Who do I route for ......the Slimes or it's unions ?

Globe issues ultimatum: unions must settle or face closure - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe

tomder55

besides that ;Specter is himself a cancer survivor so he should be well aware about how much money gets spent in this nation ,both publicly and privately on cancer research and treatment .

speechlesstx

When you cross that line to the left I think the portion of your brain that processes the concept of charity gets scrambled.

tomder55

Ed Morrissey says this about Benedict Arlen's claim :
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Specter says he would have cured Kemp if GOP had listened

ETWolverine

This reminds me of another moral dilema I cam across years ago.

Let's assume you are a photo-journalist (I know, I know, an extinct breed). You are walking in the mountains of Afghanistan. You look up, and lo-and behold, hanging from his fingertips from a cliff-edge is Osama bin Laden. You can tell that he's struggling to keep from falling and that he will soon lose all his strength and plunge to his death. You can either save him thus proving your moral superiority over terrorists and acting in a humane manner, or you can follow your journalistic instincts and capture the image of him dropping to his death without interfering in the story as a good journalist should.

Your dilema:

Should you use the wide-angle lense or go for the close-up?

Elliot

speechlesstx

The wide angle would give you a nice panoramic view, show the magnitude of his peril. You can always go for the closeup at the bottom.

ETWolverine

Yeah... but I might just want to see his expression as he drops. It's a coin toss.

speechlesstx

If you used video you could start with the closeup, pan out and catch his scream at the same time.

ETWolverine

Cool... video rights.

Mustn't forget the boom mike.

tomder55

The Slimes says that the Globe has a temporary reprieve even though negotiations went no where yesterday . The Globe is targetting losses of $85 million if the unions don't make concessions.

When asked about the devlopments White House flunky Robert Gibbs had this to say.

Q. A quick question on The Boston Globe today, the news that they may have 30 to 60 days to live. What’s the White House’s thinking on the newspaper industry right now and whether or not it may need a bailout, since there are a lot of jobs at stake just as with the auto industry; a lot of people talking about the impact on communities like Boston, Seattle, and places that are losing newspapers? How do you evaluate all that?

Mr. Gibbs: I have not asked specifically about assistance. I don’t think — I think that might be a bit of a tricky area to get into, given the differing roles. Obviously the president believes there has to be a strong free press. I think there’s a certain concern and a certain sadness when you see cities losing their newspapers or regions of the country losing their newspapers. So it’s certainly of concern.
I don’t know what, in all honesty, government can do about it.

Then he added this strange comment:

I would note that, looking at some of the balance sheets, I wondered how you guys didn’t think $100 million meant a lot a few weeks ago, but looking at some of the balance sheets, $100 million seems to me a lot.

This was a reference to the President asking his staff to cut $100 million from his multi-trillion dollar budget . In other words ;there is no comparison . The equivalent would be the Globe reducing it's paper clips purchases.

speechlesstx

Gibbs is so clueless, either that or the administration really thinks we're idiots...or maybe it's both.

$100 million to the feds is like .003 percent of Obama's budget, not counting all the other sepnding. That's not 3 percent, it's not 3 tenths of one percent, it's not 3 hundredths of one percent, that's 3 thousandths of one percent if my math hasn't failed me. That's less than paper clips for the Globe, it's like someone with $100k income cutting out a six-pack of Cokes a year from their budget.