Brent Morehouse:
Good post. I like your ideas and thoughts. Email me your email address...I would like to ask additional questions. thx
jmc1007@mac.com
Mike
The word "cost" is used incorrectly to describe the $4.6 Trillion dollars used to prevent the failure of the US financial system in the past crisis. Please read the Washington post article which says that the total cost of Tarp will be approximately
$100 Billion and most of that for AIG! I am sure the same holds true for the $3.6 Trillion of LOANS which were made. I believe that in some cases, the government is actually going to make money off of its loans. Please be more responsible in your reporting in the future.
I really hope everyone has done their homework and have researched this thing to the fullest. The one thing Americans suffer from the most is hearsay that leads to accusations that in turn leads to the breakdown of our social strength. We can sit here, and I assume we are all sitting, we can read this and instinctually say to ourselves that we would like to believe that no one in their right minds would be supportive of this toxic sludge. I would go ahead and bet lots of things that I probably shouldn't, and say that Chef Waters probably thinks like most humans and has no intent of harming anyone and certainly has more to do than to watch over government officials. People, we are being screwed by a much bigger villain than Chef Waters. I know that you think that you have to start at the bottom to reach the top, but crap runs downhill. The next time you decide to picket someones business make sure you research the company that made the paper you wrote your tiff on and you may want to research the wood that's holding that sign up in the air so proudly. Then make sure that the person you attack was given all the information you have and vice versa. Otherwise we're just making enemies rather than unifying an already failing network of humanity. Exercise every rational attempt to communicate before you attack someone, that way you're not just two poles on opposite ends, but humans using the power of communication, compassion, and commonsense. I hope this helps everyone.
I'd say corporate clients quite often deal in bathwater - and in the case of publicly traded companies, liquids far more toxic than bathwater!
In the theater example, for what it's worth, a professional wouldn't last long in his or her position if he or she refuses to work with influential journalists. When a PR person and a reviewer have a good working relationship, the reviewer may notify the PR person that the review will not be positive, and the PR person can take steps to mitigate the bad news or suggest the producers correct the problems the reviewer identified for future performances. Thus there's no real 'losers' in that scenario. (In fact this plays out all the time in editorial reviews of technology products: bugs are identified and fixed.)
I'm not into reductionist views of the media ecosystem, but in my experience over the last 15 years or so, I've found that what hurts the journalism trade hurts the PR trade too...irreparably in some cases.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/clinton-sludge-ruining-obama-garden
Michelle Obama’s toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
Alex Salkever
Jul 30th 2009
When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle’s organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.
This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem. Sewage sludge tends to be laced with anything that people pour down the drain and often contains heavy metals. Not surprisingly, the National Park Service tested the dirt beneath Michelle’s garden and found the plot has highly elevated levels of lead averaging 93 parts per million. That’s below the 400 ppm that the Environmental Protection Agency says is a threat to human health. But I’d wager that Sasha, Malia and Barack won’t be getting arugula or tomatoes from this garden any time soon.
The likely source of the toxic sludge that has ruined Michelle’s garden? The Clinton White House apparently used a sludge-based product to fertilize the lawn during the 1990s! Aside from casting a shadow on the first White House vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt resided there, the sludge ensures that Michelle’s garden will never attain organic status. Organic certification processes strictly prohibit the use of sludge as a fertilizer substitute.
The White House has sought to downplay the issue, and a number of experts have pointed out that 93 ppm of sludge in soil is somewhat normal for older urban locales. However, the EPA recommends not growing food in soil that has 100 ppm. Several major food producers, including H.J. Heinz and Del Monte, won’t accept produce grown in sludge. That’s despite decades of U.S. government efforts to encourage farmers to use solid sewage wastes in lieu of traditional fertilizer products.
What a surprise it is to see that it’s the Clintons who are to blame?
Did you ever think you would hear ‘the Clintons’ and ‘sludge’ mentioned in the same sentence?
I'd say corporate clients quite often deal in bathwater - and in the case of publicly traded companies, liquids far more toxic than bathwater!
In the theater example, for what it's worth, a professional wouldn't last long in his or her position if he or she refuses to work with influential journalists. When a PR person and a reviewer have a good working relationship, the reviewer may notify the PR person that the review will not be positive, and the PR person can take steps to mitigate the bad news or suggest the producers correct the problems the reviewer identified for future performances. Thus there's no real 'losers' in that scenario. (In fact this plays out all the time in editorial reviews of technology products: bugs are identified and fixed.)
I'm not into reductionist views of the media ecosystem, but in my experience over the last 15 years or so, I've found that what hurts the journalism trade hurts the PR trade too...irreparably in some cases.
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