Last night’s show with Cynthia Leiu and Jeff Bryant was great! We had a really fascinating discussion about education reform and how it affects your kids and community. You can listen here.
Category: Media
Tonight
Tuesday, July 19 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking Susie | Cynthia Liu, Jeff Bryant andSusie Madrak discuss education policy and what parents need to know about the for-profit charter schools movement. Listen live and later on BTR.
This should be good, so I hope you can tune in. Call with questions or comments to 646-200-3440.
Rupert
You can watch his testimony before Parliament here, right now:
Lack of demand
Thought for the day
Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, every wrongful act committed in Britain is also a violation of American law, because NewsCorps is a U.S.-chartered company.
Write your congressman to insist these acts be prosecuted in the U.S., too.
Last night
Fun conversation with Culture of Truth last night. Listen here!
Tonight
On Virtually Speaking at 9pm EST, I will be co-hosting with Culture of Truth, author of the very funny Bobblespeak Translations.
As always, you can call with questions or comments at 646-200-3440.
Heh
Email I got from an astrology list today:
As a former writer for the London tabloids, I can tell you this: everyone knew this crap was going on. There are relatively few newspapers that are not involved. Once again we have some evidence that the horoscope is the most honest part of the newspaper.
Irony
They had a post on the Washington Post website last week about long-term unemployment and asked people how they coped. They asked you to include your phone number for a possible story.
So I got this call last night and the reporter (or intern, not really sure) asks me a lot of questions, then asks if I’d be interested in writing a weekly dispatch about being unemployed for the Post.
“I assume this is unpaid?”
He allowed that it was.
“Then I’m not interested. Don’t you think that’s ironic? I mean, I’m an unemployed writer and you’re asking me to write, for free, about being unemployed?”
He cleared his throat. “Yes, I hear you. But we can’t really afford to pay for that.”
“That’s not true, I know that your parent company is doing quite well. Kaplan’s still making a lot of money. And as a writer, I’m not interested in being part of a content farm where writers churn out content for your company for free. No, I’m not interested.”
“I understand. Really. Good luck.”
Heh. Turns out I was wrong, and his paper and their parent company are losing quite a bit of money. I think he’s the one who’s going to need it.
Not a hooker
You would think people would know by now to ignore Murdoch-owned publications, but no.