What issues do you think get overlooked by the Blogosphere?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Intelligence community abuses and lack of oversight.
My dad is a liberalish centrist who reads the “liberal” NYT regularly. He has been saying things like “Obama seems inexperienced”, etc. How do we reach people who don’t read blogs and don’t even watch TV, and trust the NYT? I have no idea….
Reagan was also labeled inexperienced for the times.
Overlooked?
We still think elections matter and that our votes count, that people will vote their enlightened self-interest instead of who they are told to vote for, and that there’s an easy way out of the coming economic collapse.
We still think there’s an outcome, logical or otherwise, that we can still affect as American citizens.
the opposite holds – we vote against our own self-interest. Case in point: 2000 and 2004.
Most of us didn’t. But that’s another story.
good film along those lines – I howled at parts of Swing Vote (and cried at others). Go see it. It will remind you how far ahead of the curve we all are….
It’s not that issues get overlooked, it’s their half-life measured in hours (sometimes in minutes).
said his health situation is “dire”
wish him all that’s good.
the confusion of excuses for the “anthrax Killer” or “homicidal anthrax killer” .. because here’s a new one
an obsession with sorority college girls..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_go_ot/anthrax_investigation
the girls at Kappa Kappa Gamma must be to die for..
Maybe I missed this but I didn’t see front page coverage on the work the Dems were doing the end of June to hold Big Oil accountable. More attention might have made the R’s STFU.
Also, I wish the word MONOPOLY would be attached to every conversation about offshore drilling cause that’s what the R’s are doing their damnest to give Big Oil.
Job insecurity isn’t necessarily a blogosphere issue, but I think it’s a targeted message that would do well in this election cycle.
I wish that classic surveys of consumer confidence and related questions about economic prospects would be supplemented by similar questions about perceptions of one’s own job security. Maybe it’s just because Florida is in a recession, but all of my friends–even tenured professors–feel uncertain about their job security, or their ability to maintain income streams for those that are self-employed.
I did a google search on the term and mostly got hits of academic works, especially in the European theater. I did get one bit of simplistic, pollyanna nonsense from US News and World Report June 2008:
In my main field of project management, someone aptly said, “There is no job stability: Either you’re coming or you’re going.” Job insecurity will probably become a permanent norm for most workers–if it hasn’t already.
Its politically inconvenient. Unless we figure out how to raise more revenue we are fucked.
Personal and public debt. We are in a culture where living beyond our means is acceptable from top to bottom. Encouraged, even. Few want to hear about thrift or conservation.
I would love to see more talk about ending this dumb drug war and making pot heads criminals.
…in immigration law enforcement.
There are weekly horrible abuses perpetrated by “ICE.” The very fact that we call our immigration law enforcement agency ICE gives a hint at the culture being built. It’s cold, uncaring and hard.
Immigrants who may or may not be here illegally are human beings who deserve rights and due process, but they are stigmatized by both race and crime. Most often these are people who make our society stronger and are only trying to alleviate the poverty faced by their families in countries saddled with the burdens of US trade policy.
The courts that deal with these abuses are kafka-esque and operate almost entirely outside the public eye. It’s a travesty.
If you want a front pager who can write about these things, I have a friend who could probably convinced to give a few hours of her time.
it’s not that some issues are overlooked, the problem is that it’s very difficult to find what concerns you most and soulmates in Blogosphere.