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Forbes eyed SD for Amazon and got it wrong
Hi Don, Forbes Magazine is a different entity from Forbes online. Forbes online has pivoted to become a content platform...from my experience (I know some of these people), they'll let anyone write any crap they want with no editorial oversight. They monetize the clicks, so they really don't care. Some of the writers even pay for the privilege, so they can claim to be "a writer at Forbes". (I turned them down.) "Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only, fee-based organization comprised of leading CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Members are hand-selected by the Council's selection committee. Find out if you qualify at forbestechcouncil.com/qualify."— January 23, 2018 1:11 p.m.
SDSU’s very own bulldozer city?
CSU claims to offer, "high-quality, accessible, student-focused higher education". Okay. So what has that got to do with sports? How does education go along with SDSU's expensive yet always losing football program, for example? Maybe we could phrase it as a simple question: 1. Education is to Brain Injury a. as Medicine is to Wound b. as Football is to Intellect c. as Administrators are to Teaching d. as Money is to Morality Nobody can defend what the co-mingling of sports and education has created in America, from grade school to universities. Football and cheering replace learning and culture, substituting force and superficiality for erudition and achievement. SDSU can actually afford to provide a great deal more high-quality, accessible, student-focused higher education by eliminating the sports teams entirely, and redirecting the coaches salaries to actual professors, or replacing the massive playing fields and training complexes to educational uses.— June 24, 2017 12:53 a.m.
Gordon Kovtun is an engineer, not a gay porn star
This smells rotten, like a fishing expedition, looking to cut off the heads off those who dare speak against the wealthy and well-connected. I'll assert with 100% confidence that Erik Hanson is NOT the author of these juvenile prank sites. No reasonable person would name him as a suspect. Yet the lawyers on the payroll of the oligarchs who want to permanently deface the city's crown jewel bandy him about, effectively punishing him for exercising his civic duty to publicly oppose bad policy. I am also confident that the entire suspects list is exclusively populated by opponents to this project. So these half-bright legal goons are goose-stepping to the courts to flim-flam fig-leafs for law enforcement to get microscopic on any who dare speak up about a bridge and parking project. It's not enough to use sock-puppets, buy-off politicians, hire former journalists to soft serve smarm. These tricksters have got a new rabbit to pull out of their black top hats. The billionaire class, and their minions, can mysteriously encounter and be deeply injured by prank sites, perhaps created by their own puerile minded associates, which any reasonable person would laugh off and ignore (seems you had to go out of your way to find them, almost like someone knew where to look). Abracadabra, hocus-pocus, there's a reason to dig into the online records of critics of the magic money boy's pet project. Erik, though I've never met you, we've interacted in comments for years. Having also dared criticize the San Diego oligarchs, I could easily find myself in your shoes, publicly framed, named as a suspect, facing the prospect of investigation on the basis of this stinky fish story. Have you contacted the Institute for Justice? http://ij.org/ Their lawyers and volunteers may be interested in representing your interests...— June 24, 2017 12:38 a.m.
Dana Middle School students given small New Testaments
I'll be there tomorrow at the same place handing out these: https://shopsatan.com/products/the-satanic-childr…— June 5, 2017 6:18 a.m.
U-T using charities to boost circulation
http://visegradrevue.eu/who-owns-the-czech-media/— May 2, 2017 3:45 a.m.
U-T using charities to boost circulation
The news is not good for newspaper reporters: http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/worst-jobs-2… http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/worst-jobs-2… http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/worst-jobs-2…— April 30, 2017 11:54 p.m.
The push for a U-T advisory board that isn’t one-sided
Effete navel gazing, or a ravenous Ouroboros? Either way, you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the UT advisory board. The history of how the city became deep in debt, with pension promises that will never be kept, white elephant sports subsidies, and PR reps masquerading as political leaders will prominently feature, in a place of deep shame, the names of precisely these "advisors" to the UT. Kudos to Mr. Light for showcasing San Diego's skankiest scum.— April 29, 2017 10:22 p.m.
San Diego grand jury challenges city council on transparency law
The rule change was to expose, "anonymous limited partners potentially receiving millions in taxpayer dollars without the city council knowing who they were." It would be difficult and time consuming to dig through and try to find that information, if not outright impossible. So it's mere speculation on my part to guess that disgraced former city manager Jack McGrory was frequently one of those "anonymous limited partners".— April 29, 2017 9:53 p.m.
U-T using charities to boost circulation
UT out of print by the end of 2020. Don, would you take the under or over on such a wager? I think I'd go for the under, and say it's done and over earlier than 2020. (And that's not a good thing! Loss of local news coverage fundamentally damages the health of democracy. Even while pumping sports coverage over all else, the UT still sometimes stumbles onto a story worth telling.)— April 29, 2017 9:32 p.m.
Real job, fake news
When will The Reader staff write about the surprisingly high number of former journalists who now work for the politicians. Gerry Braun and David Rolland come to mind...and there are many others. The article could also compare the salaries and benefits of journalism versus government jobs. It would also be intriguing to track the mental shift, going from looking to expose the truth, to telling a convincing story...or find instances where the former "journalists" weren't much into their job from the beginning, and have found their natural homes as mouthpieces. (Or the opposite...someone who hates themselves for selling out?) I think that kind of exposure would be very revealing.— April 20, 2017 1:41 a.m.