Jay Rosen Rightly Calls Newspapers eWalls "Milking The Paper" Gimmicks

Tweet from Rosen:
@jayrosen_nyu: It's called "harvesting." You. admit your newspaper has no future. And you milk the remaining years of profit in print. http://t.co/xKh1mec
End messsage:
My point is that I've tried to give the NYT a reason for me to subscribe since since they started their paywall, but what I found was a horrible downgrade in intelligence and reporting, except for the usual suspects  (Krugman, Nicholas for two.) 
A feminist blog recently noted a recent NYT report that seemed more of a promotion of the makeup industry than a news feature.  My SO showed me that.  We laughed except we really felt like crying.
About a year ago we ran into a report at Th Times that promoted "Slushies" as the new sports drink, but it turns out that the linked scientific study only promoted non-caloric ice-slurries over cold water before exercise, noting that it allowed exercisers to go 20% longer before suffering heat freeze in an indoor warm exercise chamber on treadmills, no replenishment allowed.

The 20% increased the ability to treadmill  for the slurry only to 50 minutes over 40 for the same amount of cold water,  but a NYT report told us that meant that we should drink a three hundred calorie (I'm guessing and that's more than the NYT did and will do under their paywall scam)  to enhance your 40 min workout.  To Ms Gina Kolada's credit, she did link to the original scientific study and collaborated with the head Aussie scientist of the study (name unremembered). She also  linked to the original study which is the only reason I knew the details of the original study which didn't match the promotion of 300 calorie drinks from the local quickie mart facility.

My point is that all we asked this year was that the NYT and other paywall newspapers beat Ms Kolada's crazy Slushy report so I can pay them.

Instead we see a downgrade.

NYT & most other pay wall papers have shown a lowering of standard  and an extreme move to the right since their paywalls were installed.

It is telling that the NYT fired their ethicist Mr. Cohen, just days before their paywall went up.

Apparently they pretended that their paywall would help them improve their reporting,  and he only learned it would be the opposite and objected.  I don't know for sure.

(Other intelligent columnists jumped ship in the last weeks of free NYT proving the move was more World Trade Center disaster than an improvement of a news system and subsequent reporting.) 

I thought recently that the NYT was trying to take over the WSJ readers pocketbooks. (They are more affluent you know, but my daughter, in trying to save her family, graduated ) as an accountant, subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, turned 24, moved out, and forgot to move her paper subscription.)
 
All I ask is that the NYT beat the WSJ in non propoganda in the twenty articles I pick up a month. So far they are losing. I will not trust any paywall until I find one that deals w/ reality rather than sucks up to the assumed "more affluent" right. Till I contact my kid and
see if she isn't using her internet approvals, I am, like you, stuck,  like you, stuck in a world of propoganda when dealing w/ most MSM.

To any news source:  Please. give. me a reason to believe in you. Don't turn to the right.

And, Bloggers, Don't follow the NYT and move to the right of Murdoch's WSJ.  Then I will follow you.

Texas agency censors scientific report to remove references to reality

Perry's TCEQ fudges environmental change report to hide sea level rise.

See report:

http://bit.ly/nayTXR

Massive 15-year study finds no link between cell phones, cancer

See: http://bit.ly/pJ3uvE

Al Gore: Steve Jobs Prepared Apple for his death

Had good people installed.  Pushed them to do things their way after he was gone

See report:

http://bit.ly/oLB5HI

Global Warming: Sceptics' Arguments Over Climate Change Studied But Effect Not Big

A study partially funded by one of the Koch brothers (but also Bill Gates) has found that factors which true climate change skeptics bring up have been found to not be large enough effect to skew results of decades of studies.

Also that radical climate change deniers act more like lawyers than like scientists and look for arguments to win a battle of words rather than truth. 

See Guardian report.  http://bit.ly/nDtlT1

Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan Is Only the First Step to 30% National Sales Tax He wants.

The Current front running GOP. candidate insults our intelligence with his 9-9-9 tax plan now, but he really wants to segue to a 30% national sales tax all of which Bloomberg BusinessWeek writer seems to like even promoting it as good for the poor, though, sales taxes are shown to be the most regressive types as poor people must spend a greater percentage of their income. 
Plus the wealthy can get goods from abroad w/o the onerous sales tax more easily and so can certain shady types quicker than you can say "black market".
So then you have to collect VAT taxes again likely paid only by honest people plus add on first $40k free plans and added tax on homeowners and you get the kinds of incredibly complicated tax filings that are making people tell horror tales in some VAT using countries.
BusinessWeek was much better before it got that Bloomberg name put in front.
BTW added tax for home ownership? Right now, even, after the train wreck of the housing market what your house is worth is partially supported by the tax incentive that comes with ownership. 
Do the "FairTax"  really want to halve the value of Americans' homes again? (Full disclosure: I don't own a home but I do have relatives that do, and I care about them.)
BTW did you notice what purchase no one talks about taxing?  The purchase of political power through campaign donations.
Hmmm, I wonder why. 
(Telephone rings at Bloomberg BusinessWeek.)
"Hello Mr Koch!
Sure I have time to talk!"
http://bit.ly/pNMiYV

SIRTE Falls to #Libyan Rebels. Gadhafi Possibly Captured or Killed

Some rebels say captured, some say killed, and no one knows for sure.  Plus they've been over optimistic before over such claims
See SFGate report:  http://bit.ly/nRlYn4

Local GOP Chairman's Twitter Account Restored After Attack on Local Dems Using Fake Twitter Accounts

This much more than a local issue.
 
