It’s Saturday morning, and I’m headed into Honolulu with some errands to run, so little time to blog this a.m.
Just a few recommendations, if you missed these items.
• Rick Daysog’s “buyer beware” story about an apparent vacation rental scam on the North Shore. With the popularity of do-it-yourself-online vacation rentals, this is probably something that happens more frequently than we know, although perhaps in less dramatic fashion.
• Also on the vacation rental issue, do check out Joan Conrow’s account of the questionable history of a Kauai vacation rental known as Hale Hoku. It’s the latest entry in what is so far a 13-part series digging into the transient vacation rental issue, Kauai politics, etc. It is award winning quality and deserves a much higher profile.
• For an meaty critique of the “tech fetishism” in higher education, check out Leslie Madsen-Brooks’s piece on the Blue Review Blog (“The University’s Minimum Viable Product“).
• And check out FAIR’s brief critique of NY Times writer John Burns’ reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy (“Thatcher Lifted Millions–Says Who?“).
FAIR observes:
In some ways, the reporting on Thatcher is an interesting counterpart to reporting on the Hugo Chavez legacy in Venezuela. In the latter case, plenty of economic evidence indicates life massively improved for the poor–but reports tend to stress the crime, inflation and so on. In the case of Thatcher, the consensus view in the media seems to be that she made life better. But the numbers suggest otherwise–which is probably why reporters tend to not cite anything at all.
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Thanks, Ian. The FAIR commentary comparing the coverage of Chavez’s death with that of Maggie Thatcher was excellent.
The devotion of the US ruling elite to the British ruling elite is not just a cultural or familial connection. And not just because they are a convenient English-speaking source for cultural programs that make a wealthy aristocracy look benign (Downton Abbey, etc.).
The British financial elite is still one of the dominant concentrations of economic and, ergo, political power in the world. And the Anglo-American Axis has withstood the test of time as a convenient partnership (for the elites) to control the rest of the world. What a grand partnership it is. And every subject had better be happy about it.