Charlie Rose

doodah  07/18/2011 06:41 PM Report

...he was a republican, wasn't he? I mean you. obviously, republican.?. right?

doodah  07/18/2011 06:37 PM Report

LOBBYISTS and PACS are directly responsible for the financial and banking catastrophe, so therefore, they do STEAL FROM CHILDREN.

And why would you want to defend them anyway?, are you that Jack Abrammoff guy? huh? huh? huh?

doodah  07/18/2011 06:33 PM Report

...hey, and if Santa Clause is a republican, then they (republicans) ALL can't be half bad (definitely better than those democrat Grinches).

There's two kinds of politicians, Good politicians (republicans) and Bad politicians (democrats). ..who woulda thunk it.

doodah  07/18/2011 06:28 PM Report

"2002-2008 debt went down". OK, you're right, Santa Clause is a republican; let's have a parade.

NeilMacCallister  07/18/2011 01:44 PM Report

You are incorrect on all counts, doodah.

When Republicans held the House and Senate (1994-2000, 2002-2006) stocks rose, and debt went down.

When Democrats held the House and Senate (2006-2010) stocks fell, and debt skyrocketed.

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And it is not "Lobbyists and PACS" continuing to argue for more future-destroying debt, ..it is Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.

Those people are all Democrat officials.

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And "..the lowest life forms"?? .. ..They are those who steal from children.

doodah  07/17/2011 05:07 PM Report

LOBBYIST$ and PAC$, are the lowest life forms in dress clothes.

doodah  07/17/2011 05:03 PM Report

That's, LOBBYIST$ and PAC$; they run the show; the full gambit

doodah  07/17/2011 04:55 PM Report

... courtesy of big $money$moolah$ LOBBYISTS and PACS.

..but they don't bother you, Unless they carry the democrat label.?.?

Ha!

doodah  07/17/2011 04:51 PM Report

@ NeilMacCallister 07/17/2011 03:57 PM

The republicans are doing the Same Thing. But no worries, we can all just vote.

NeilMacCallister  07/17/2011 03:57 PM Report

WARNING!! ..WARNING!!!

Someone has HACKED INTO our children's future!!!

Their money is flowing out faster than Wiki-Leaked intimacies!

Those Adderalled Democrats are snaking away with our children's entire economic future!!!

Who cares about the British royalties???

How about America's children????? ..How about US!!!

robdverity  07/16/2011 02:51 PM Report

Journalism parrots the obvious; which makes it largely irrelevant. In times of war they talk of war; never counter-balanced with a need for peace. Quite the opposite. They religiously report what the pols. say - who got us into the wars to begin with - thereby perpetuating the mayhem and destruction ad infinitum. We're down to only three at the moment.

Phone hacking? Just more evidence of journalism chasing the currency-at-hand. Causing pain? Causing wars? It's profitable. (Ask Fox news.)

jsup5  07/16/2011 06:45 AM Report

What i find unbelievable is the accusation that his organization hacked into Royal family members phones. I find this to be brave and bold.

JohnGelles  07/16/2011 05:44 AM Report

Doodah Doo ~

Thanks for the Haiku

Your pardon is in the mail and on the wire

You're in the groove below the fire

Hell is one flight up.

JohnGelles  07/16/2011 05:36 AM Report

The free press in a democracy is supposed to inform the voters of government corruption and incompetence so that on election day the self-correction of error is more likely than if government controlled the people's knowledge -- to prevent reform and needed change in the corridors of power.

Instead of heavy focus on the mission offered above, our free press spends it time in search of corporate profit for those in the news and advertising business.

To stay in business and compete for subscribers the trashy end of the business preys on celebrity, sex and bloody murder. Now a great press lord will be raked over the coals to get a dose of the medicine he's accustomed to give to others. He will not be accused of contributing to economic disaster by incompetence in the field of reporting the big political-economy picture. Rather, we will learn how his minions sought to violate voter privacy to satisfy voter appetites for sleaze and scandal.

On the other hand, in the case against Murdoch and Cameron, his stooge, we may find some juicy tidbits to help reform politics and improve reading and related human habits that have tended to promote monopoly in news to the detriment of a kinder Civilization among the cannibals we are.