The GOP operates over the line repeatedly and the lies about reality as you can see in this case.

People have lost their voting rights by believing the lies of the GOP were just isolated thefts but with Koch bros and Hedge fund managers' $$ running the show it's not just isolated cases in more than the most superficial way, but an actual program against American families that pops up in various nefarious illegalities throughout the nation.

See:
http://bit.ly/ohRAEe

Confirmed: 84% would get tax hit under Herman Cain tax plan, study says

CA_Lady tweeted the other day that Herman Cain's tax plan amounted to a major tax hike to most Americans with stupendous tax cut to the wealthiest Americans. 
Though Republicans will scream tax hike about an extra penny the ultramillionaire Koch bros may have to pay to the govt for the wars to protect their oil empire not one R that I have heard  or read has informed their fellow dupes er Americans that Cain's plan is a massive tax hike.
Please tell me why job killer Romney,  phony evangelist Perry, and the rest or the crazy 3 hour tour GOP field won't call out Cain on his tax hike, but I see the house slave to the Koch bros and other super rich folk, Herman Cain, being set up to bear the yoke of the super rich even though he's nuts enough to think that we can build a moat with crocodiles between us and Mexico and put up an electrified fence (and then change his story repeatedly on whether those were jokes or not) being groomed by media and the money of fat cats to carry us into their version of slavery. 
Herman Cain will lead the 84% into a heavy tax slavery and his fellow GOP won't say an honest word about it.
Will you also be silent due to fear, greed, or meanness, or will you speak up while Herman Cain prepares to serve us for dinner for his new buddies?
It's a TAX HIKE DUMMIES!
See: http://bit.ly/pFEQN9

Gilad #Shalit & Hundreds of #Palestinians Relased from Captivity. Shalit Hopes Peace Abounds

A very class act, Gilad Shalit said he hoped that all Palestinian prisoners would be released and that he hopes the cooperation between the parties will lead to true peace in their nation.

I'm happy to know he's back with his family, and am impressed with his sensitivity.

If I remember correctly, earlier prisoner swaps didn't take this long, but a more belligerent attitude from the Israeli government as it took a hard right turn forced a longer captivity.

But see AJZ Hamas and Israel exchange prisoners

Last-minute 'gut and amend' laws bypass scrutiny in California

Gut and amend bills come about because the news media play as Republicans' right hand. If the news media would give equal time and credit then we might be able to get legislation passed in a better way.

Note the linked Sac Bee report on "gut and amend" Ids one (right leaning) Dem, the guv and head of the Senate both dems but refuses to note the Republicans no matter how biased they are. 

That's bad reporting. 

Republicans would have nothing done except taxcuts for the wealthy.

http://bit.ly/qfzOxh

David Cameron Outed As a Reptile

In the UK politics get fun. 
http://bit.ly/qMB9VC

Katherine Mangu Ward Bitches About Michelle Obama's Food Program

In the WaPo today this lady tears apart the first lady's arguments for healthier eating. As a wife and mother I cry BS.  Okay she has an argument that most poor women have access to an automobile, but I have been a poor #woman and I can assure you that the access depends on the purpose. If you're going for some McDonald's it's on, if you're going for lmustard greens "Hell no!"  Plus we know that most women have to work and most families demand a  new dinner every night and yo will realize that every news source prints BS.  http://wapost/qNppct

More Gas Pipelines Endangering California Residents

The whole system needs to be fixed, of course, but in CA maybe we should make a special effort to make sure PG&E lines are inspected.  I actually live in So Cali were we use another company, but I would agree to using state $$ for the job. Just don't let PG&E kill again.  Later, we can inspect the rest of the lines I. the state.  See SF GATE mobile for details on more bad PG&E pipe @
http://mobile.sfgate.com/sfchron/db_41686/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=73CQIqmN

Gilad Shalit, Israeli Prisoner Held 6 Years, To Be Released Soon

The word rippling through the Internet news is that the prisoner swap that will released an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 will be take place soon, encouraging his family who petitioned this happen years ago.

Netanyahu claims the unrest (known to the rest of us as the Arab Spring forced him to take the steps that historically Israel had used for decades to resolve similar cases.

Sounds like a Win-Win.  Too bad it took so long.

The swap is notedly lopsided, but that is due to the fact that Israel imprisons Palestinians in a very lopsided manner including many women and, as formerly noted, children in their sweeps for prisoners within their, West Banks, and Gaza's borders.

Shalit's family has petitioned for a long time for the Israeli government to do such a swap, even camping outside the Israeli PM's house. 

Apparently after all the get tough talk from the Israeli government during the latest portions of the rule of the Kadima party and the revival of Likud, hampered  a deal so to prevent the fall of the government, and the PM is using the events of this spring and summer to do the kinds of swaps that Israel has always done.

See Reuters report at yahoo.com for basic details.  Others are from my understanding of the situation after following sources who have been reporting on this case for years.