Monthly Archives: June 2009
Health care reform to fatten and delight the rich
Judging from the way the health care debate is shaping up around Capitol Hill these days, whatever reform eventually emerges — if, indeed, any ever does — promises to be the realization of every insurer’s wildest hopes. Measure by measure, … Continue reading
Filed under civics 101, commerce, man of letters
Press lets Bell-Boeing fly the coop on Osprey
What, in the name of all that’s sacred in basic journalism, caused the News & Observer’s Washington correspondent, Barbara Barrett, to miss the target on Wednesday’s military piece about deployment of the Osprey to Afghanistan? Here’s a dramatic story packed … Continue reading
Filed under commerce
Factory farming rewards few, dooms all
A standing ovation goes out to UNC epidemiologist Steve Wing for connecting the dots so unmistakably in his op-ed essay, “Raising animals and rising threats,” published into today’s News & Observer. With ominous clarity, he sketches out the menacing risks … Continue reading
Filed under civics 101, man bites bear
Defining public relations … almost
My earlier post of May 29 , which touched on the issue of mislabeling propaganda as public relations — Capstrat and its BCBS storyboards being the illustration at hand — might have left readers begging the question, “So, Andrew, what … Continue reading
Filed under commerce, public relations
Walk the walk, don’t talk it
Phone toting dog walkers, consider yourselves on notice. Your roaming minutes are running out along with your furry companion’s patience. The habit of chatting on a cell phone while walking one’s dog has become all too common. It’s not at … Continue reading
Filed under man bites bear, spleen
