outside paramilitary special operations officer" for the CIA from 1973 to 2000. On Fox, this was often shortened to "former CIA operative."
http://money.cnn.com/2015/1...

Re: Jeb Bush Says His Brother Was Misled Into War By Faulty Intelligence. That’s Not What Happened.

jebuff — Tue, 19 May 2015 13:18:00 -0000

By focusing on the intelligence debate inside America, the author misses a critical point. Outside The US, it was widely understood by the public that the Bush rush to war was built on bogus claims. Those of us livingin Europe, for example, knew about the UN reports that there was no WMD buildup because we had a media that reported it. Americans were willing to be mislead because we were angry about 9/11, and the public and the media embraced the macho, Hollywood response.

Re: Dangerous Minds | Diana Rigg stars in bizarre German ‘stag films for Avengers’ fetishists’

jebuff — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:08:48 -0000

Rechecked my facts. My bad... Of course Honor Blackman was a very handsome woman. Julie Stevens was in there too somewhere, but she was cute. Anyway, the "Emma Peel" name part is true, even if I can't figure out quite why the earlier sidekick (whichever one she was) didn't seem to have enough of it.

Re: Dangerous Minds | Diana Rigg stars in bizarre German ‘stag films for Avengers’ fetishists’

jebuff — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:43:36 -0000

"Emma Peel". From "M Appeal". Short for "Masculine appeal". One of the critical elements the casting people were looking for in the new sidekick after the previous one (not particularly attractive) left the earlier show.

Re: Amphibious landing operation in the Arctic

jebuff — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:24:26 -0000

Per-Vidar - Norway's "sosialist/marxist government"??? If you don't understand the difference between socialism and Marxism, it's hard to take anything you say seriously. Have you been watching the American Fox News?

Re: On To Life 2.0

jebuff — Mon, 24 May 2010 06:34:20 -0000

Rafat - well deserved kudos for all you've accomplished with paidContent. Have a great voyage, and by all means let me know if you're coming through Paris.

Re: Our Next Event: The State Of Gadget Media, Apr 21, NYC | paidContent

jebuff — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:11:50 -0000

Rafat - will this be live-streamed as was the last conf?

Re: http://jackyan.tumblr.com/post/352597734

jebuff — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:59:45 -0000

Time to get rough... O' is broadcasting a warning to wimpy Dems and the Loony right party.
"59 or 60, don't make no difference to me, or the hopeful majority. Get on board or get lost."
Not a moment too soon, Mr President.

Re: The Future of Communication (My view)

jebuff — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:44:30 -0000

Understand & agree. Never the patient fisherman, I.
If you have a sec in Paris, let me know & we'll grab coffee. Best

Re: The Future of Communication (My view)

jebuff — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:37:10 -0000

Thomas - fascinating as always. Your "first step" discussion considered how companies can "eavesdrop" on new media conversations, and eventually how to participate to increase their understanding. In addition to pitching a client on having a better "snapshot" of what's happening now, it seems to me more interesting and profitable to have the client consider the obvious benefits of actually sponsoring & building an ongoing "community". Surely the greatest potential of these new tools is to build lasting discussions between individuals and "trusted" institutions the same way that personal blog networks develop. "I read him, commented, he read mine, commented, now we have dialogues, we're in each others' neighborhood".
Other key elements in the discussion include clients dealing with a whole new level of transparency, their business ethics and handling criticism, and the other real responsibilities inherent in taking that step to build a community, the members of which become real stakeholders in the company/institution.

Re: Watch This: The New ‘Amelia’ Trailer

jebuff — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:40:46 -0000

Captivating story, great cast... is the writing up to it, or did they dumb down / romance up? I'll see it to see how they handle the tragic end (no spoiler - everybody knows, right?), but am a bit skeptical given the cheap emotion in the trailer.

Re: dgp

jebuff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:34:50 -0000

Love the tone of the text. Less enamored by the crawly bug. Not sure my idea about what a digital growth plan is is the same as the next guy's. Do you want to give some guidance on this?

Re: My Life: Journalism to Digital Strategy

jebuff — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:46:59 -0000

Fascinating.
I have the image of you very calmly advising the captains of the old media ships "Iceberg, dead ahead", but nobody on deck is hearing you.
Your own professional experience shows how one reporter can adapt, but what about the industry as a whole? Behind the well-outed 'death of newspapers' story, there's a huge crisis in ad revenue, but the old groups still pretend to the outside world that they can somehow carry their old structures and overheads across to digital without a complete overhaul.
When the industry shareholders get wind of this, that the "crisis in journalism" has wider implications going to the core of media companies, then the perceived value, and the stock prices, of big groups, including my former employer and your current one, and going to tank like savings and loan stocks did last year.
Wonder how many media CEOs & CFOs have quietly re-enforced their golden parachutes over the last 24 months? How many will announce their early retirements over the next 12? (Having suddenly realized how much more time they'd like to spend with their families.)
The form of your video really pushes the envelope, amusing but on the edge of distraction.
I too love the little wave from the flight check-in desk lady at the end.
Sorry we won't get a chance to meet in Paris. Next time!

Re: Incumbent Ahmadinejad 'Wins Iran's Presidential Election' As Opposition Protests | AHN

jebuff — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:41:34 -0000

Conservative incumbent stokes paranoia, inflames populist national pride with incendiary rhetoric, lambastes opponent as "unpatriotic". And wins reelection.
Oh dear, Iran. Couldn't you find a better example than America 2004?
Iranian opposition now looking for young, charismatic "anti-fear" candidate for 2014, middle name preference, "Bush".

Re: Jimmy Wales: NY Times Should Clarify About iht.com

jebuff — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:58:22 -0000

Brilliant. We're talking about footnotes; branded, traffic producing, digital footnotes.
Would the dinosaurs at the NYT understand this problem better if it was explained to them that they were deleting all the footnotes to the old IHT stories (branded up as NYT-IHT in some more perfect world) in every library around the globe?
The silence from the NYT is deafening.

Re: Reporter to NY Times Publisher: You Erased My Career

jebuff — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:50:37 -0000

If this goes uncorrected it's unforgivable.

Re: Save Mobuzz - MobuzzTV

jebuff — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:35:18 -0000

Filled with such hope over what - we hope- is happening in America today, hope some of that HOPE will rub off on Mobuzz. Have sent something along via paypal. Will put a link on my facebook and trust friends will chip in.
If the structure fails, the spirit lives on. Keep the faith.