mediadog

Robert Lenna, executive director of the Maine Municipal Bond Bank, demonstrated a poor sense of public relations to say the least when he told State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin that "I don't eat at Wendy's."

Wow, talk about executive hubris. Lots of real folks eat at Wendy's, or at Mickey D's, or at many other places that are apparently too ordinary for the haughty Robert Lennas of the world.

October 3, 2010
by mediadog

Americans' distrust of the media has reached an all-time high with perception of liberal bias far more prevalent than that of conservative bias.

The Gallup organization, which annually conducts a poll that measures the public's feeling about the media, reports that this is the fourth year in a row in which a large majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the media "to report news fully, accurately and fairly."

A year ago, if we had read in the paper that employers were hiring again, health care legislation was proceeding without a bump, and Afghanistan was a nice place to take your kids, we would have known we were being lied to. We recognized that the problems Barack Obama inherited wouldn’t go away overnight.

During his campaign, Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight years to break couldn’t be fixed in a year, that Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires, and would not be an easy venture for us.