News, as a force for popular wisdom and education, has failed to measure up to the miracles of science. If we tried, we could supply a top notch free education to every soul on earth with the scholars that we have connected to the curious via our best communicative systems -- like animated films.

Murdoch's trial by the very press he nearly conquered will not, however, advance the true mission of that industry. It will mostly try to teach us how not to spy on pain for profit. It may be a useful lesson. But it will not be the BIG one that we so desperately need:

..... HOW TO CRITIQUE THE POLITICAL ECONOMY TO PROMOTE LASTING PEACE, PROSPERITY AND PROGRESS AWAY FROM CANNIBALISTIC CAPITALISM TOWARD VOLUNTARY EMBRACE OF THE GOLDEN RULE AND PLURALISM WITHOUT SIN.

doodah  07/16/2011 05:33 AM Report

"egomania"! , Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

"stupid"! , Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

... I beg your pardon

SharkswithfrikingLazers  07/15/2011 10:39 PM Report

Why would I steal information from victims? Perhaps I am despicable? Perhaps I lack any common decency? Perhaps I have so much power (real or imagined) that I have few of the checks and balances on me that I should have?

Why as Prime Minister would I select a man with such a past as the Press Secretary? Has the balance of power so shifted that the fourth estate has the power of a Pharma and must now be inside the Cabinet?

Perhaps the "Dirty Digger" has made his name a reality for the last time and he can finally be forced to change his ways--especially at Fox News?

Come on press--save the press.

JohnGelles  07/15/2011 08:07 PM Report

..... ..... "I think Charlie Rose is awesome -- in the balance he achieves between the popular taste and the national and global agendas which really matter." --

..... ..... ..... Possible evaluation by this forum --

at least -- why else would they watch the show and write their thoughts?

..... They do it out of egomania -- stupid!

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I am convinced that CR Show's coverage of the Murdoch scandal is the best there is so far. Murdoch has entered the historical realm of Randolph Hearst and Henry Luce. He has committed crimes, less serious in my opinion than the crimes of Congress and its moneyed partners -- in creating lobby riddled law. But life goes on after giants take a fall.

The most serious bias in news reporting and opinion IMO is their attempt to avoid getting too far ahead of accepted belief too fast.

The accepted belief is that FDR's Second Bill of Rights is not affordable or realistic. Too few experts who thought otherwise were ever given time to make it fly.

So many other necessities of life have been given that same fate by the news industry. Can such bias be overcome?

I say YES.

If we had a good system for gathering REFORM opinion and condensing it for simulations such that self-correction of our systems had a better record, we would be on our way to better news and better use of free speech in the modern world.

Take global warming. The news industry treat it as a true of false issue.

It is rather an insurance issue.

There is some opinion that agrees we ought to see the insurance angle. We ought to see that the cost to move now to a hydrogen economy is tiny in comparison with the damage we might suffer waiting for absolute proof that the warming is both preventable and real.

Yet the news industry and its moguls are useless in this struggle.

Yes, it breaks my heart.

Murdoch? He is said to love newspapers. Does he love the truth? Does he love the people?

mikalis  07/15/2011 06:31 PM Report

The guy is a grumpy greedy old man with a son that is chomping at the bit. I hate fox news and wouldn't miss his "empire" if it were to fall. Why can't news be more about local events, rather than stupid celebrities. Have a newspaper just about them, but then one about real news. Have one about politics, one about entertainment etc. This really makes you think twice about what literature you read. I think Charlie Rose is freaking awesome!

REMant  07/15/2011 10:34 AM Report

It is an interesting story, but I doubt too if it has any American legs, tho I otherwise think the Bloomberg guy knows little of what he is talking about. We don't have that kind of tabloid news environment here anymore, altho I often think we are backsliding. It should prove salutary in the area of media monopoly. Tho, except for tampering with evidence, tapping ppl's phones and stuff like that, I tend to think Time-Life's and Reader's Digest's incessant marketing of ahistorical tripe far worse. I nevertheless expect liberals in both countries, like Burns here, to forget Murdoch's long association with them and castigate the conservatives. I was just waiting for the word Watergate to come up. Democrats who despise Fox News will undoubtedly try to stir something up. However, if they do that they are just doing what they profess to deplore. I've seen Clegg answering a lot of the questions on this subject and it should be remembered that the current government is a coalition.