Sun
Jan 20 2013
01:50 pm
By: Mark Harmon
I have had several pleasant conversations with Victor Ashe. This article from the New York Daily News, also linked on Huffington Post is worthy of our notice and discussion.
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Though it names no names, the
What ya gonna say? Doesn't surprise me.
Again, what ya gonna say?
Actually, Victor is in the
Actually, Victor is in the right on this one. He does his homework and whoever got him appointed should have known he wouldn't treat the job as an honorary position.
Further information
Victor Ashe has sent to me the following bits of additional information:
1) The union representing representing most Broadcasting Board of Governor employees being very critical of the report, and thus more supportive of Ashe's actions:
(link...)
2) A site for more complaints about BBG:
(link...)
I know what it's like to raise questions that are unwanted by an entrenched panel, so I appreciated the information.
I know what it's like to
I know what it's like to raise questions that are unwanted by an entrenched panel
Been there, done that, gave up. Hizzoner has more staying power than I do. It's the bulldog, I guess.
a National Review article on the matter
(in reply to Rachel)
(link...)
Looks like Hillary's on
(in reply to Pickens)
Looks like Hillary's on Victor's side:
Even most Washingtonians have never heard of these bodies, so it was a great surprise when Mrs. Clinton, in her farewell address to Washington, delivered the following brutal and apparently off-the-cuff judgment on the BBG: “We have abdicated the broadcasting arena. . . . Our Broadcasting Board of Governors is practically defunct in terms of its capacity to be able to tell a message around the world.”
Along with NATO. Which
(in reply to metulj)
Along with NATO. Which should have been disbanded once the Wall fell.