Word: sloganeers
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...Aspen, Colo., is considering which new advertising slogan...
...invert Fox News's disingenuous slogan of "We report. You decide," you get a sense of how the traditional media regards their mission. It is, "We decide. You read." Or, "We decide. You watch." It is the smug view that we know what it is you need to know, and we're going to spoon feed it to you whether you like it or not. Granted, this view has been transformed over the last few years by the desperate quest for ratings and readers, leading to the ever greater prevalence of so-called "soft news." This is the principle...
...been somewhat of a rough week. Thursday?s sales announcements from retailers indicated a mass migration from Macy?s to WalMart (hence the slogan-borrowing above) as consumers showed signs of getting stingy with their money. And although productivity reclaimed its former glory Tuesday with a 2.5 percent hike after a contraction in the first quarter, that was mostly because producing companies got around to firing all the workers that were still manning halted production lines back in March...
...People like to say that Indonesians are so friendly and polite, but that kind of view seems to be nothing more than a leftover tourism slogan. There is a struggle going on, and it is being controlled by people in Jakarta?by the very same people who have done such things in the past. As I see it, there is no real leadership at present; there are just people with power. That students are now part of the democratic process is a sign of progress; indeed, the change we have seen can be credited to the younger generation. This...
...American anarchists, as the slogan goes, think globally but act locally. How local? Four years ago, a Eugene activist upset about the razing of some downtown trees deliberately vomited on the mayor. More recently, the "Anarchist Golfing Association" trashed a research project on putting greens conducted by an Oregon seed company, causing $500,000 in damage. "Grass, like industrial culture, is invasive," charged an anonymous e-mail from a Eugene library...