Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-) http://indrayam.com Anand Sharma's weblog: A peek into life through "my" bioscope Sat, 07 May 2011 19:50:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-) http://indrayam.com/images/favicon.gif http://indrayam.com en What am I missing? http://indrayam.com/archives/green/001298.php http://indrayam.com/archives/green/001298.php#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:37:59 +0000 anand http://indrayam.com/archives/green/001298.php

Sometimes I really wonder in all earnestness - Do people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and their likes on Cable think they're performing genuine public service by giving voice to what they think most of this country actually believes in (or better yet, wants to hear) or are they just parroting stuff cause they think that's what their political and ideological masters would want them to say on their show? Do they think they're anchoring a fact-based "news" program where a news is a news no matter what, especially when it does not fit their ideological inclinations or are they completely aware of the cherry-picking of facts that goes on in their "show" just so that it would conclude what they already believe in?

Will the real "news" anchor stand up? Or is it too much to ask for in a democracy, especially one which has been proud of its democratic heritage for more than three hundred years.

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Sometimes I really wonder in all earnestness - Do people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and their likes on Cable think they're performing genuine public service by giving voice to what they think most of this country actually believes in (or better yet, wants to hear) or are they just parroting stuff cause they think that's what their political and ideological masters would want them to say on their show? Do they think they're anchoring a fact-based "news" program where a news is a news no matter what, especially when it does not fit their ideological inclinations or are they completely aware of the cherry-picking of facts that goes on in their "show" just so that it would conclude what they already believe in?

Will the real "news" anchor stand up? Or is it too much to ask for in a democracy, especially one which has been proud of its democratic heritage for more than three hundred years.

]]> http://indrayam.com/archives/green/001298.php/feed/ "We have run out of backyards" http://indrayam.com/archives/green/001252.php http://indrayam.com/archives/green/001252.php#comments Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:50:00 +0000 anand http://indrayam.com/?p=1252 “For the last 100 years we built (coal) plants like this one. It takes crushed coal, ignites it to heat water that produces steam, and that turns a turbine and produces electricity. ... You build that smoke stack real high so that nasty stuff goes to someone else’s backyard. Well, we’ve run out of backyards.”
- Montana’s Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer

You're damn right about that.

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- Montana’s Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer

You're damn right about that.

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