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I think municipalities should be free to make the best deal they can with large employers like this. Chips fall where they may. They are all elected officials so therefore directly accountable. Seems like the system is working just fine here. Doesn't seem like this is anyone else's business.
Curious how much headwind this will generate. Other critics and award groups already boycotting Disney screenings in solidarity: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/journalists-boycott-di... https://www.thewrap.com/critics-denounce-disney-blackout-la-...
http://flavorwire.com/611229/an-editorial-note-re-disney-and...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/11/06/w...
https://www.avclub.com/the-a-v-club-will-no-longer-attend-di...
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Let's just start selling the role outright. It would be more efficient, most likely lead to the same result, and avoiding the grating, bullshit horserace coverage for a year would make everyone's live better.
This is a funny joke, but empirically not true as of this last election. Hillary massively out spent Trump.
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Trump got several billion dollars in free coverage. No one would care about Trump if he was not Trump.
You are correct. He didn't spend a single dollar on television (or radio) advertising ( http://fortune.com/2016/08/09/donald-trump-tv-ads-clinton/ ). He relied on tweets, controversial statements, and third parties for all of his advertising. This was mentioned several times by at least NPR near the end of the 2016 campaign cycle, as I recall.
Before that August. He started spending after that.
These stories of malfeasance by elected officials, where the representatives act so clearly against their office and the public good, present a conundrum. The campaign contributions even at a national level simply aren’t enough money to incentivize the given level of corruption. I really want to know: what are the incentives? Are there secret payments? I remember Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted for receiving…
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This is a funny joke, but empirically not true as of this last election. Hillary massively out spent Trump.
Trump got several billion dollars in free coverage. No one would care about Trump if he was not Trump.
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>Most money offered gets to be president. Didn't seem to work very well for Hillary... (I know this sounds like a cheap shot, but it completely breaks down your argument)
$2B in free media attention helped a bit, I'd imagine. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-t...
She could have polluted Twitter and the news with sound bites that forced analysis and coverage of her, which is what Trump did.
He played the media and Twitter and got free advertising. She had as much accessibility but didn't use it to her advantage and thus ended up losing.
I think municipalities should be free to make the best deal they can with large employers like this. Chips fall where they may. They are all elected officials so therefore directly accountable. Seems like the system is working just fine here. Doesn't seem like this is anyone else's business.
Are you paid for this opinion? I have to imagine yes.
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>Most money offered gets to be president. Didn't seem to work very well for Hillary... (I know this sounds like a cheap shot, but it completely breaks down your argument)
$2B in free media attention helped a bit, I'd imagine. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-t...
> Disney CEO Bob Iger is said to have ordered the retaliatory measure against the LA Times, and is also thought to be considering a 2020 presidential bid, which augurs poorly for his approach to the free press. Wow, I hadn't heard this was a possibility until now. I sure am looking forward to seeing which of the many {m/b}illionaires ends up winning the presidency in 2020! How about we just cut out the middlemen and…
> Most money offered gets to be president. But even that doesn't work. In 2016 for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton's campaign had $790M USD versus Donald Trump's $408M USD. She had double the money 'to buy the presidency' and she still lost. https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16