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Bad ethics are ethics too... As we are fond of saying at MLN... Time for a Bloggers ethics panel, right?
Maybe we should have a Bloggers ethics panel because some in the traditional media could learn from it.
Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
5/6/07
GOP Death Spiral Continues - Moderates Leaving Them
Newsweek covers the continued hemorrhaging of moderates from the GOP that end up joining the more fiscally responsible and moderately conservative Democratic party.
I am sure that some of them will end up in the Libertarian party, and or backing other non-GOP, and therefore more likely real, conservative candidates and parties, but the truth is many will follow on the heels of those like former Reagan Republican Markos Moulitsas and try and make the Democratic party even more conservative than it already is.
The fact is that the Republican party has continued to margenalize itself by pandering to radicals, continuous efforts to be unethical whenever given the oportunies, their inability to accept responsibility for any of their inumerable failures, and showing a complete lack of logic in their unending support of bush.
Little wonder why moderate voters are jumping ship from the GOP. It won't be long before the political rats in office start following their base in an effort to hide from their sinking GOP ship. It won't help them much because those rats have already been tagged with "GOP failures tracking devices" throughout the Blogosphere. Thanks Tehnorati! heh
Susan Eisenhower is an accomplished professional, the president of an international consulting firm. She also happens to be Ike's granddaughter—and in that role, she's the humble torchbearer for moderate "Eisenhower Republicans." Increasingly, however, she says that the partisanship and free spending of the Bush presidency—and the takeover of the party by single-issue voters, especially pro-lifers—is driving these pragmatic, fiscally conservative voters out of the GOP. Eisenhower says she could vote Democratic in 2008, but she's still intent on saving her party. "I made a pact with a number of people," she tells NEWSWEEK. "I said, 'Please don't leave the party without calling me first.' For a while, there weren't too many calls. And then suddenly, there was a flurry of them. I found myself watching them slip away one by one."
I am sure that some of them will end up in the Libertarian party, and or backing other non-GOP, and therefore more likely real, conservative candidates and parties, but the truth is many will follow on the heels of those like former Reagan Republican Markos Moulitsas and try and make the Democratic party even more conservative than it already is.
The fact is that the Republican party has continued to margenalize itself by pandering to radicals, continuous efforts to be unethical whenever given the oportunies, their inability to accept responsibility for any of their inumerable failures, and showing a complete lack of logic in their unending support of bush.
Little wonder why moderate voters are jumping ship from the GOP. It won't be long before the political rats in office start following their base in an effort to hide from their sinking GOP ship. It won't help them much because those rats have already been tagged with "GOP failures tracking devices" throughout the Blogosphere. Thanks Tehnorati! heh
4/30/07
Get Bucks To Blog For ThinkProgress
Just think of all the skittles and beers you could buy!
I think it is safe to say that Republicans need not apply, unless they have no scruples? (Which is usually the case. heh)
Just do us all a favour and PLEASE disclose that you are paid by ThinkProgress should you be one of the ones that gets the gig. Keep it honest and ethical. Nobody wants to be the next Dan Gerstein...
New Fellows Program:
Get Paid To Blog For ThinkProgress:
"Today, ThinkProgress is launching a blog fellows program.
ThinkProgress Fellows will be drawn directly from our readership and other progressive blogs, and will become an integral part of our team — writing for ThinkProgress and the Progress Report e-newsletter, monitoring media outlets and conducting other research projects.
Fellows will serve six-month terms, receive a monetary stipend ($3,000), and travel to Washington D.C. for a weekend of training at the Center for American Progress. You’ll be asked to work about 20 hours/week, and you don’t need to reside in Washington.
Applying is easy: just fill out this application and submit it to tpfellows@americanprogressaction.org by May 6. You can also email that address with questions."
I think it is safe to say that Republicans need not apply, unless they have no scruples? (Which is usually the case. heh)
Just do us all a favour and PLEASE disclose that you are paid by ThinkProgress should you be one of the ones that gets the gig. Keep it honest and ethical. Nobody wants to be the next Dan Gerstein...
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