Fellow former reporter and cubanita blogger Carrie, over there in TN, has a excellent take on the recent show "Bizarre Worlds", in the Travel Channel, where Andrew Zimmern visited Cuba.
It was outrageous and at the lowest of the lowest regarding journalistic standards. I mean, even the NYT has taken on it. When that happens, it's because the editorial bias is really, really, way too outstanding... or we're near the end of the world or something...
Sorry to break the news, but I personally think that whoever was expecting something different from your usual MSM, was being, at best, naive.
Whoever is honestly interested in seeing the bizarre live of ordinary Cubans under a regimen that has consistently destroyed my homeland for fifty years, needs to embark in some sort of undercover mission.
Kind of what Spanish journalist Vicente Botín did while being an authorized reporter in Havana, who recently published the book "Los funerales de Castro", with the testimonies of the real life in Cuba, non sanctioned by the regimen, that he managed to sneaked out the country when he left.
That's the only way to see, up close and personal, how bizarre life in Cuba really is.
Cubanita's Thoughts ... far away from el terruño
Sep 9, 2009
Sep 8, 2009
Pep talk and unanswered questions
POTUS gave his nationwide speech to schoolchildren today, and most people agree it was harmless - politically speaking.
Does that mean that I - and others who outrageously blew the whistle about it - have to agree to some sort of capitulation? Not at all.
As parent and American citizen, my concerns and questions remain unanswered, in the most traditional fashion this administration seems to sport.
1) Why the text of the speech was not made public until the public uproar reached the deaf ears of the White House?
2) Why creating a lesson plan to guide teachers into the "teaching" of the speech? Why not making a casual and informal interaction, if it was supposed to be so harmless since the beginning? And why that plan was written by a group of "educators" kind of dangerously tied to the WH?
3) Why asking kids to write a letter to the president telling him how would they help him? Since when schoolchildren are supposed to help presidents at all? And why the quick whitewashing when parents started to complain?
4) Why some school districts left it to the teachers to decide whether to see the speech or not? When did parents stop being the decision-takers regarding who the want for their children's role models?
How would have we known what that speech could have been, if there was not a huge public uproar about it? The book of possibilities. I know. Pero mas vale que digan aqui grito, que aqui murio...
And those concerns remain unanswered because, again, the devil is not in the speech per se; the devil is the subtext and in everything that surrounds it.
On top of that, those who disagreed with the whole theater, have been called all sort of things; from cowards to cavemen (and women). However, in 1991, when Bush gave an education-type-of-speech, Democrats formally investigated and held hearing about it. I guess that also makes them cowards and cavemen (and women), right?
By the way, the race card could not be missing either. Just check the comment's thread; including my own - which I now see as "too" nice for the reality we're facing:
I stand by what I said at the beginning: politicians and their political speeches have no place in a classroom. Be that president Obama, Bush, or any other for that matter. No place.
Period.
Does that make me a radical, nut job, righ-winger, fear-monger, coward and cave woman mother?
So be it.
After the PTSD caused by my own survival under communist indoctrination since I entered kindergarten, I will not economize in precautions to prevent my son from going through the same nightmare.
FYI: Just check this ADD moment.
Does that mean that I - and others who outrageously blew the whistle about it - have to agree to some sort of capitulation? Not at all.
As parent and American citizen, my concerns and questions remain unanswered, in the most traditional fashion this administration seems to sport.
1) Why the text of the speech was not made public until the public uproar reached the deaf ears of the White House?
2) Why creating a lesson plan to guide teachers into the "teaching" of the speech? Why not making a casual and informal interaction, if it was supposed to be so harmless since the beginning? And why that plan was written by a group of "educators" kind of dangerously tied to the WH?
3) Why asking kids to write a letter to the president telling him how would they help him? Since when schoolchildren are supposed to help presidents at all? And why the quick whitewashing when parents started to complain?
4) Why some school districts left it to the teachers to decide whether to see the speech or not? When did parents stop being the decision-takers regarding who the want for their children's role models?
How would have we known what that speech could have been, if there was not a huge public uproar about it? The book of possibilities. I know. Pero mas vale que digan aqui grito, que aqui murio...
And those concerns remain unanswered because, again, the devil is not in the speech per se; the devil is the subtext and in everything that surrounds it.
On top of that, those who disagreed with the whole theater, have been called all sort of things; from cowards to cavemen (and women). However, in 1991, when Bush gave an education-type-of-speech, Democrats formally investigated and held hearing about it. I guess that also makes them cowards and cavemen (and women), right?
By the way, the race card could not be missing either. Just check the comment's thread; including my own - which I now see as "too" nice for the reality we're facing:
MM4QBA wrote:
I guess the Black description couldn't be absent from this forum... what does race or the color of you skin has to do with being a good or bad role model anyway? Good people and bad people come in all colors and shapes ... I don't want Obama to be role model for my children not because he is 50% Black. I don't want him to be a role model for my children because he is 100% liberal, because he is 100% statist and yes, way too socialist-inclined for my own sake. Because instead of governing from the center and truthfully unite the country beyond our differences, he has done the opposite. He has chosen to step all over the foundations of this nation and its Constitution, and with every step, the government grows more and our liberties are even more eroded. As anybody can see, there are endless reasons to reject Obama's role model, and none of them have anything to do with the color of his skin. Or the color of ours.
I stand by what I said at the beginning: politicians and their political speeches have no place in a classroom. Be that president Obama, Bush, or any other for that matter. No place.
Period.
Does that make me a radical, nut job, righ-winger, fear-monger, coward and cave woman mother?
So be it.
After the PTSD caused by my own survival under communist indoctrination since I entered kindergarten, I will not economize in precautions to prevent my son from going through the same nightmare.
