So I suppose its not that bad, it’s not snowing here or in Boston either and i don’t have to sleep at the airport but chicagos is delayed so my pilot is late. I left at noon in LA and will be in boston at two-thirty in the morning. After which It being christmas eve and [...]
December 23, 2008
Categories: ALL, Blog, Opinions, politics . Tags: Airport, Boston, living wage, unemployment, work . Author: mastadonzq . Comments: Leave a Comment
Programming is what attracts audiences to television but advertising is the primary means of revenue generation for most networks and stations. In a situation when 1) specific broadcast programming is attacked for containing too much “skin and sin” by traditional family values groups, 2) advertisers are inundated with thousands of email, letters and telephone calls [...]
December 3, 2008
Categories: ALL, Communication, TV, Theory, non-fiction, politics . Tags: Advertising, Censorship, chilling effect, Networks, Programming, Skin and sin, TV . Author: mastadonzq . Comments: Leave a Comment
The questions
5. In the coming years Cable TV will face very real competition from the telephone companies for customers. Give the competitive advantages of each industry and the efforts both have made in Congress and at the FCC to deal with perceived inequities in the competitive landscape.
Comprehensive Examination Question #5
Andrea P. Fuller
I. Cable Industry
A. Competitive [...]
November 13, 2008
Categories: ALL, Theory, non-fiction, politics . Tags: Cable, Communication, politics, telephone, TV . Author: mastadonzq . Comments: Leave a Comment
Well this is it, the all important, all-consuming election of the century. Just everybody vote in your own best interest and we should be fine
November 7, 2008
Categories: ALL, politics . Tags: politics . Author: mastadonzq . Comments: Leave a Comment
This argument comes from the conflicting claims to authority in the city.
The politician’s job is to create the regime that will best promote the good life within the city.
In order to do this he must give the authority of the city to the ruler or rulers that would best promote virtue within the citizens.
However all [...]
November 7, 2008
Categories: ALL, Philosophy, Theory, non-fiction, politics . Tags: Aristotle, politics, Virtue . Author: mastadonzq . Comments: Leave a Comment