Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Monday, June 14, 2010

Euro Journalist miss most of the point as to why CNN has lost half their viewers!


Forbes.com - Magazine Article
How Not To Become A Casualty Of The Next Media Revolution
Albrecht Enders and Andreas Koenig 06.14.10, 2:45 PM ET

According to Nielsen, in the first quarter of 2010 CNN had roughly half as many prime-time viewers as it did a year earlier. It's easy to forget that CNN was revolutionary when it was launched 30 years ago. It was the first network to bring real-time war coverage into our living rooms. However, as a recent article in New York magazine pointed out, old media institutions have discovered that "it is practically impossible to refresh an entrenched brand at the speed required by our rapidly metastasizing digital culture (and wait till we're all watching videos on our iPads!). CNN took two generations to go from vanguard to rear guard. It should consider itself lucky. AOL and Yahoo!, both now in the throes of their own frantic rethinks, only got one."

These two Swiss and German writers do a fine job of academic research for their article. It is populated with many trees of reasons why CNN is faltering so radically, but because they seem to share the same political point of view, the article missed the whole forest! People, not only Americans, are sick and tired of the failed statist viewpoint that CNN and most media put forth. Until most media outlets start being honest and at least say what is opinion and not skewing fact with biased news edits, the literate public is going to get more and more fed up and turn to the alternative news sources that meet their needs!

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