I don't know. Maybe it's just me.
I read today's big headlines about a 'controversy' with Judy Steigler's picture and went, "Oh, Oh, the Bulletin's going after our Democratic representative again."
But you read the article, and she has almost nothing to do with the 'pay cut' or the restoration thereof. Other than being married to a prosecutor. In fact, she voted FOR the pay cut.
Frankly, I doubt her political ethics are really challenged by a 5k cut in pay; and she has yet to vote the second time.
But if you were a casual browser of the paper, like so many people are, you might put the two together; Stiegler = Controversy.
Like I said, maybe I'm reading too much into it.
One things for sure. H. Bruce Miller's column in the Source, and my little blog, hasn't seemed to chasten the Bulletin.
Or, in the case of my blog, my little flea bite on their butt didn't even make them itch....
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I'm always left scratching my head when I read things like this because I seriously think people who live here really know the standing of their community. Time and time again I hear how so many people hate Bend because of how liberal it is. Just because a ton has "art" (I use the term loosely) doesn't mean it is liberal just like just because certain people have money doesn't mean they're conservative. The tone of the local paper usually is a fairly good way of gauging the political temperature. Articles like this say two things: we prescribe to the Fox News knee jerk reaction of news telling without getting all the details and The Bulletin must really have no stories to tell. After reading the article I can say this was almost a non-story.
Wow. You would never see the sort of anti-Facebook critics "news piece" that is in the Bulletin today in any normal news outlet:
Facebook data center critic isn’t entirely green either
WTF sort of tit-for-tat bullsheeeat is that?
Facebook said in a written statement that it chose Prineville for the data center because of the cool, windy environment, which the company will use to cool the data center, thus reducing the amount of energy needed. Using wind for cooling instead of an air conditioning system saves energy and money, Facebook said in the statement.
If I could sell Facebook short, I would on statements like this.
HELLO! Prineville is a SUPER-HEATED, WINDLESS OVEN IN THE SUMMER! My Lord.
And I suppose in the Winter, when Priney is a solid block of ice, Facebork will just open the screen door on that data center. Dumbfahks.
Greenpeace is an international company that has offices in New York and San Francisco.
Its San Francisco office isn’t entirely carbon-free. Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which provides energy to San Francisco, including Greenpeace’s office, gets the largest amount of its energy from natural gas, another nonrenewable resource.
Kessler [GREENPEACE LACKEY] said one can’t compare Greenpeace’s operations with Facebook’s. The amount of energy required to power a data center — which uses a high amount of power to keep rows of computer servers operating and cool — is much more than the amount necessary to keep Greenpeace’s 30-person San Francisco office running, he said, referring to the impact of Facebook’s power use. Kessler said Greenpeace must operate under the conditions of the real world, which includes using some power that comes from nonrenewable energy.
Even Greenpeace admits that the 2 situations (Data Center needs 6 hydrogen bombs blown off per minute to light the place vs Greenpeace office powered entirely a liberal sense of moral superiority) are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT, and a comparison is ridiculous.
But NO, the Bulletin still runs a TIT-FOR-TAT piece, that makes it sound like the San Fran Super-Freaky-Queerbait-Center-Of-The-Universe Greenpeace office is practically a clone of the Facebook Life-Sucking, Let Us Trade motherfahking beads & trinkets for 200 years of tax givebacks DataSkrotum.
Bully morons.
Having been a part of similar scenes in my past, I can picture how The Bulletin's Facebook-Greenpeace story came about:
Bright Young Reporter to Editor: "Hey Chief, Greenpeace is flicking Facebook shit over using coal power, but I wonder where the Greenpeace office gets its power? I bet it's on the grid with everybody else. How about I check into it?'
Editor: "Yeah, we can really rub their self-righteous enviro-wackoi faces in it. Go get 'em, kid!"
It is kind of funny. Since it doesn't actually impact Bend.
Eyes elsewhere.
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