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COMMENT-- A GREAT NON-ISSUE HITS SD NEWSPAPERS

(((((((( A Disclaimer: I have been informed by staff at SD Public Radio
that I
have been banned from participating in the Noon Forums. Joan Russell
was apparently greatly miffed about a comment I made during a discussion
of the truly dumb and inappropriate attempt by state revenue agencies to
get around the US Constitution in someway to collect sales or use taxes
on internet sales, etc. Terry Harris has refused to respond to me by e-mail
or
Telephone. So, take my bias on this issue into consideration as you
read the following.)))))))))

A great non-issue hits the SD papers. Gubernatorial Primary Candidate
Barnett is accused by Joan Russell of SD Public Radio forum of having
somehow mysteriously misused a state asset for political purposes.

The asset is not a state airplane flown to a private finance meeting,
a state car driven recklessly over a state highway, a state computer, or
even the state WATS lines. Nope, it is dinky digital picture found both on
the Attorney
General's SD page and also on his internet site promoting his candidacy
for SD Governor. The links to those sites follow this rant.

I downloaded the photo that got the Princess of Public Broadcasting Inanity
off on a tangent searching for something less significant than a pea
under a second mattress.. The size of the digital photo on
the internet pages is about 144 x 100 pixels. Even a large high
resolution picture of a politician would not be worth much unless as
the saying goes "he was caught naked in bed with a dead teenage girl or
a live teenage boy". No matter how much I disagree with some of the
policies espoused by Barnett over the years, I have not heard
anything to suggest anything "interesting" about his personal behavior.

So, the Mistress of the Inane and Clueless Comments and Questions
With The Hyper-inflated Self-View has gotten her name and
South Dakota Public Broadcasting into an AP story by Joe Kafka. It
must be one of the most empty political news stories since press fools
started repeating GOP operative's lies about Gore's "lies" or Bob Barr
started blathering about "impeachable offenses" by Bill Clinton. (At least
the tiny digital picture should not set off a $73 Million wild goose chase).

Today (April 4, 2002) on the SD Public Noon Forum, the Princess of Inanity
hosted
Terry Harris, Dir. of SD Public Radio, on a discussion of public radio
per se and changes probable with federally-mandated shifts to digital radio
and
digital TV broadcasting. When concluding that discussion, comments between
Harris and Joan Russell indicated that he had hired her.

That by itself should be reason for the South Dakota Public TV Board to
look seriously at replacing Harris and letting Joan Russell discuss
elsewhere
the color of curtains, tickets, ballet tutus, etc on some commercial
broadcasting program highlighting the Color Preferences of the Semi-Rich
and Mildly Famous Who Can't Decide What Color Or What Tree They Might Be.

She was one of the reasons I seldom ever watched any news
broadcasts from KSFY TV for many years (It still usually sucks air compared
with KELO). Nothing about her performance
on the SD Public Radio Forum suggests that she has learned much of
anything in her "20 years of broadcast experience"....with the possible
exception of some kind of self-preservation and self-aggrandizement.
SD Public Broadcasting can do better...actually much better. They are
now destroying one of the best radio discussion forums in South Dakota.

There are real issues in South Dakota. We really don't need tangents
on internet photos or what a candidate's wife or step daughter think about
a candidate's campaign, etc. etc.

--- (c) Douglas WIken 2002.----

Opening page of South Dakota Attorney General
with logo that includes photo of Mark B and 2 children

Page with a formal office photo and biography
.
And here is the Barnett for Governor campaign page
that includes the same photo of Mark B and 2 Children.


LAT1=http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/index.htm

LAT2=http://www.state.sd.us/attorney/home/biography.htm

LAT3=http://www.barnett2002.com/
posted by Douglas at 6:08 PM