OT: Television Biased to Success Stories

Dunno, seems they're very happy to take from you and give to someone more "needy". Of course there is a "handling fee".

Hi, D from BC. Everything is bought and sold, including business articles from "3rd party, dispassioned" business writers who openly state that they have no bias and are just reporting. Nothing, it seems, is beyond being bought and sold.

So you just go to your local paper, talk with the business section folks about getting an article done like that, pay them some money, and let them write a nice puff piece.

Works great. Been there, bought what the public 'thinks' is unbuyable, and gotten the nice puff piece.

That's why you see so many more of those than of the other kind. Money flows in one article-direction there.

Capitalism.

Jon

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Good luck with that. Hint: Don't ask before the holidays.

My lawyers are either family or VERY long term friends ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Ah..follow the money..

There are, just a lot fewer.

In the end the guy wins, but along the way he pretty much alienates everyone, so it's not too far from your concept.

Tim

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Like I said, good luck with that. I do hope your next rommie's name isn't Bubba.

Perhaps he was inventor that dreamed of being a lawyer.. :P

The biggest technology failure story I can think of is the Avro jet. This was a kickass piece of late 50's tech that got sh*t canned.

'The cancellation on 20 February 1959 known as "Black Friday"[16] immediately put 14,528 Avro employees [17] out of work as well as nearly 15,000 other employees in the Avro "supply chain" of outside suppliers'

Makes me wonder if the Avro program kept going if Canada would have turned into a leader in fighter jet production.

..maybe those people are too embarrassed to expose themselves..

Yes. If something doesn't make sense on its face, then there is money and power being exchanged somewhere. When you find those details, it will again make sense. So just apply this universal ointment anytime you don't have another explanation. 100% of the time you will have it nailed.

All of human history in a nutshell.

If you apply 4.7V across a 4.7k ohm resistor and observe 1mA of current, figure Ohm's law is working and all is right in the world. If you do that and see 2mA, start looking for a source of money or power that is interfering. :) You'll probably be right. A rock drops, good 'ole physics in operation. A dropped rock floats to the ceiling... yup, look for money or power being exchanged and figure you are being had somehow. Odds are, your pocket book was taken while you were staring upwards at the rock.

Jon

Not in my experience. Most are more than a little willing to share their stories, if asked. Even if not asked.

A year ago I stopped over at a shop my son liked to visit -- a gaming and scifi book store kind of thing. The owner and I started talking a little and by the end of that first day I knew that his wife wanted him to quit, that they had a baby on the way, that he was taking at most $900/month out of the business with the rest going to pay rent and so on, and pretty much knew by then that he was going to have to give up. And he still had his doors open and we'd only just met that day.

About 10 years ago, I talked with Parker (one of the VPs at Intel corp) and got an earful about the stupid mistakes Intel had made in their memory business. They had to pay out $250 million dollars (yes, a quarter of a billion) to make reparations to their distributors merely because they'd dared to announce a new memory at the wrong time of the year -- causing big disties to sit around, stupid-like, holding a bag of now-worthless memory they couldn't sell. And he hadn't even met me, before. I was just a lowly employee coming up to talk after a lecture to an audience. We'd never met before, or after.

An over-abundance of overwhelming embarrassment doesn't really account for the news bias.

Jon

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Ah, so, when the warmingists claim a huge rise in temperatures over the next few decades, but the temperature over the next few years actually declines, then you should follow the money? Sounds correct to me!

Charlie

Definitely follow the money. If you do, you will find climate scientists nearer the bottom of the heap and a few elite and powerful at the very top with vastly different interests in play and the power to act, besides. Works there, too.

Jon

Dissipated :)

The other night, there was some "survival" goon on some talk show, and he was talking about how to get water from guano-contaminated puddles on a deserted island. He says you can't drink it, it will make you sick, so you take an enema of it. He didn't say where he got the enema works. He also said you can get water from fresh elephant dung, and showed a clip of how he did it. It was one of those times I wished I could have talked back to the teevee; I'd say, "Why didn't you just ask the camera crew to give you some of theirs?"

Cheers! Rich

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Give us a head up when you get through at least one incarnation of a = doomed project that will not die.