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Winners Write the History
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article71659992.html
"UC Davis contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper-spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.
The payments were made as the university was trying to boost its image online and were among several contracts issued following the pepper-spray incident.
Some payments were made in hopes of improving the results computer users obtained when searching for information about the university or Katehi, results that one consultant labeled “venomous rhetoric about UC Davis and the chancellor.”
Others sought to improve the school’s use of social media and to devise a new plan for the UC Davis strategic communications office, which has seen its budget rise substantially since Katehi took the chancellor’s post in 2009. Figures released by UC Davis show the strategic communications budget increased from $2.93 million in 2009 to $5.47 million in 2015.
“We have worked to ensure that the reputation of the university, which the chancellor leads, is fairly portrayed,” said UC Davis spokeswoman Dana Topousis. “We wanted to promote and advance the important teaching, research and public service done by our students, faculty and staff, which is the core mission of our university.”
Money to pay the consultants came from the communications department budget, Topousis said ....."
"UC Davis contracted with consultants for at least $175,000 to scrub the Internet of negative online postings following the November 2011 pepper-spraying of students and to improve the reputations of both the university and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, newly released documents show.
The payments were made as the university was trying to boost its image online and were among several contracts issued following the pepper-spray incident.
Some payments were made in hopes of improving the results computer users obtained when searching for information about the university or Katehi, results that one consultant labeled “venomous rhetoric about UC Davis and the chancellor.”
Others sought to improve the school’s use of social media and to devise a new plan for the UC Davis strategic communications office, which has seen its budget rise substantially since Katehi took the chancellor’s post in 2009. Figures released by UC Davis show the strategic communications budget increased from $2.93 million in 2009 to $5.47 million in 2015.
“We have worked to ensure that the reputation of the university, which the chancellor leads, is fairly portrayed,” said UC Davis spokeswoman Dana Topousis. “We wanted to promote and advance the important teaching, research and public service done by our students, faculty and staff, which is the core mission of our university.”
Money to pay the consultants came from the communications department budget, Topousis said ....."
"News has become nothing more than entertainment. "
Yes. Will Farrell in the Anchorman.
Or then again, wasn't it the Romans who gave the crowd bread and circuses ( entertainment) as a form of distraction from real events ?
Yes. Will Farrell in the Anchorman.
Or then again, wasn't it the Romans who gave the crowd bread and circuses ( entertainment) as a form of distraction from real events ?
Not that I needed something new to add to my p1ssed off list. I guess I will have to make room for this. I’ve been telling my wife, things are getting harder to find (especially History) on line and trying to get local
Televised news is a joke. We could have 5 murders and they will cover a pothole that needs to be fixed. News has become nothing more than entertainment.
So, it looks like now, Big Brother can and will Re Write History .The silver lining to the cloud is, I will probably wake up tomorrow and forget I ever read it.
Not that I needed something new to add to my p1ssed off list. I guess I will have to make room for this. I’ve been telling my wife, things are getting harder to find (especially History) on line and trying to get local
Televised news is a joke. We could have 5 murders and they will cover a pothole that needs to be fixed. News has become nothing more than entertainment.
So, it looks like now, Big Brother can and will Re Write History .The silver lining to the cloud is, I will probably wake up tomorrow and forget I ever read it.
Televised news is a joke. We could have 5 murders and they will cover a pothole that needs to be fixed. News has become nothing more than entertainment.
So, it looks like now, Big Brother can and will Re Write History .The silver lining to the cloud is, I will probably wake up tomorrow and forget I ever read it.
Not that I needed something new to add to my p1ssed off list. I guess I will have to make room for this. I’ve been telling my wife, things are getting harder to find (especially History) on line and trying to get local
Televised news is a joke. We could have 5 murders and they will cover a pothole that needs to be fixed. News has become nothing more than entertainment.
So, it looks like now, Big Brother can and will Re Write History .The silver lining to the cloud is, I will probably wake up tomorrow and forget I ever read it.
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I hate this format
Me too !!!!!!
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