Tag Archives: USA
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My two cents about the WaPo loss
Posted on June 25, 2010 by Lene Johansen in Blog.So yes, the Conservative clergy won a tiny victory today with Dave’s resignation from the post. The conservative movement has lost big time. Why? There is no mainstream media outlet with a staff reporter to give the movement a clear eyed chronicle and a correcting voice.
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Advice for the old media rear guard
Posted on June 7, 2010 by Lene Johansen in Blog.Helen Thomas spoke her mind, instead of the sanitized, depersonalized version she would have given a fellow reporter, because she did not recognize a citizen reporter when she saw one. Now her career is over. Old media establishment 0 – New media establishment 1.
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Judicious use of Hansen’s many hats
Posted on May 18, 2010 by Lene Johansen in Blog.I first wondered why a federal employee who does not work for the state department was writing letters to the Norwegian Prime Minister, instructing the Minister how to conduct foreign policy. I would think that Ambassador Barry B. White would be a more appropriate spokesperson.
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Not Evil Just Wrong lesson plan FINALLY published!
Posted on February 20, 2010 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.I tried to make the Not Evil Just Wrong lessons interactive and hands-on. I focused on science literacy, fact checking, understanding the nature of scientific knowledge, understanding of what happens to science when it steps into the policy scene, and fundamental understanding of economic and political dynamics.
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Tea party Confidential
Posted on January 29, 2010 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.I worked as a local reporter in Missouri, and I recognize all the Tea Party sentiments from the people I covered there. It is not so prevalent on the East coast, but the ideas and the sentiments are definitely familiar to me after six years in the Midwest. This is Middle America speaking in a way they haven’t in many years.
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Nobel chair uses Obama for personal publicity purposes
Posted on October 14, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.Most of the world, including President Barack Obama, woke up last Friday to quite a surprise. But the real story is that Thorbjørn Jagland, the new committee chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, wanted to start his tenure with a splash. He had promised insiders a winner that would gain international recognition.
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Nobeloney
Posted on October 12, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Media.Norwegian tells G. Gordon Liddy that Obama got the award for not being Bush, and that Norwegian’s are furious with the decision.
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What was Norway thinking?
Posted on October 10, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Clip Book.This was the question my friend Iain Murray sent me yesterday morning. He went ahead and posted my reply over at the Corner, National Review’s blog. Here is a excerpt:
One person that did predict this result was Gerhard Helskog, an experienced reporter covering the foreign desk for TV2, the largest private newsnetwork in Norway. He said the new committee chair, Torbjørn Jagland like to think big, and Obama was big in Jagland’s eyes.
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Lakey’s rosy glasses
Posted on July 13, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Blog.The only thing that places Obama on the right wing of the Norwegian political scale is how much government intervention that is politically possible in U.S. politics. With an electorate that is strong supporters of decentralized government and private solutions, he can only propose so many centralized, big government solutions without reducing his office to irrelevance and certain loss in the next election.
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Scientific Newspeak from Obama administration
Posted on May 7, 2009 by Lene Johansen in Blog.For all the pledges Obama issued about basing his administration on scientific fact, it lasted three months, three months and seven days to be exact. The political reality finally caught up with him. Obama stopped saying swine flu and started using the much more awkward and inaccurate H1N1 and Vilsack was sent on the mission of explaining the administrations Newspeak.
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