http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/06/07/the-thursday-line Comments On: The Thursday line by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:21:24 -0500 Arkansas Times
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This is what being "spiritual" gets you.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:31:28 -0500 Arkansas Times
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Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:20:36 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Carrick Patterson]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:58:22 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:47:21 -0500 Arkansas Times
The disturbing thing is that labor can never match the contributions of the Koch brothers, who seem to be willing to spend whatever is necessary to buy this country.

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Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:54:10 -0500 Arkansas Times >that the vote was a big defeat for "big labor,"...<<

Shows you how un astute or inastute Ch 11 can be. In fact it was Walker's pitting other labor unions against AFSCME that scored him some big points. So it was a big labor election and certain big labor helped re elect Walker.

If he tries to make Wisconsin like Ark, a right-to-be-fired-at-will state, then he would lose.

Gov Walker never touched fire and police unions. He was after the water workers, teachers, gov clerks, trash haulers.

If I've correctly understood the election results Walker's Repub party did lose control of the state senate. So his wings were clipped significantly.

Of course NO TV station is going to ever mention the millions spent on campaigns anywhere. TV stations get the lion's share of the spending.
for now.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:45:16 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Claude Bahls]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:56:57 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Claude Bahls]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:53:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:28:45 -0500 Arkansas Times
A rare beauty with a antiques mall here puts up a picture and 20 minutes later marks it SOLD! She's knocking them out of the park everyday. Did I mention she's drop dead gorgeous! Maybe we can have a whole thread about her someday!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:08:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
Lots of money was spent in that Recall election. It set a record for political spending on a governor's race. But, there was one other statewide campaign where much more was spent.

This is for you folks who think money doesn't matter in political campaigns. The mother's milk of politics can change a pig's ear into a silk purse.

In Mar 67% favored an initiated act until Big Money got into the mix.
Rachael tells the story, using nothing but facts:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/47…
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:48:42 -0500 Arkansas Times
I say promise of targeting because I have not yet met anyone who has ever bought anything from a facebook ad, which seem to be mostly cause-driven (of the Click Here to Stop Obama variety).

And it remains to be seen how users will like Aunt Mary's status being shoved down the page by a McDonald's promotion, now that businesses can buy higher placement in your newsfeed. The smarter fb gets in monetizing those eyeballs by reordering what you see in your feed, the less valuable it becomes to you.

When people are looking to buy something, to spend money, they aren't on facebook. They're on google. Which leaves pure impressions, branding, and relationship-building for fb, all things on which the ROI is not clear-cut and therefore the price is lower. Much lower.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:41:37 -0500 Arkansas Times