POLY TICKIN NEWS WHORES VS FREE SPEECH AT ISSUE

SHOULD ONE CONTRIBUTE TO THE POLY-TICK HACK OF HIS CHOICE OR DOES ONE SUCK IN WITH THE COPORATE POLICY THAT WILL LET EM KEEP HIS JOB AND MAYBE A GET RAISE ONCE A YEAR IF THAT, IF THE EMPLOYEE DOESN'T CONTRIBUTE TO A POLY-TICKS CAMPAIGN

A PICK-POCKET JUDGES A SAINT BY THE HEIGHT OF HIS POCKETS

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GLOBAL-POLY-TICKS CHRONICLE G-GATE O'WHERE HAS FREE SPEECH GONE

 WHO WILL BUY THIS BEAUTIFUL MORNING -

MAKE THAT A DOUBLE WITH THREE OLIVES

CHAPTER II

WHOSE SKIMMING AMERICA TODAY

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

 

 Contributioons-Seeds of Fascism

 

IT AIN'T WHO YOU KNOW THAT COUNTS IT'S WHO YOU OWN DEPARTMENT

 

WHAT'S FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS BUY THESE DAYS? ...OR WHO?

GRRRRRRESP!

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Can you believe it the San Francisco Chronicle has suspended an editor for giving a $400 dollar contribution to John Kerry for President as a potential conflict of interest and the "RAG" (a term common to newspapereeze, comes from the rag content of acid paper used in newsprint of days gone by the stuff that contributed to contamiation of the water supply to the ); but I digress;

 

...the rag as,  another of arrogant corporate compliant editors holding on to his job, "put it", to the BlogOneDos,  "  is standing behind the long term practice"!

The Blogonedos might add, "....most absurdly so!"

 

In the first place, I think contributing to any billionaires campaign is like spitting in the wind ...chaaa-tui, (pho-eNetically, that's chaaa-two-ee, as in hocking a luggi)
When one is forced to give up the right to express, or participate in a political process, in a legal manner their CONCERTED rights as citizens and are suspended from employment as a result crosses the line has between free speech and fascism but not issues necessarily the line of bribery.

(Wuz dere ever a line dere in duh furst place? ..anyone got change of a hundred!)

 

Now, one should take note, it is and was near impossible to "volunteer" for service to the Kerry Campaign, which makes one wonder if that fact alone does not illustrate a campaign ploy to raise money for paid loyalty as opposed to the free services of "commited believers in the "Kerry Cause", Whatever that might be! Apparently, the billionaire, Skull n Bones, secret society frat brother of George W. Bush does not need the donations in the first place unless attempting to make it look like the "voice of the press" is not up for sale!

....and any good press he gets from the historically independantly liberal Chronicle would have been gained from an unbiased press! 

 

Not necessarily a digression, let's go deeper;

 

TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY PRESS

...What is even more absurd is the fact that the individual, the S.F. Chronicles' "put-on-ice", suspended editor, has been with the paper for thirty - five years; ...is this the first time  the emploee donated to a campaign in 35 years? What happened? Did the Chronicle give him a raise he then went hog-wild, on a rampage of political bribery and wreckless spending flaunting his opulent new found wealth and influence? Was he buying favors, cash for info, whereby deep throat would call him first? Was Senator Kerry, (who I lovingly refer to as) "press-whores" influenced by the $400 contribution or was the "buh, billionaires'" real wealth conveying a strong message to the press, people seeking favors from insiders at the campaign because Kerry cannot be bought because he is or should be buying the press with campaign donations or his own money. Supposition can go on infinitum  and even for a long time after that!

 

Back to the supposed issues,

....Now how many 11 martini lunches have restaurant columnists "taken" from prospective influence peddlers?  Or how common is their of cash under the table to reprint free so as to get a commitments for "rate-holder" contracts from the clients, ( a rate holder for those who have no clue, the idea has historically been standard advertising marketing practice for almost forever, or as long as BlogOneDos has been around. a bulk rate contract at a lower price per agate line, a measurement of column inches in a newspaper.) The rate-holder was a contractual commitment to reserve future column space, a bulk rate, sometimes bought appropriately by the novice client or bribed / negotiated by the public relations pro packed with hot insider information traded in behalf of his green client or the newspaper sales person trying to make the advertising bottom agate line quota, call it a sales projection for the month, or in the event the newspaper was small, the sales person, the writer, and public relations person were, one-and the-same, ...none-the-less, "all news-whores, of sorts".

 

 

So, you say, ..."Wus new? Everybody gotta be someplace!"

