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People want to eat but they won’t join the hunt

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rufus Dogg
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Most people wear your web site, twitter feed or facebook page like they wear a jacket or drive their car. When they want to use it, they do. When they don’t, it is out of sight and out of mind. … Continue reading →

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The killing of Osama bin Laden

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Rufus Dogg
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As the media launches it’s way into the play-by-play analysis of the Osama bin Laden raid, I’m left here struggling to figure out how I feel about the whole thing. I have come to the conclusion that I feel the … Continue reading →

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Is this thing on?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Rufus Dogg
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In a word, yes. This thing is always on. The photo to the right was tweeted out by Jim Long who is a “veteran, Washington, DC based, network news cameraman currently working for one of the original three broadcasters” (@newmediajim) … Continue reading →

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Why we are engineered for another 9/11; the TSA is working backwards

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Rufus Dogg
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The media and blogosphere is going nuts with this recent hulla-balloo over the TSA pat-downs and full-body scanners. In news segment after segment, after the guest tirades about lack of privacy, dignity, pornography scan and whatever else is the convenient … Continue reading →

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Real election reform ideas

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Rufus Dogg
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This is a very strange election cycle. I think a lot of people are floating ideas ahead of the 2012 presidential election that will be mind-blowing and head-spinning. 2012 may see the electorate perhaps as divided than we were during … Continue reading →

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So like sheep, these media types

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Rufus Dogg
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Lifted from telegraph.co.uk BBC Do social sites like Facebook connect the world or isolate people? Undergraduate Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University claims to know the answer and has researched this question for a senior paper that was published in Cyberpsychology, … Continue reading →

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Shifting words to maintain the “incumbent” narrative

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Rufus Dogg
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Did you notice it last night as the primary election results were coming in? The media narrative of “anti-incumbent” is not meshing with the reality, so the use of “incumbent” is being quietly shoved under the rug for words like … Continue reading →

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