The Larger Struggle-Getting attention on long term issues
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media | No Comments »Sorry kids, I know I said I would stop writing blogs while I write a book called "Balanceology", that summarizes the nearly 300 blogs I've written in the past 4 years to you grandchildren and family members. When news pops up ...
Letters to the Media January 1994 (part 3)
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media | 2 Comments »OK kids, here is the last part of the letter to George Will in 1994. My last blog on this subject was on February 14th in the Feb. archives called "There's a herd of Pachyderms in the room" Setting & showing ...
Letter to the media January 1994 (part 2)
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media | No Comments »(Continuation of my letter to George Will in 1994 and his comment the "only ideas have large and lasting consequences".) The following is your grandpa's list of ideas; A News Media Rating System. (News program to be labeled) "S" News ... Sensational News. ...
Letter to the media January 1994 (part 1)
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media | No Comments »This letter happened to be to George Will, but I sent similar letters to the TV anchormen, (they were just men anchors in those days), and to other noted columnist. George's office sent a nice letter of acknowledgement. (You kids should understand celebrities ...
The 4th branch of government.
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media | 2 Comments »I don't know if you'll buy into this kids, but for years I've considered the TV news media, the press corp, and the Op-Ed columnist the 4th branch of the US government. Back in the late 1980s I wrote an editorial about the news ...
The 9/11 Hole … it’s still there!
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Tolerance | 4 Comments »60 Minutes did an update on the rebuilding effort at the 9/11 Twin Tower Trade Center site recently. After over 8 years, no buildings have been constructed. The ceremony for the 20 ton granite cornerstone with the inscription; "The Enduring ...
America is Not Yet Lost
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media | 2 Comments »A little over a year ago, a Russian professor predicted that the disintegration of America would occur by 2010. The Russian National Security Agency, FAPSI, said it will begin with wealthier nations withholding funds from America. Paul Krugman began his article "America ...
Back to the drawing board
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »After looking into the difficulties and and the huge effort to set up a dedicated Forecast Channel built around charts & graphs to get accurate data on the world and national mid to long term problems, I've concluded that it ...
The Geezers’ Crusade
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, TV News Media, family | No Comments »Before we push forward on our dedicated graphics TV channel, I will fill you in on the comments I made on a David Brooks NYTimes articles ... The Geezers' Crusade. Here it is: "I hope old geezers like myself can make a difference. I'm 79 ...
It’s better to trust … than not trust
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Statistics, TV News Media, family | No Comments »What do you do kids when you feel you can't trust your government and you can't trust many of our influential business leaders? Where do we turn for truthful information? In a recent article by David Brooks called; "Politics in the age of Distrust" he offers ...
Do older Boomers still read the newspapers?
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Journalism, Statistics, TV News Media | 4 Comments »I'm one generation older than the oldest Baby Boomer. Do you older Boomers still like reading the daily newspaper over coffee in the morning and relax on Sunday with all the information in the thick Sunday paper? The "Tablet" is ...
Do we need a journalist?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Journalism, TV News Media | 2 Comments »What are we going to call our imaginary TV station dedicated to following the status of our nations most important issues and the world's most important issues? The station, to be effective, has to attract an effective segment of the general TV ...
Do Journalist still avoid graphs?
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Journalism, TV News Media | No Comments »Journalist are verbal people ... which makes sense. Verbal people write books and stories in print that are interesting, enjoyable, and educational. With the advent of the camera and TV, journalist had to combine their prose with pictures. But a ...
The Too Much Information Problem
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth, TV News Media | 2 Comments »Okay kids lets move onto one of our other blog subjects of interest. It is estimated that 1,000,000 books are written every year. And wouldn't you agree that it's next to impossible to review even the most miniscule part of the any of the scientific disciplines from the 100,000,000 ...
“The Young and the Neuro”
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, Tolerance | 3 Comments »David Brooks, hope you don't mind my using the title to your New York Times 10/13/09 article on the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society's conference. This is a subject that this of great interest to this blog. This blog is being ...
Newsweek article: Is Your Baby Racists?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, Tolerance | No Comments »I had just written my most recent blog; "Will We Experience a Wave of Tolerance?", when our new Newsweek arrived. In my blog I wrote that the most tolerant people in the world are new born babies. I was hoping the ...
Will we Experience a Wave of Tolerance?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Tolerance, consciosness | No Comments »Kids, is a wave of tolerance about to circle the globe? The most tolerant people on Earth today ... are new born babies. Down through the ages, parents quickly taught the young to fear the unknown. Our sub conscious mind ...
Something Important Just Happened-Civility
Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Politics, TV News Media | No Comments »Kids, your grandpa is a centrist ...who has been observing what happens to human behavior when people perceive that their life style may be threatened. The health care industry is a huge part of the US budget and reform and the cost ...
Why do journalist/politicians avoid graphs?
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth, TV News Media | No Comments »The Sustainability Revolution II Where do we begin? This is going to be a long on-going blog. Just getting started is the hard part. Grandma's father would tell our children; "If you go inch by inch it's a cinch ... if ...
Open question to whitehouse.gov
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Statistics, TV News Media | 3 Comments »How will the Obama team measure performance against the critical issues that are now on unsustainable exponential curves? Why do politicians & journalist try to verbally explain chart data ... instead of just using a chart? If pictures are worth a thousand words ... Then why aren't ...