If I am not mistaken and that has no baring on the material fact(s) anyway, nothing has such baring on facts in the news business, there is nothing right or wrong if you can pay for it in some fashion or another.

 

The Chronicle a morning rag was merged with the San Francisco Examiner , a Hearst Corp newspaper... having also merged staff and circulation wise on November 22, 2000 with the San Francisco Chronicle, satisfying a Justice Department Anti-Trust Agreement whereby Hearst sold it's interest in the Examiner, to ExIn, LLC, but, the Chronicle was only partially separated from a JOA (Joint Operating Agreement) designed by The Justice Department under the Newspaper Preservation Act, until 2005.

The Examiner has a daily circulation of about 110,000 newspapers, and the Chronicle has about 450,000.

But I digress: the pieces fitting together where the press makes a wish to vie for the business.

One must be cognizant of the fact that William Randolf Hearst did not build Hearst Castle on ethics alone... far from it! (now I ain't doin a re-make of Citizen Cane). But we cannot leave out other mitigating circumstances which might lead a Newspaper to restrict its' employees from shall we say reverting back to "old economy historical mindset" heavy handed practices which limit not only business parctices but impact the restrictions on union employees as well, in one of the most hard-core devoted union towns in America.

 

"This is the stuff of the First Ammendment being hijacked by Big Business, but as soon as the restrictions were lifted the issues of that dominance were visited once again in the competitive spirit that will ultimately be affected by Poly-Ticks of the out-source Global Kind. "

 

San Francisco is still considered a Major Gateway to the Orient. So keeping your eye on the ball we trace the issue at hand to ExIn LLC, owned by the Fang family of San Francisco. The Fang family also owns the San Francisco Independent, a Bay Area newspaper published three times each week with a circulation of over 375,000. So San Francisco for the first time in over 35 yeras gets two competing Morning rags, where the issues may very well, predictably, point to out-sourcing of jobs and services. Those who buy the raw materials cheaper and more effiiciently rule the rules committees. So once again as in the days of William Randolf Hearst who would view from atop San Simeon, the oil tankers dotted along the horizon of the Calfornia Coastline, the power brokers move to the head of the line of influence peddling. Hearst was able to watch his investments comming and going, his power and wealth undisputable. And all this as an annointed child who loved his Rosebud.

 

Today, many paper mills have rightfully been closed domestically and the raw materials often re-purchased and re-inported from abroad, a grey market of sorts, but this is food for thought and more conjecture than fact.

 

It should be noted that In this day and age is it not more than interesting that such influence peddling is revisited on the very icon which Orsen Wells in Citizen Cane had attacked the grandest of the information bull elephants of the printed word using tactics of coersive political dominance to garner control over anything and everything he could. Hearst was a demon of capitalism to some and lord over it to others.

 

But I digress somewhat:

 

Continuing with the concept of our iced editor, "what be the deal?"

In the old days, like pre - 9/11 A.D. 

 

The deal maker or shal we say breaker was free booz or free lunch or a promise for a few choice lines in the editorial section about the great service at the clients restaurant, the writer /sales person would get a yearly commitment  from the client, say, for 1000 agate lines. ( there are 6 to the inch actually each agate line is , one fourteenth (1/14 )of an inch, but space between the lines (set-solid) is part of agate lines to the inch, you do the math, it does not amount to a  vice-presidential special interest generated government Halliburton contract for 18 billion taxpayer dollars), but in the war of the word and the control of public opinion, any miser will tell you every "liter" bit helps. So, why didn't Cheney get iced, relative to the 18 billion dollar contract. He only said, we shall make sure the tax-payer gets the money returned... presumably so they can do it again!

.  Historically speaking, newspaper columinists, and clients both have bought free speech leverage as a custom and practice. It is just business as usual, nothing personal.

It boiled down to how many cases of booz columists, editors, sales or public relations people "gave" or "took" from the wine-o's (hiccup) clients, or restaurants or whomever not limited to poly-tickin candidates or their press people to insure the so called newspaper pseudo image of  uhhh, integfrity, burp!  A case of Jack Daniels stratgeically placed under the desk of an editor of the "talk of the town" good morning gossip column could be worth the effort and investment. It sure beat paying $5000 dollars to buy the advertising on the back page of the newspaper.

 

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THE ENDORSEMDNT OF A BELIEVED COLUMNIST IS WORTH MORE THAN PAYING FOR THE BACK PAGE.

 

So voila, the message goes out that $400.00 donated to the Kerry Campaign gets in the way of the big leveraged influence when campaign funds are about to be dumped in a city with now two competing newspapers where previously there was one.

