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My column in last Sunday's Tribune, "Our perverse farm policy," is being picked up by a few other newspapers and Web sites around the country. It's about how U.S. government policy encourages vast, unsustainable overproduction of basic grains that the world cannot afford to buy, wrecking prices, the economies of already poor nations and threatening the global environment too boot.
It's a topic I've written about before.
That column led to an interview I did Tuesday morning on Uprising Radio, on the progressive Pacifica Radio's Los Angeles station, KPFK. You can hear that interview here.
The column was distributed by my old colleagues at The Prairie Writers Circle, at The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. Many other writers have held forth on similar themes, and you can have a look here.
-- George Pyle
It's a topic I've written about before.
That column led to an interview I did Tuesday morning on Uprising Radio, on the progressive Pacifica Radio's Los Angeles station, KPFK. You can hear that interview here.
The column was distributed by my old colleagues at The Prairie Writers Circle, at The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. Many other writers have held forth on similar themes, and you can have a look here.
-- George Pyle
2 Comments:
I re-read your column and found it quite well done. You obviously have a command of the subject. It was very good journalism.
Now, can anyone at the Tribune tell me why the story below was published in this morning's paper? Is this journalism? I consider it a vast waste of newsprint, time and energy. Were your readers really interested? What was the point?
I think it represents the softness we have come to expect from the Dean Singleton property.
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"Although three witnesses saw the woman hit a truck Wednesday in an Orem parking lot, police weren't sure until the woman's young son piped up and pointed out the damage on her van.
"The witnesses directed the truck's owner to the business the woman had just left. He went inside to ask the business owner the identity of the van driver, but found the owner defensive, police said.
"When officers arrived, they learned the business owner was the van driver's husband, and both he and his wife, who had since returned to the store, denied she had hit the truck, police said.
"The woman challenged police to find damage.
"As the officers checked the van, “one of her children, a bright 6- or 7-year-old boy, decided to be helpful by pointing to a spot on the bumper and telling the officer, 'It's right here,' ” according to Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards.
"Edwards said officers eventually would have found the damage on their own - even through the bumper had been wiped clean in an effort to make the scratches less noticeable.
"The woman was cited for leaving the scene of an accident."
You know, I saw that story that executor refers to and I also wondered "what the hell?" Who cares, and what's the point?
A metropolitan newspaper printing this kind of crap. What gives?
God, the reporter was striking for quota or stupid.
Your readers deserve better.
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