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  response to  Adam M Bright and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's post Mr. Personality

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  I read your article and when I came to this line I realized why I was so interested in listening to my Public Radio Station on the way home everyday for last three years. This fellow you mentioned had something to do with "it". What is "it" ? Well here is the line I focused on, "The result, the Peabody Award-winning radio show This American Life—still a revolution in its 12th year—has been widely credited with helping to mold the modern, conversational sound of public broadcasting." this line made me realize that the sound of public broadcasting I was so intrigued by from 2002 to 2005 was of his influence. I had an idea it ranged 12 years because its inception/dominance was at the helm of a former political party. I often would listen and discount the conversational dialogue and just focus on what I calld the underlying message to the topic. Often after listening I would be able to get the overall message. What made me most mad was that the message was not one I agreed with. I considered it a form of brainwashing. You I see by the awards consider it good. It I felt was only a variant tool of propaganda, you have a different perspectice I see. The public radio I felt was hijacked. I could only say this, often times I would see my world just as you intended me to. I made comparisons of my world here in Louisiana to others far away possibly oversees in third world countries. It was hard for the comparisons to be made, but they could be depending on ones ability to relate. However, I could always also see or "hear" the bend to a political point of view that was of the composer. Not often did I see an attempt to take to opposite side and transpose the points of view to help the other side gain perspective as to why the world is shaped in the fashion that it is. I give you much credit, I had no other channel to listen to, nor do I have many more ways of avoiding the same on my cable TV. I guess that in itself is deserving of award winning status. I will admit however that 2 of 5 days were something of an attempt to bring a balanced approach, if only half heartedly. :)

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  Commented on July 11, 2007 by - msjorden

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  Science

  response to  Patrick James's post Power In Numbers

  Power in Numbers

  I enjoyed the article very much. It helped me to understand some things I often wonder about. I wondered whether (when the predator example was used) if all potential victims were aware of the presence of danger or of just the pontential of danger. If utilizing the latest technology, the biods, or scouts, or whatever is being used to survey the environment are not aware of why they are being told to inform and monitor, it is understandable that they do for they have been given a reason to do so, regardless of if its true or not, as they have no need to know. They are just as the article suggests, tools used in large numbers to locate and transfer information. They do so wheter trained or programmed and ask not why. I feel much better knowing the science behind the practice. However, I still wonder which groups are patrolling and for what reason. I know now that it is not for me to know, nor is it necessarily for the scouts to know. Just knowing that their is a ryhme to the reason is enough for me.

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  Commented on July 11, 2007 by - msjorden

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  Politics

  response to  Simon Steinhardt's post Waste Management

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  I agree with the writer on the necessity for audit and accountability. It's what the SEC regulated corporation's where to provide the stock market research analysts with prior to the information age's total capture of information dissemmenation. My interpretation of the article is that auditing it is even less effective in the public sector than the private sector. The media's highlighting of examples of lack of market discpinary actions I consider the begginning. The few companies they the media allowed be used as examples ie. Worldcom and Enron where really examples of failures of auditing companies...ie Aurthor Anderson etc. Of course they spit themselves in half years prior to breaking these stories and watching the culprits scramble. It makes one wonder about the intentions of those who watch over the big picture and the timing of when they believe enough is enough. I see the public sector always lagging behind the private sector when it comes to reforms for the good of stockholders. Whereas the Worldcom and Enron segments where small compared to the amount of stakeholders/stockholders involved, when you allude to our whole national audit system as in need of strengthing prior to the govt. undergoing a Enron style meltdown I almost worry... If the writer believes that the nation is in the same dilema, then infact the media publicized scandals should make for easy comparisons to the average citizen. It also will make for a good argument for a change in leadership. If only it was so simple to accomplish!! If it can be accomplished as it was when the light was brought to those companies which were gross examples of ethics failures. Then the responsibility also exited prior to the need now for change ever so suddenly. I agree however, even those responsible to bring light to the failures, should also be held accountable, why now what about prior to Enron or Worldcom. The media was ill equipped to cause systemic change in the values we as a country and apparently they too were assuming present at the elite levels of financial dealings. The complexity of those failures eluded the auditing firms in the private sector. Now those at the helms of the public sector are going to have to do what needs to be done for even less pay. It is only right because only those that truly care would endeavor to accomplish such a task and only because they have no stakes in the process except that their children and grandchildren will benefit from the sacrafices of those dedicated government servants who know all to well that it needs to be done. Some who will do it merely from necessity as they know that it has to be done regardless of who claims to be able to ride herd on the process which may or not have been caused by the shepards to begin with.

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  Commented on June 27, 2007 by - msjorden