Olbermann and Countdown Do Not Go Digital
- Details
- Category: Robert Dexter
- Published on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:24
- Written by Robert Dexter
This week Keith Olbermann's new show premiered on Current TV but something unfortunate happened as a result. Within the minutes and hours of the initial broadcast, the www.currenttv.com/countdown comments sections were filling up with confusion, pleas, and outrage that Current TV was not airing the TV show online or in podcast form.
During the day today, Keith Olbermann via his twitter feed has been responding to a number of disgruntled fans about why Current is not airing broadcast online. He stated via twitter:
State Control Run Amok
- Details
- Category: Robert Dexter
- Published on Thursday, 09 June 2011 12:57
- Written by Robert Dexter
In many states all over the country, governors have been granted the right to dissolve local municipalities and appoint financial advisors in their place to over see regions or cities. In most cases, these cities or regions committed crimes or at minimum used their power and influence unethically (I.E Bell, CA) to turn local municipalities into their own crony driven fiefdom. When a governor takeover, most if not all elected member of the local or regional government is dismissed. They are essentially striped of their power to govern the local government they were elected to oversee. Gubernatorial appointed financial advisors have come in a fired staff, canceled contract, eliminated police forces, and threaten to sell off government property.
You call me a Cougar… I’ll call you a Navy Seal.
- Details
- Category: Robert Dexter
- Published on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:07
- Written by Robert Dexter
I was recently listening to an episode of NPR’s “What What Don’t Tell Me” and I was laughing out loud while riding the bus to work. Among the many jokes being cracked about the anonymity of members of Seal Team Six, including that in bars all across America, 40 million men will have now joined the ranks of Seal Team Six. It was eventually summed up by Amy Dickerson cracking a joke pick-up line “You call me a Cougar and I’ll call you a Navy Seal.” This stimulated my noodle. Does the now iconic idea of Seal Team Six embody a confidence in America that Americans were looking for?
The Monopolizing of the Internet
- Details
- Category: Robert Dexter
- Published on Thursday, 02 December 2010 13:43
- Written by Robert Dexter
There has been a lot of controversy in the last year regarding how the Internet is changing traditional social interactions, politics, diplomacy, governing, etc. Recently, Wikileaks was back in the news for releasing confidential communications between American Diplomats. Facebook was in the news for security lapses that released personal data to third party vendors without the consent of its users. Unfortunately, Wikileaks and Facebook are peanuts to the blatant manipulation and disregard for net neutrality that is spawning out the big Internet corporate titans like Google and mega service providers like Comcast.
