14,000 Voters Prorogue a Rest Day to Protest Parliament Dogf**ckers
A couple hundred thousand disgruntled facebookers signed up to register their disappointment with "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament" when the Prime Minister recessed Parliamentary business until March. Several presiding government Ministers publicly marginalized the Facebook group in media reports relegating the networking efforts as "without substance or merit". I personally expressed skepticism at the assessments when I recognized the Ministers as post-Baby Boomer geriatrics who have no exposure with social networking, OR Generation Y cultures (that would be the grand kids the "old farts" believe still watch TV).
I got a real good laugh at Winnipeg radio talk show host Charles Adler audio clip of his broadcast reporting on the Grassroots Fury resulting from the Facebook protests.
Corus Radio's Charles Adler on the 'media event.' (Corus / CJOB 68)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/blogolitics/audio-grassroots-fury/article1443589/?cid=art-rail-bureaubloghttp://
Adler belittles, much like a handful of geriatric Tory Ministers, the smaller scale municipal turnouts physically attending the demonstrations circa the parliamentary slackers skipping out until March. I snicker at the old farts who overlook the young 'uns and their virtual lifestyles and the impact of social networking.
The effects on politics was evident in the US election when Facebook's impact on the political system became clear in 2008, as Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feed back about the "back to back" Republican and Democratic January 5th debates. Charles Gibson moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users could take part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, and message questions. Over 1,000,000 people installed the facebook application - US politics and there was measurable responses to specific comments made by candidates during the debate. This debate aside had shown many what young students had already known; Facebook was a new way to interact and voice opinions. An article written by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.com illustrates how the "facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support and general involvement in the 2008 election.
I spent several hours on an airplane some years back with Charles Adler. He was one of the best conversationalists I have ever encountered, and he is no "old fart" beyond the short-sightings of our boomer generation. He was very articulate, and, after engaging me in my vocation of trade unionism, we spent some very entertaining moments exploring his vocation of talk radio. He made it very clear that his objectives were far less in the realm of fact and truth, but moreso in the realm of conflict and passion. You see, truth and news don't produce successful talk shows as much as screaming tempers. Now, what can be said for the geriatric Ministers? I'll let the voters decide. So be it.
The advances within the networking communities will, undoubtedly, make the 2008 effects pale in comparison to the application by the time our next federal election presents itself and the Grassroots Fury will swallow the "old farts' " short sightedness. You heard it here first. LOL.
I'll be in touch.
I got a real good laugh at Winnipeg radio talk show host Charles Adler audio clip of his broadcast reporting on the Grassroots Fury resulting from the Facebook protests.
Corus Radio's Charles Adler on the 'media event.' (Corus / CJOB 68)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/blogolitics/audio-grassroots-fury/article1443589/?cid=art-rail-bureaubloghttp://
Adler belittles, much like a handful of geriatric Tory Ministers, the smaller scale municipal turnouts physically attending the demonstrations circa the parliamentary slackers skipping out until March. I snicker at the old farts who overlook the young 'uns and their virtual lifestyles and the impact of social networking.
The effects on politics was evident in the US election when Facebook's impact on the political system became clear in 2008, as Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feed back about the "back to back" Republican and Democratic January 5th debates. Charles Gibson moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users could take part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, and message questions. Over 1,000,000 people installed the facebook application - US politics and there was measurable responses to specific comments made by candidates during the debate. This debate aside had shown many what young students had already known; Facebook was a new way to interact and voice opinions. An article written by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.com illustrates how the "facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support and general involvement in the 2008 election.
I spent several hours on an airplane some years back with Charles Adler. He was one of the best conversationalists I have ever encountered, and he is no "old fart" beyond the short-sightings of our boomer generation. He was very articulate, and, after engaging me in my vocation of trade unionism, we spent some very entertaining moments exploring his vocation of talk radio. He made it very clear that his objectives were far less in the realm of fact and truth, but moreso in the realm of conflict and passion. You see, truth and news don't produce successful talk shows as much as screaming tempers. Now, what can be said for the geriatric Ministers? I'll let the voters decide. So be it.
The advances within the networking communities will, undoubtedly, make the 2008 effects pale in comparison to the application by the time our next federal election presents itself and the Grassroots Fury will swallow the "old farts' " short sightedness. You heard it here first. LOL.
I'll be in touch.
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