 

 We wouldn't want the integrity OF SUCH REPUTABLE historically preserved and protected newspapers to sell too cheap, Not when the candidates have raised nearly $400 million dollars, that's for ore burrrp, fou,,,,,r hunnnndred Million, to be dumped in print meda radio and television and to buy the ear eyes and tongues of America.

 

. .So no wonder someone gets nervous about an editor, having the authority to chose the letters-to-the-editor. The "Editor" is certainly the point man for the Chronicle born in the tradition of William Randolf Hearst.

 

If it were not for the elephant gun of Orson Wells, Citizen Cane and the likes of films starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis would we have known?

Lancaster playing a Walter Winchell type and the Curtis the ruthless part of the lacky hachet man serving to the most powerful columnist in New York.

 

"Not being the type that stands if I can sit or st if I can lay down, I submit the following by Roger Ebert a very poignant expression of my own sentiments;

 

    

     "The two men in "The Sweet Smell of Success" relate to each other like junkyard dogs. One is dominant, and the other is a whipped cur, circling hungrily, his tail between his legs, hoping for a scrap after the big dog has dined. The dynamic between a powerful gossip columnist and a hungry press agent, is seen starkly and without pity. The rest of the plot simply supplies events to illustrate the love-hate relationship.

     When "The Sweet Smell of Success" was released in 1957, it was seen as a thinly-veiled attack on Walter Winchell, who     for decades had been the most famous and reviled gossip columnist in America. Forty years later Winchell is mostly forgotten (he died in 1972), but the film lives on--sharp-edged, merciless. The performances by Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis have not dated or grown soft; although both men were dismissed as studio stars at the time, can we think of a "serious actor" who could have played either role so well?"

 

   Such expose warns of the dangers of press on the "take", the inside story. Which today would interpert as out-side - out-source to China or India where the characters become more like Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart. The stakes are high and the picked-pockets deep.

But I digress possibly with good cause;

     The question is not whether the editor is on the take or the give, but why the na-ne-noo-u newz-paper, grrrrresp! is so anal, so indignant, it is tantamount to saying that twenty self-inflicted, lashes with a cat-of-nine-tail, leather strap inhibited priests over the last 600 years from spending too much time in the shower with the 10 year old alto lead choir boy. There are many casting couches in the house of the....

 

Now someone pullease, tell me why an editor is on ice because after 35 years he felt moved to give 400 dollars to the Kerry campaign; ....stop hiding behind the "policy"... as if he Kerry would fess up to where WMD are!

 

I believe I have seen the seeds of Liberalism turn into fascism. When one gives up their legal right to be a good citizen, just to remain on the job at a newspaper, as if the editor  has no thought other than endentured servitude as a personal ideal, I think, the hell with the job, the quid pro quo is tantamount to having a membership in the Cancer Society for Journalistic Moralism.

 

 Now! If this is the way newspapers needs to beef up, sub rosa, the pitch for Kerry donations, or to toot it's own integrity horn or to unseat their loyal employees "kinda," the gold finger kiss-off after 35 years of servitude, "endentured slavery"; .

 

.. then the iced emploeeeeee  has gotten the free-speech "Golden Spike-Kiss-Off Award of the century... sent out to pasture writing his gutsz oiut {buurp} if the talk radio folk don't gouge themselves  on a free speech feeding frenzy  at the expense of the poor slobs' carcass, unless of course, if not done faster than the employee does the

 

LARRY KING SHOW BACK TO BACK WITH ,WHAT'S HIS NAME, O' RULLEY .

 

Here's "talk'uun at ya'" and I'll have a double straight-up dry martini w/ 3 olives and give the tab to Ralph Nader pulease! No on second thought give the tab to any "Poly-Tickin" hack that will pick up a tab. I have decided that I will only accept 800 Vodlka Martini's this year... (taht grrrrrrrrreps! is 2400 olives), hiccup!.

 

As a matter of fact, I do not drink the booz, I  uh, luk, like ...lick  the Olives...  It becomes a unfortunate necessary task to strain the Vodlka to get at the finger licken guoood olives;  burp! hiccup! expletive!, if there are any California Olive Folk out there. I like the Big Green Ones with puurrrmentos in the center.

Absent a pimento, stuff it with a c-note;  Get a grip S.F. Chronicle... this is a  NEWS-GATE  or (G-Gate) if ever I heard one. IF "YOU" Don't have the goods on the editor, just forgive him and make a contribution to the next Minister of Shanghai's Campaign! GRRRRRESP! BURB!

 

Now that's the problem with Vodlka Martini's!!!

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