The world is in constant change, even in Harvard
The President of Harvard is female
The Speaker of the House, number 2 from the White House, is female
Data in support of working parents being left behind is in the US. Those in
the midwest from working parents with high school educations are rising the
fastest in child poverty and at a rate to overcome the top levels of child
poverty in the south by now or within the next two years.
Probably got this from this list serve
http://www.nccp.org/pub_npr06.html
Hard to deny that the nation is shifting emphasis away from middle and
lower classes and toward concentrations of income, wealth, education,
professionals, and people.
It is also interesting how the media reports spin the welfare state
arguments for UNICEF and other reports
But the media rarely places emphasis on areas such as age 0 - 6 child
development
Rarely seen:
Massive increases in benefits to US elderly with all programs moving this
way steadily for 40 years
Massive declines in well being of children
Concentrations of elderly, retirees, professionals in certain states and
cities making changes most difficult as
Each decade 5 - 10% of the popluation, mostly lower and middle income
peoples, run away from many of these major cities and areas because
conditions are so bad...
for raising children
Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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www.ruralmedicaleducation.org
As Edward R. Murrow said Good Night and Good Luck referring to
the days when broadcast journalism died....
The movie was co-written and directed by George Clooney and Murrow was
played by David Strathairn. According to Clooney the movie used Edward R.
Murrow’s exact script in the key speeches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow
…the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Foundation welcomes
Mr. Edward R. Murrow. A Salute to Edward R. Murrow October 25, 1958
This might just do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few
people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest and
your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical
and even dangerous ideas. But the elaborate structure of networks,
advertising agencies and sponsors will not be shaken or altered. It is my
desire, if not my duty, to try and talk to you journeymen with some candor
about what is happening to radio and television. And if what I say is
responsible, I alone and responsible for it. Our history will be what we
make of it. And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now
and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three
networks they will find recorded in black and white and in color evidence
of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in
which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent.
We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our
mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and
recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude,
amuse, and insulate us then television and those who finance it, those who
look at it, and those who work at it may see a totally different picture,
too late.
In 1954 Murrow and CBS were not the first to question the direction of the
times, but they did take a courageous stand. Later in 1958 he challenged
broadcasters to do more, " To those who say people wouldn't look; they
wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated,
I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable
evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have
they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good
for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is
flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This
instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But
it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to
those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. Good night,
and good luck." – RTNDA Convention Speech, October 15, 1958 We are
still waiting….
“Earlier, the Senator asked, "Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed?"
Had he looked three lines earlier in Shakespeare's Caesar, he would have
found this line, which is not altogether inappropriate: "The fault, dear
Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
No one familiar with the history of our country can deny that congressional
investigations are useful. It is necessary to investigate before
legislating. But the line between investigating and persecuting is a very
fine one and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it
repeatedly. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember
always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon due
evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one with
another, we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig
deep in our history and our doctrine and remember we are not descended from
fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to associate, to speak, and
to defend the causes that for the moment are unpopular.
This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy’s methods to keep
silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history
but we cannot escape responsibility for the results. We proclaim ourselves
indeed as we are: the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist
in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and
dismay among our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our
enemies. (implies treason by using this definition) And whose fault is
that? Not really his. He didn’t create this situation of fear, he merely
exploited it and rather successfully.
Cassius was right The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in
ourselves.
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