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Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

Jonzee — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:53:00 -0000

Unfortunately, I from Ohio. GM and Ford were how working class folks made it to the middle class.

Though I grew up in NY, I have been hearing for 20 years this story. Ohio was doing quite well from 87 to 2000. What a difference 8 years of GW makes. The events after 911 have had a significant impact to the near Midwest.

It would have been interesting to see this story talk about Ohio's (and Michigan and Indiana) push to develop Green Collar jobs--something that all of the candidates (not so sure about Republican candidates) have talked about.

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

Setare — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:38:00 -0000

That said, it does feature Clinton much more than it should! (At the very least, it should have featured her less uncritically.)

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

Setare — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:31:00 -0000

Thanks for posting this, dnA. The aesthetics of the piece are so remarkable: no maudlin music, no obnoxious narrator (as you mentioned), and no stupid graphics. Just the eloquence of the interviewees and the heartbreaking landscape.

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

Town — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:16:00 -0000

Off topic:

Hillary says she's staying in the race because RFK was shot in June.

http://www.nypost.com/seven...

This fool is inviting something to happen on Obama. Kinda makes sense with all the race baiting and agitation she's done.

She needs a bright yellow straitjacket to go along with that pantsuit.

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

Craig Hickman — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:56:00 -0000

I have many brothers in Dayton. Drug trafficking is all there is for them to make a living. As I wrote in my book:

Dayton is a depressing place with littered, abandoned lots, boarded-up buildings, and burnt front lawns. There are more police cars driving down the streets than in any place Craig has ever been, including Paris. Butch, who rattles off facts and trivia and whole philosophies with the convincing authority of a college professor, claims the city is the biggest crossroads of the drug trade in North America. A few miles north of Dayton, Interstate 70 (which runs from Baltimore, Maryland to Cove Fort, Utah, where it connects with Interstate 15, which runs from San Diego to Sweetgrass, Montana) and Interstate 75 (which runs from Miami, Florida to the Canadian border at the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) intersect.

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That was an impressive story. The one on Appalachia was just as revealing.

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

nigel — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:52:00 -0000

Wow. Deep. I'm speechless. Imagine if stories like that were on the nightly news on a regular basis.

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

The Christian Progressive Libe — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:21:00 -0000

It says that media outlets outside America are more willing to tell the truth than our own so-called, "Mainstream Media".

Fake News thinks we'd rather hear about the latest Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan meltdown, than to hear about how Bush has economically screwed the country.

Who knows? Maybe those Appalachian Mountain Folk would get a clue if they were actually told the truth in accurate reporting...

Re: Al Jazeera In Ohio

DWS — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:19:00 -0000

Wow, I know so many people who worked at that plant as interns, engineers and on the assembly line. It's hard seeing Dayton like this.