I was listening to MSNBC on the radio the other day when a feature came on entitled, the Good Life.’ They proceeded to discuss a $14,000 dessert being offered in Sri Lanka that included, amongst other things, an aquamarine. We need to know that we can provide for our families and be free of the pressure of struggling to make ends meet. This is how MSNBC characterizes the good life. This brings us to the argument that mainstream news organizations have recently been making against the Blogsphere, especially in the wake of such recent films as State of Play, directed by Kevin MacDonald, namely that the Blogsphere is composed primarily of amateurs who are out of their depth, whereas if you are looking for cutting-edge Woodward-and-Bernstein style in-depth reporting, you will find it only at the major news organizations who have the skills and resources at their disposal to support that kind of news coverage. In fact, in the ongoing Iranian uprisings, where mainstream journalists are being banned and extradited by the authoritarian Iranian regime, western news sources are having to rely on Twitter feeds, biogs and amateur video from Iranian citizens as their news sources. Olbermann suggests that the President was referring to Fox News. What Provides for a Satisfying Life? No kidding. The solution that Fox News apparently proposed was to dedicate a news channel to supposedly “fair and balanced” news coverage. I believe it is a trickle down effect from what they see being honoured in our society.
Their line-up of news shows supposedly offers us the alternative to Fox News, but, as implied by Keith Olbermann, what they are really offering us is left-wing propaganda that panders to the Osama administration. Horizon Cybermedia, meanwhile, is dedicated to producing fresh, insightful media content and to participating in the ongoing new media revolution! So if Growth in Income has not made People Happier than obviously they are not Living the Good Life In the United States, for example, the average persons income more than doubled between 1957 and 2002, yet the share of people reporting themselves to be “very happy” over that period remained static. We need to know that we can provide for our families and be free of the pressure of struggling to make ends meet. So much so that all other news agencies were too afraid even to question their authority. CNN even encourages you to submit amateur videos via the “report” section on their website, which allows them to feature the videos on their news shows after a process of vetting and verification. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955, attributed The Worldwide Institute in its 2004 State of the World report explains: Societies focused on well being involved more interaction with family, friends, and neighbours, a more direct experience of nature, and more attention to finding fulfilment and creative expression than in accumulating goods. Over time, their supposedly objective news coverage has been exposed as right-wing propaganda that was pretty blatantly pandering to the Bush administration while they were in power.
NBC pulled in $2.01 billion, up 9% from the $1.843 billion over the same time period a year ago. The network had five games from big TV series Thursday Night Football. CBS was next at $1.99 billion, virtually even with the $2.01 billion it scored a year ago. CBS gave up a few Thursday Night Football games -- now sharing the series with NBC. ABC was 14% higher at $1.29 billion versus $1.13 billion. Fox slipped 2.5% to $1.57 billion versus $1.61 billion. The CW rose 10% to $204.5 million from $186.5 million. Three broadcast networks -- NBC, CBS, and Fox -- pulled in around 40% of total national TV advertising revenues from NFL programming. The first half of the NFL season witnessed some viewership declines, but are now recovering slowly. Among the big cable TV networks, ESPN was virtually flat at $866.2 million against $867.9 million, while TNT was at $474.4 million against $402.2 million and USA Network was at $330.4 million versus $196.8 million. TV news channels did well, given the strong political TV advertising season.
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REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci 2/3 left right Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner leaves her home to go to court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October31, 2016. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci 3/3 By Hugh Bronstein | BUENOS AIRES BUENOS AIRES Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was indicted on Tuesday on charges she ran a corruption scheme with a public works secretary who was arrested in June while trying to stash millions of dollars in a convent. A federal judge accused them and other officials of the Fernandez administration of crimes "including the deliberate seizure of funds principally meant for public road works." Corruption charges have long swirled around Fernandez and her husband and predecessor, the late Nestor Kirchner. She denies wrongdoing and accuses Argentina's current leader, Mauricio Macri, of using the courts to persecute her. The country was riveted in June when Fernandez's former public works secretary, Jose Lopez, was arrested while tossing bags stuffed with millions of dollars over the walls of a Catholic convent on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. A gun-toting Lopez started hurling the money into the Our Lady of Fatima convent when the elderly nuns inside were slow to answer the door in the early morning hours of June 14, according to a neighbor who witnessed what happened and called 911. A surveillance video shows the nuns finally welcoming Lopez and accepting the cash while paying little attention to the automatic rifle he had placed by the convent door. Lopez and his direct boss, former Planning Minister Julio De Vido, were indicted along with Fernandez on Tuesday. The alleged skimming of road projects took place in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, where Fernandez lives. The ruling said the offenses took place until Dec. 9, 2015, Fernandez's last day as president after eight years in office.
(Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) Credit: Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Putin expressed hope that he would meet soon with Trump to discuss how to improve the two countries' relations. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) Credit: Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Putin is praising U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for keenly feeling American voters' mood to win the election, and he rejects the White House's accusations of meddling in the vote. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) Credit: Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016.
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In recent years, psychologists studying measures of life satisfaction have largely confirmed the old adage that money canst buy happiness — at least not for people who are already affluent. The disconnection between money and happiness in wealthy countries is perhaps most clearly illustrated when growth in income in industrial countries is plotted against levels of happiness. What Provides for a Satisfying Life? “Fair and balanced” became their watchword, but it soon proved to be ironic. We all need financial security. No kidding.
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