Rand Paul: Who are [the 40 million uninsured in America]? . . . a third of them make more than $50,000 a year, a third of them are elligible for medicaid but haven’t figured out how to apply for it, and about 20% of them are not citizens. A good percentage of them are also uninsured for a short period of time.
Daily Archives: 8 July 2009
Sen. Jim Demint on Auditing the Fed
Washington Post publisher apologizes for auctioning influence
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post’s publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper’s journalists.
A flier surfaced last week promoting a plan to charge $25,000 to sponsor one of a series of dinner parties that would include off-the-record conversations with Post journalists and access to Washington insiders. The series was canceled Thursday.” (Read more from finance.yahoo.com)
The Year The Newspaper Died
“As you may have noticed, newspapers have had a rough 2009. But you may not quite appreciate the magnitude of the collapse.
So far this year:
* 105 newspapers have been shuttered.
* 10,000 newspaper jobs have been lost.
* Print ad sales fell 30% in Q1 ’09.
* 23 of the top 25 newspapers reported circulation declines between 7% and 20%.
What happened?
The economy collapsed and advertising budgets went with it, accelerating a process already underway: the Internet’s erosion of the entire newspaper industry.” (Read more from businessinsider.com)
Don’t let these sob stories fool you. We are in a golden age of journalism. The old guard is just upset that they losing money and influence. Telling the truth is beginning to matter.
Stanford Researcher: Pundits are full of shit
This guy’s theory explaining the pundit’s failure is very generous. At least a portion of Television’s failure should be attributed to their dutifully taking the government line: Iraq has WMD’s, the stock market will rise to the moon, etc.