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The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV |
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Written by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
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Saturday, 07 April 2007 |
 It’s become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King’s death, we get perfunctory network news reports about “the slain civil rights leader.”
The remarkable thing about these reviews of King’s life is that several years – his last years – are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 16 April 2007 )
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Time to stop playing games on climate change: Task Force Issues Paper "an insult", says expert |
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Written by Jan Lee Martin
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
A former chairman of the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading has added to the criticism of the Federal Government’s climate change policy by Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, as reported in today’s Australian Financial Review.
Ian Dunlop, who chaired the group that produced the first design for a National Emissions Trading system in 1999, expressed his total frustration with the current political debate on climate change: “The government’s current approach continues the process of denial and misrepresentation which has characterised its climate change policy since the 1990’s.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 16 April 2007 )
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READING: 'The Futurist': The Hero Goes Around Spouting Drivel. It Pays the Bills. |
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Written by JANET MASLIN
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Saturday, 31 March 2007 |
This is the past history of the Futurist, the terminally cynical (and paradoxically nearsighted) main character in James P. Othmer's debut novel. He used to believe that things were getting better. He thought that science had a heart and that progress had a conscience. Then came doubts, followed by questions and alarming insights. Soon this high-profile, big-ticket trend prognosticator was prophesying doom and gloom.
THE FUTURIST
By James P. Othmer
(Non Fiction)
"He began to criticize the present, and he warned of a more damaged tomorrow if we refused to change," Mr Othmer writes. "He gave heads-ups and watch-outs, supported by facts and scientifically validated forecasts and cautionary tales." But this kind of outlook left his audiences feeling troubled, which was not the desired effect. "It was suggested that he might want to put a bit more of a smile back on his work." So the Futurist, named Yates, switched gears and began telling those audiences what they wanted to hear.
Those are the preliminaries for this acerbically funny book, clearly written by a refugee from corporate culture. Mr Othmer, who used to be an executive at the advertising firm Young & Rubicam, has obviously heard or delivered his share of baloney-laden lectures. He knows the protocol of the business trip, the pecking order at the creative conference and the strategic efficacy of spouting pure nonsense when the time is right.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 31 March 2007 )
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