GOV. PALIN: After the BP Spill, Is Drill Baby Drill A Real Policy?

i hate to say i told you so, and maybe i didn't say it to you personally, but I TOLD YOU SO! the old "risk/benefit ratio" has crashed and burned. if i were you, i'd buy stock in solar energy, wind farms and electric vehicles. oil is king no longer, and as Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote on May 26, 2010 about the disastrous oil and environmental policies of the Bush years: "Consorting with the industry intensified once two oilmen took over the White House. Dick Cheney, Duke of Halliburton — responsible for the cementing of the calamitous well, now under investigation — had his aides conspire with BP America and other oil companies to draw up an energy policy." now sarah palin, who has the intellect of a baby seal, is praying for the people whose jobs, ways of life and homes are about to be destroyed. too little, too late. goodbye, sarah palin. hello, environmental disaster.

Pamela Shoemaker

Pamela Shoemaker

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I hold an endowed research chair at Syracuse University and am the John Ben Snow Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse NY, USA, 1-315-443-9255. I teach research methods & theory. I study influences on media content, gatekeeping, cross-cultural news and news values, definitions of newsworthiness, news on multiple platforms.

My recent books include:
-- Gatekeeping Theory (with Tim Vos)
-- News Around the World (with Akiba Cohen)
-- How to Build Social Science Theory (with Jim Tankard and Nick Lasorsa)
-- Mediating the Message (with Steve Reese); 3rd edition under way

please feel free to comment here and to email me at snowshoe@syr.edu. thanks, pam

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