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16486 [lbo-talk] NYT on French unions -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >One reason Clear Channel invests in radio is >that they don't have to make massive profits from their radio stations, >since it reinforces their other profit-making divisions like concert venues. Huh? Clear Channel's radio operations made $1.2 billion on $3.5 billion in revenues in 2005 <http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/fetchFilingFrameset.aspx?dcn=0000950134-06-004754&Type=HTML>. That's a helluva profit margin. The only place the word "concert&qu ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 3 13:18:20 PDT 2006

16487 [lbo-talk] NYT on French unions -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >No, media control was not the key issue, or else Pacifica could be calling >out mass rallies in New York, LA, New York, DC and San Francisco every >weekend. According to Arbitron, WBAI has an AQH - listenership in the average quarter hour between 6 AM and midnight - of less than 8,000. We ain't gonna be calling out no mass demos on that. KPFA is a bit better - not quite 10,000. It really hurts to type those numbers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 13:09:59 PDT 2006

16488 [lbo-talk] Israel, Ireland, and South Africa -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >>But there's not much accumulation of any kind going on in SA, as >>you've pointed out yourself. > >Sure there is: superexploitation. We just had a conference on it, >and the papers are up at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs (under 'economic >justice'). Join us. Near-0 growth rates (you keep saying the official stats overestimate growth, and the official stats are pretty dismal) and low rates of investment do not signify accumulation in any significant way. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 12:51:23 PDT 2006

16489 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter with New York City? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In my opinion, NYC (if not DC) should be able to regularly turn out >100,000 or so New Yorkers once in several months (if not matching >Paris in protest prowess), without counting on us hauling our tired >asses from Columbus, Kansas City, and the like. 8 million people >live in NYC, after all. We're Americans too. We don't do mass demos very often. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 12:30:48 PDT 2006

16490 [lbo-talk] ruling class -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >What the fuck is IRV and why are you spouting acronyms without >bothering to define them? Are you trying to suggest that only dumb >people wouldn't know what IRV is? There's this great little thing called Google. Enter "IRV" in its query box and you'll learn all you'd like about instant runoff voting. Should people define words you might not know too? Or just stick with the 850 words of Basic English? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 3 10:14:05 PDT 2006

16491 [lbo-talk] LRB Editor hits back -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - April 2, 2006 Editor hits back over Israel row London Review of Books stands its ground after being accused of anti-Semitism in an article attacking pro-Israeli influence on US policy Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor She is, in the words of her many admirers, the 'mater familias of London's liberal intelligentsia'. This weekend, however, Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, is on the defensive - speaking out for the first time in an escalating transat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 10:19:06 PDT 2006

16492 [lbo-talk] Israel, Ireland, and South Africa -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:monacojerry at gmail.com>Jerry Monaco >For instance intra-Third-World economic connections between >Brasil-India-South Africa is also looked at as a bad-deal by many >U.S. corporations. There was an article in a foreign policy journal >I read in the 1980s tht predicted such deals and said that they were >a danger to the U.S. which was why the author advocated a "slow" >transition in South Af ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 3 08:29:40 PDT 2006

16493 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter with New York City? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Wojtek posted a BBC story about immigrant rights march in New York >City, which says "thousands" demonstrated. Commenting on the same, >Democracy Now! says "tens of thousands" marched: ><http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/03/1318256>. >Whichever figure you take, the turnout is a lot smaller than in LA. > >Also, anti-war demonstrations on 18-19 March this year had a couple >of thousands demonstrating in New ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 3 08:07:58 PDT 2006

16494 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000

Ooops, wrong link on the show - I gave the link to Bartels' paper. The show is at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#050929>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 30 15:16:28 PDT 2005

16495 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000

Let me put in a special word for my interview with Larry Bartels <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf>. In that dry, academic poli sci way, he argues convincingly that cultural issues are not pushing the white working class to the right, and that people are more likely to hold both liberal (or conservative) economic and social points of view. Really worth a listen. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 30 15:15:46 PDT 2005

16496 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 30 15:09:33 PDT 2005

16497 [lbo-talk] Re: Kos on Marches (Doug Henwood) -- rank: 1000

Stuart Elliott wrote: >Doug Henwood says that Nathan Newman, David Corn, and Marc Cooper, >and others are wrong to criticize the ANSWER's role in the anti-war >movement because the demonstration "received sympathetic coverage >in all the major media." > >But Norman Solomon complains "if you relied on television for your >news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all. According to >the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 30 15:05:12 PDT 2005

16498 [lbo-talk] Kos on Marches -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Contrast the political accomplishments of the anti-globalization movement And these are...?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 30 14:08:55 PDT 2005

16499 [lbo-talk] the news biz -- rank: 1000

[from today's Romenesko] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 Editor: Should newspapers be owned by public companies? <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4930489> Some quotes from David Folkenflik's report (audio; no transcript) on Tribune's problems: John Carroll, former Los Angeles Times editor: "I have to say the job satisfaction and the wear and tear on the soul surrounded these issues of resources and constant cost-cutting. The Los Angeles Times is still very strong journ ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 30 14:04:21 PDT 2005

16500 [lbo-talk] chav -- rank: 1000

So could some of our Brit comrades explain when this "chav" thing hit? <http://www.chavscum.co.uk>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 30 13:12:44 PDT 2005