peajay
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Post by peajay on Mar 6, 2013 21:35:57 GMT -5
From a web site which features news snippets from 100 years ago: " Today -100: March 6, 1913: Of cabinets, cigars, and cats and miceAfter months of the press bugging Woodrow Wilson to give a hint as to his cabinet nominees, today he finally made his choices public when he sent his cabinet nominations to the Senate. They were all confirmed by the end of day. BY THE END OF THE DAY. Seven have already been sworn in, and the rest will be tomorrow. ..." whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/Note that this was during the era of March presidential inaugurations. I think FDR's second in 37 was the first to move to January.
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Post by Rasheed World Peace on Mar 12, 2013 15:41:03 GMT -5
The January inaugurations coincided with my (late) father's birthday.
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Post by Rasheed World Peace on Mar 14, 2013 11:16:35 GMT -5
At first I couldn't understand why the media, ordinarily antagonistic towards Catholics, was so smoochly-butt in its coverage of the new Pope. But I was finally able to connect the dots thanks to this paragraph from today's NY Times --
"But the choice also may provide a strategic boost to the church in the United States, where its following would have lost ground in recent decades were it not for the influx of Latino immigrants, who have increasingly asserted themselves as a cultural and political force, and played a critical role in President Obama’s re-election."
If you're important to keeping Obama in power, well that's different.
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Post by Rasheed World Peace on Mar 15, 2013 15:23:24 GMT -5
I see you peeking in there, dude. Where's your incisive comeback?
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Post by peajay on Mar 15, 2013 16:13:18 GMT -5
I suppose I was not aware the media was (were?) antagonistic to the Catholic Church...
I was wondering why a new leader of a particular religion (any of them) required a full 30-minute block on what is normally a "World headlines" type of 30-minute programme...
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Post by Rasheed World Peace on Mar 18, 2013 12:05:03 GMT -5
Well, it's the same church supplying a constant parade of million-dollar settlements and fueling investigative reports into priests' sexual shenannigans. The daily negative narrative that's been in the headlines for years. I suppose that these are often at the top of the page on CNN impressed me that the media felt some kind of need to emphasize the news.
The favorable coverage of the new Pope, and its extent, must spring from a different source. There are plenty of Catholic TV viewers, for one. And the Pope is a type of medieval royalty -- it may be the same type of fascination the news media have shown toward Queen Elizabeth.
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peajay
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Post by peajay on Mar 18, 2013 18:42:12 GMT -5
"And the Pope is a type of medieval royalty -- it may be the same type of fascination the news media have shown toward Queen Elizabeth. "
That is very probably right.
I seem to recall we did something a couple of centuries ago so we no longer had to fawn over the royals...
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Post by Rasheed World Peace on Mar 19, 2013 11:29:46 GMT -5
Became Puritans?
(And my second guess...)
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Post by peajay on Mar 19, 2013 22:07:48 GMT -5
Yeah, that was it!
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Post by Rasheed World Peace on Mar 26, 2013 12:08:34 GMT -5
Got to love the black hats.
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