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« Today's Reading List | Main | The Future of Mass Media » October 25, 2005Today's Reading ListThe War: Powerline has an update from Major E., their correspondent in Baghdad. ... Lance Frizzell is blogging the return of the 278th from Iraq. I'll be happy when Lance In Iraq becomes Lance at home. Politics: A Tennessean editorial says "Lobbyists don't belong on boards, commissions." The presence of lobbyists on state boards and commissions creates unnecessary suspicion that can easily be avoided by banning lobbyists from state boards. Such a ban wouldn't imply that lobbyists are evil, just that they already have a voice in government. State government can get all the expertise it needs without tapping registered lobbyists for state boards. A ban wouldn't mean a loss of expertise, but it could mean a gain in public trust in government.The editorial notes that two members of the Tax Structure Study Commission were lobbyists for the Securities Industry Association and the Tennessee Business Roundtable - and the Commission recommended that the state repeal a tax derived mainly from investments and that corporate business taxes be reduced. Bob Krumm finds an interesting oddity in the state's ethics laws regarding lobbyists taking legislators to dinner, and comments, "If ever I'm a legislator, I'm going to dinner Dutch or not at all." Tennessee would be well-served if Krumm was a legislator. The Media: Terry Heaton looks at blog-bashing by AdAge and deems it "absurd." He also previews what he was going to tell 300+ "communications" students at Middle Tennessee State University the next day. I wonder how that went - and how the faculty received it. Posted in Today's Reading List
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