FYI: Just check this ADD moment.
No words needed
Our very own Maestro Pong have the perfect summary of the disastrous political nightmare our adoptive country is going through.
So much for the change we needed... words are totally useless. I can't help to wonder how those who got scammed by hopeandchange are feeling right now.
If only more cartoonists would separate themselves from the biases of the MSM...
So much for the change we needed... words are totally useless. I can't help to wonder how those who got scammed by hopeandchange are feeling right now.
If only more cartoonists would separate themselves from the biases of the MSM...
Sep 6, 2009
Good bye. And good riddance.
Obama's green czar Van Jones resigned in the late hours of Saturday - brought to you by the Washington Post, just one of many in the MSM that have ignored the past of this guy.
The news is spreading all over...
As expected, he is saying we - the ones who oppose his finger-pointed position, the other 30 something czars and the rest of the policies of the current administration - are distorting the facts and using lies.
Really? It is all caught in video, in YouTube, everything in his own words, but we're telling lies. Que clase de tipo mas descarao'!!!
I believed it was through Glenn Beck's radio and TV show that the investigation on the creepy past of this man started. But the sordid details of this guy's resume have been spreading online with fierce insistence over the past weeks. And some legislators took note of it.
I will repeat it again: Good Bye. And good riddance.
However, the WH recording machine said he will continue to work with the current administration; I guess old habits die hard. After all, it's the Chicago way.
The rest of the politburo need to start packing their bags. I've read their master in chief has increased the number of visas to Cuba. They could trade places with the thousands of Cubans willing and dying to leave the communist plantation.
If not, they will be voted out of office anyway.
Get the president a bright red recogedor; he'll need it to pick up the guy that just went under the bus.
UPDATE:
A timeline your MSM won't give you; el kid del asunto, o sea, the nutshell of all this, and how to re-write a sentence. Check it out here.
The news is spreading all over...
As expected, he is saying we - the ones who oppose his finger-pointed position, the other 30 something czars and the rest of the policies of the current administration - are distorting the facts and using lies.
Really? It is all caught in video, in YouTube, everything in his own words, but we're telling lies. Que clase de tipo mas descarao'!!!
I believed it was through Glenn Beck's radio and TV show that the investigation on the creepy past of this man started. But the sordid details of this guy's resume have been spreading online with fierce insistence over the past weeks. And some legislators took note of it.
I will repeat it again: Good Bye. And good riddance.
However, the WH recording machine said he will continue to work with the current administration; I guess old habits die hard. After all, it's the Chicago way.
The rest of the politburo need to start packing their bags. I've read their master in chief has increased the number of visas to Cuba. They could trade places with the thousands of Cubans willing and dying to leave the communist plantation.
If not, they will be voted out of office anyway.
Get the president a bright red recogedor; he'll need it to pick up the guy that just went under the bus.
UPDATE:
A timeline your MSM won't give you; el kid del asunto, o sea, the nutshell of all this, and how to re-write a sentence. Check it out here.
Sep 1, 2009
Remember how it was when we had a 4th power?
Just another two examples suporting what I've been blogging, ad nauseum: the 4th power is gone. Journalism ethics? - What was that again?
Sunk journalistic standards and blatanly false reporting are now the norm. And now, some are just starting to catch-up, amid lows-lows of calling tea-partiers terrorrists and so on.
I've been reading about these cases for a few days now, but was honestly tired to try to bang at the same wall and preaching to a long-gone choir about it.
Thankfully, the Conservative Libertarian Outpost has put together more or less my same line of thought about the people showing up armed at the townhalls meeting and how the MSM is not even bothering with checking their facts anymore.
I'm telling you, those standards seems to have been left in the concrete walls of my J-School classroom in FIU.
Me, however, still wants to think that there are still excellent journalists and reporters out there - I know, most of them probably on the internet - who are holding the fort for this dear profession.
Sunk journalistic standards and blatanly false reporting are now the norm. And now, some are just starting to catch-up, amid lows-lows of calling tea-partiers terrorrists and so on.
I've been reading about these cases for a few days now, but was honestly tired to try to bang at the same wall and preaching to a long-gone choir about it.
Thankfully, the Conservative Libertarian Outpost has put together more or less my same line of thought about the people showing up armed at the townhalls meeting and how the MSM is not even bothering with checking their facts anymore.
I'm telling you, those standards seems to have been left in the concrete walls of my J-School classroom in FIU.
Me, however, still wants to think that there are still excellent journalists and reporters out there - I know, most of them probably on the internet - who are holding the fort for this dear profession.
CA smoke is getting here
Yesterday I noticed the unusual cloudy and gray sky on NoCo, but it wasn't until this morning that I heard in the radio - during my morning commute with KCOL - that the smoke from California wildfires is getting here.
And the Denver Post is confirming it, with info from the weather station in Grand Junction. It looks like the highest peaks are lost in the horizon, due to the blanket of smoke. And a smoke health advisory alert has been issued for some areas of Colorado - where we have our very own share of wild fires too.
Gosh, I can not even imagine what Californians living in those areas are going through now... I hope my blogging friends are nowhere near the fires.
A little bit north though, a fiery red sun was calmingly going to bed last night, when I took these two pics on my way out of classes.
We're still able to see the front range hills, but the sky looks strangely gray and plain over here, where no matter how cold or how hot, the bright blue skies can always pump life out of you.
Mood Music
For you to ponder our current scary-as-hell national dilemmas, a few minutes of mood music to inspire your tired (and radical, fearmonger,extremist, fill in the blank _____) freedom-lover brain:
H/T to HotAir
H/T to HotAir
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