OP ED
When a “clean-up” isn’t.
By Jes Alexander on July 5, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) – So it’s raining oil in New Orleans. How is this possible? Simple. You see, British Petroleum isn’t “cleaning up” their disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, they’re making things worse. I’ll explain.
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First and foremost, do you remember the water cycle, people? You needed to learn it to get out of grade school. Water is evaporated off the oceans, builds into clouds, and when they get saturated, it rains. Now take the above and add the smoke pouring off the surface of the Gulf, where BP is burning off the spilled crude oil. Yep, the oily smoke rises, gets hung up in the saturating clouds, and bingo … oily rain.What BP Isn’t telling you: This isn’t just an American problem
By Jes Alexander on June 21, 2010
So much of the handling of this BP Oil Disaster (a name for this mess we are advocating as it does not downgrade the situation, since IT’S NOT A SPILL) has been left to BP, out of the hands of the international science community and away from US federal agencies, I thought I might remind you all of what might happen if this hemorrhaging of crude oil is allowed to continue much longer:
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Think Gulf Stream.REBUTTAL: To NYT OP ED “This Time Is Different”
By Jes Alexander on June 13, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) – Dear Thomas L. Friedman: I read your OP ED in the New York Times this morning, and while I would have replied to you there, the NYT doesn’t seem to welcome comments from a competitor, anymore. It is so horribly sad that, “All the news that’s fit to [...]
Continue ReadingRandom Notes #3
By Herald de Paris Contributor's Bureau on June 8, 2010
By Michael Levine
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LOS ANGELES (Herald de Paris) – CEO Michael Levine, founder of PR powerhouse LCO, drops by with another installment of his observations on life:
1. Things that are guaranteed to piss me off: hidden fees, calling a business and not getting a human on the phone, people who use cell phones while driving, incomprehensible [...]For the Fellas That Ain’t Here, A Memorial Day tribute
By Al Carlos Hernandez on June 1, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Herald de Paris) – On this Memorial Day, as we reflect on the untimely loss of brothers and sisters who fought and won our freedoms, it reminds me of a street tradition that we had that many working men still maintain. The tradition was that before we would take a drink, someone would [...]
Continue ReadingGulf ecological (and eventual economic) disaster was avoidable
By Jes Alexander on May 30, 2010
Minimizing the environmental damage could have been done with existing and conventional means, only, neither BP nor the US Government seem particularly interested in mitigating the ecological disaster. I used to think it was because it would cost too much, but it’s just the opposite – there simply isn’t enough profit in containing the oil now flowing freely into the Gulf.
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In French, there is a word for this, “dégoût.”It’s NOT a Spill.
By Jes Alexander on May 28, 2010
A spin around the airwaves, the – umm – cablewaves, and the news media headlines this morning revealed a most disturbing trend in the news media’s coverage of the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: This fiasco is being seriously downplayed.
Continue ReadingPot, Kettle, Black.
By Jes Alexander on May 25, 2010
It was bad enough when we were ripped off by Gawker, last week. I wasn’t particularly surprised that I did not get even a simply courtesy reply from the Lord of the Gawkers. But to find the Jezebel/Gawker group to be openly calling out Y108 for EXACTLY what Gawker did to us and refused to acknowledge, well, that thrusts this whole unseemly mess into a bottom-feeding frenzy lower than I ever imagined.
Continue ReadingPlagiarism and the Web: A Blunt Look at How the ‘Net Redefines Ethics
By Herald de Paris Contributor's Bureau on May 24, 2010
By Kirsten Brownrigg
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COLUMBUS, OH (Herald de Paris) – Hello, Gawker. Allow me to introduce myself. I’m the reporter whose material you recently plagiarized for one of your articles.
The content in question came from a profile The Herald de Paris published on Ladd Ehlinger, Jr., just hours after his political ad for an Alabama candidate went [...]REMEMBER DO-OVERS? THEY’RE BACK.
By Murray Chass on May 13, 2010
The Associated Press’s mission is to report the news, not make it. The news agency’s executives will tell you that. They tell their reporters that. If I can remember that many years ago, I was told that when I started out in this business working for the AP.
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The other day, though, the AP made news. [...]
