As Dolly said in Hello, Dolly: My dear Seymour, money is like manure. It doesn’t do any good unless you spread it around.

Dennis

However, the play, the orchestra and the dance often fill our minds and hearts with perspective to give us pause on the complications of life and insight into the human spirit.

That parable has nothing to do with journalism.

IMHO I think that the civic leaders, elected officials and wannabee politicians look at the robber baron families that have been controlling Wichita for decades and have concluded that you can’ fight city hall and crime & unethical behavior do pay. I clipped a portion of the NY Times article about David Koch’s libertarian political background and his support for political organizations like Americans for Prosperity. When I attended an AFP seminar two years ago on grass roots political advocacy, Alan Cobb told the class that in politics “Perception Is Reality.” I suspect that the NY City elitists already perceive that David Koch is trying to buy legitimacy with his $100,000,000 dollar donation which will only benefit the east coast elitists that attend the theater. Talk is cheap. Given the inevitability that the national media will have to report the systemic fascism in the local Wichita government and the Kansas Supreme Court, I wonder if the Kochs have enough common sense to understand that Americans for Prosperity should be leading the political crusade to demand transparency & accountability in all levels of government to expose the human rights atrocities that have occurred in the Koch’s own back yard. Government and judicial corruption are the most insidious tax on society. If the Kochs are careful, Kansans and their own employees will perceive them as being greedy, heartless robber barons who are only concerned are eliminating the federal & state estate taxes.
Clip from NY Tmes article:
Mr. Koch, a major contributor to the Republican Party and supporter of conservative causes, was the vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian ticket in 1980. In 2003 he helped establish the nonprofit Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which supports free-market policies and promotes government spending limits. It split off from an earlier Koch-backed enterprise, now called FreedomWorks, which promotes similar goals.

Bill McKean kiakahahaha@yahoo.com 316 293-6079

And study up on the parable of the Widow’s Mite.

The reason? From Macintosh, “$100,000,000 just isn’t money to Koch and therefore I’m not going to cover it.” If you are going to mention such gifts on the air then give equal coverage. All you did with your little comment is cause me to change the channel whenever ‘The Macintosh Report’ comes on.