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Why we don't get money. [Mar. 1st, 2013|09:47 am]
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From:[info]ulvs
Date:March 1st, 2013 - 11:37 am
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20 minutes?! maybe we can get a quick review? a one that consists of few sentences.
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From:[info]brookings
Date:March 1st, 2013 - 12:14 pm
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oi the younger generation..:)
tur bija rakstiits zem video

"He explained why he himself didn’t get money:

“Why didn’t I get money?”

- “I didn’t have to! I didn’t know I could get it, no-one was asking me to get it, and my day-to-day job was trying to find out what a derivative was and how it related to gold.”

And then he listed some further reasons why the journalists and the media don’t understand money:

- Journalists are no smarter than the rest of us.

- They flock to those in power – and he said, “power” can also be expressed in terms of huge amounts of wealth, rather than a formal position.

- It’s not in the interests of those in power to speak to journalists about how money is made and its consequences.

- They are under no pressure to understand from editors (who don’t understand either).

- The audience isn’t clamouring to understand where money comes from. They might not even know that they do not know.

- They are understaffed and under pressure, which leads to fast writing. This situation doesn’t lend itself to deep thought.

- They are pack animals, there are few real contrarians.

- They have their own ideology – which is often that of the paper.

- Fear of backlash (flak)."
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From:[info]begemots
Date:March 1st, 2013 - 12:27 pm
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Essentially the same reasons as for most of other crowd activities then? :)
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From:[info]brookings
Date:March 1st, 2013 - 12:50 pm
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Well yeah - and even though they don't get money, they do got paid.
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From:[info]ulvs
Date:March 1st, 2013 - 04:40 pm
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Why thank you. My youthful eyes didn't notice the text underneath the video. The picture is much clearer now.
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From:[info]brookings
Date:March 1st, 2013 - 05:20 pm
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all that darting about looking for links to pornographic sites, I shouldn't wonder

(though that alien was quite ... impressive)