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For readers of the Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona. Comment and discuss. Be nice, now.
A local newspaper is important to holding a community together, so it carries the responsibility of making good choices for the community. I'm an optimist, and I figure that if we become more critical readers and hold the editors accountable for what they're doing, including when they're doing right, we can gradually help make it better.
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- Steven Ayres
- Professional writer, editor, musician and communications professional in Prescott AZ
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— Martin Luther King, Jr.
— Horace Mann
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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5 comments:
Hooray! The penguins have landed!
I want to go back to a comment I made a while ago about the management of a society's common resources.
Maybe we could make some progress on health care by reframing the debate. It seems to me that question that underlies a lot of the shouting is whether or not the health of the American people is a common asset that should be managed in common.
The answer to that question for any given American may depend on whether or not that person believes that the good health of Americans in the aggregate has advantages to any individual American.
So what's it going to be, people? Are we all individually responsible for our individual health? Or is the health of all our people important enough to merit our joint effort?
Has anyone else noticed that Rush Limbaugh routinely alters the playback speed of interview clips from people he doesn't like to make them sound chipmunk-like?
It's just enough to make them sound ridiculous without being an obvious alteration. If you only listened to Rush, you could be forgiven for thinking they really sound like that. Appalling tactics.
He did it yesterday to Obama and Barney Frank.
BWB: I'm not at all confident that there's any political traction to be had in the idea that "the good health of Americans in the aggregate has advantages to any individual American." It's a good and true thing, but ultimately altruistic, and Americans are no good at that.
What we do understand as a society is lower prices for a group, and that's where the higher good meets low self-interest.
Further, a public health system should make us more responsible for our individual health, since unnecessary cost in the system costs us all. Make it a pocketbook issue.
BWB: I hadn't heard about the sound tracking trick, but for years O'Reilly has been distorting photos of convicted liberals to make them look wrong. Maybe Limbaugh just picked up that idea and ran with it.
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