Walker names new leader for Department of Workforce Development

[Jimbo S]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/walker-names-new-leader-for-workforce-development-132476143.html

Gov. Scott Walker named Reggie Newson as his workforce development secretary on Monday - making his third appointment to the post in 10 months.

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Hmmm, wonder what's up with that?

[mojowork_n]

1. On "Countdown" tonight Scott Ross, from

One Wisconsin Now, said unemployment in WI has increased 5%... (Not sure what period of time.) I think that just means
that the rate has increased a little bit, from 7 point whatever to 7 point something else. But when you read about
it on Page 2 of the Journal, it will probably say something like "many of those 'lost jobs' had been vacant for some
time' (until Walker officially killed them), so they don't count, or 'who really knows or can count how many jobs
might have been lost due to the loss of high speed rail, or wind energy projects;' those won't count either.

Doing P.R. for the Wanker is probably one of the steadiest, and best paying jobs, one can have in this state.

Along that line ------> enter (stage right), Reggie Newson.

He had been appointed Deputy Director of the DWD 4 months ago, in July:



OWN press release:

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/one-wisconsin-now-statements-on-latest-walker-failure-2300-jobs-gone.html

[Viking12]

2. WI unemployment has increase from 7.4% to 7.9% since Walker took office

Maybe the figure referenced was 0.5% not 5%? Or, maybe, .05/7.4 is roughly a 5% increase (6.7% to be precise)...

[mojowork_n]

3. I think that's what I remembered, the 5% (6.7 %) rate of increase.

But when you're flipping channels between Monday Night Football, and the cool
graphics in this space documentary on the Science Channel, still thinking
about what you'd heard during the interview an hour earlier with Michael Moore
on "Democracy Now," while wondering what else there is to do before calling it a
night -- oh, yeah: log in to D.U. and see what's new -- it's hard to be absolutely
precise with all of the numbers.

But whatever the actual figure (to however far the decimal place needs to be
carried), the point is.......

the significance of the continued slow growth of new jobs in Wisconsin is
going to be obscured by the amount of P.R. that routinely overwhelms actual
news reported by real, working journalists. P.R. is ready-made, paid-for,
"fake news" that benefits the P.R. firms' clients.

The ratio is now above 3 to 1, with mercenary, hired-gun P.R. pro's out numbering
actual 'independent,' investigative news reporters. Since some of the latter are
reporting on weather, local stories of interest, sports and 'entertainment/TV/
movies/local fine dining and where-to-go-this-weekend type information, the
real ratio's much higher.

It's no contest whose message is going to be heard the loudest.

http://www.propublica.org/article/pr-industry-fills-vacuum-left-by-shrinking-newsrooms/single

You saw it when the Tea Party was being born/hatched. There were all the
colorfully painted buses (with big flags and eagles), huge jumbotron outdoor
TV's, and wave after wave of relentlessly on-message news coverage of exactly
what it was the organizers of those events wanted people to know.

("The rich aren't rich enough. Americans for Prosperity!" ...With the
coded-for-the-deaf-dumb-and-blind unmistakeable messages that 'The President's
a n-----,' or whatever that word was that the Gabby Hayes character used for
Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little), at the beginning of Blazing Saddles.")

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

Put that up against what we've been seeing since the OWS movement began,
when instead of porta-johns and plentifully available, catered refreshment
carts, and all the rousing, sympathetic news coverage there are.....


...what?

What's been goin' on?

We watch the news, flipping from channel to channel to try and get a clue,
but what are we seeing there?