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Gotta get in before the lock - and the keys are thrown away.

”only if you choose to be”. That there is brilliant. One doesn’t necessarily choose the dung he’s walking in - he only knows he’s walking in it and it stinks — Proverbs RB 5.23.21

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36 minutes ago, richieb said:

”only if you choose to be”. That there is brilliant.

Thank you. 

36 minutes ago, richieb said:

One doesn’t necessarily choose the dung he’s walking in - he only knows he’s walking in it and it stinks —

Sure. Otoh,  if you are only focusing on dung then you miss the value of having a cow...

 

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36 minutes ago, Zen Traveler said:

Thank you. 

Sure. Otoh,  if you are only focusing on dung then you miss the value of having a cow...

 


I’m looking at a herd of 40 as I type — 🐄

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Imo, not very many things are the same insofar as media is concerned when so many people derive their opinion from social media--In 2016 it was reported that close to 50% of Americans  got their "news" from there and shared misinformation with like-minded folks...

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If one watches the "Director's commentary" version of the film, where Sidney Lumet discusses what he and Paddy were thinking and intending when the film was made, as the film plays, scene by scene, there would be a whole lotta people who would never use this as an example method to make their particular "points". 

 

Diana Christensen's "News Hour" was Paddy's foretelling of the "tabloidification" of news, with soothsayers, angle grinders, and other charlatans.....back during a day when news existed for public service instead of profit (most news stuff were loss leaders done for the purpose of public service). When one of the networks (ABC I think) was looked at for purchase by a larger corporation Paddy said "Oh, no, this is our undoing".

 

Paddy saw the future.

 

"We'll tell you any ---- you want to hear." - Howard Beale

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6 hours ago, Zen Traveler said:

Only if you choose to be...

 

One doesn't get to choose the path...............only how he walks it.

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3 hours ago, Audible Nectar said:

If one watches the "Director's commentary" version of the film, where Sidney Lumet discusses what he and Paddy were thinking and intending when the film was made, as the film plays, scene by scene, there would be a whole lotta people who would never use this as an example method to make their particular "points". 

 

Diana Christensen's "News Hour" was Paddy's foretelling of the "tabloidification" of news, with soothsayers, angle grinders, and other charlatans.....back during a day when news existed for public service instead of profit (most news stuff were loss leaders done for the purpose of public service). When one of the networks (ABC I think) was looked at for purchase by a larger corporation Paddy said "Oh, no, this is our undoing".

 

Paddy saw the future.

 

"We'll tell you any ---- you want to hear." - Howard Beale

Broadcast licenses were awarded and continued on the basis of complying with a certain amount of "public service," as an FCC requirement.  Calling them a "loss leader" is not very accurate in a business sense of the word.

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41 minutes ago, geezin' said:

 

One doesn't get to choose the path...............only how he walks it.

"If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice"

 

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19 minutes ago, oldtimer said:

"If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice"

 

Walking the path quietly is a choice............is it not?

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