If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many votes is it worth?
That's what hit me when I saw the big space-filling photo on Page One of the Beacon Journal with the name of a candidate for office standing out on the photo of a car? Why run a photo at all — or at least run a generic one.
The story did mention other auto dealers but my thoughts immediately went to something I read about Ganley auto group where the old man is running for Congress. That group is a big advertiser in both the BJ and the Plain Dealer.
My long-time friend and colleague, Abe Zaidan, had some thoughts about it on his website, Grumpy Abe.
I’m sure the image of that emblem on the front of the car pictured will stay with a lot of people and when it comes to a choice they’ll probably remember the name “Ganley” and vote for it because it’s so familiar.
I know we old-times are always looking back on the old days, and you’re right.
That would not have happened under some of the past editors and sub-editors. They recognized what it would like.
As I said, a picture is worth a thousand words . . .
To see the original BJ Alums article, click on the headline.
Evidently, Park Ford wants to suck on the government tit.
ReplyDeleteIt was recently reported that Ohio will receive a $190,000,000 grant from the Federal government to tear down condemned homes and crack houses in poor communities across the state which desperately need a hand up to help them recover from years of red ink, neglect and deindustrialization. This Federal grant will help those poor Ohio communities by reducing the health and safety risks associated with condemned homes, improving the appearance of those communities riddled with blight and making long abandoned properties more appealing to potential buyers. In other words, that money will help to clean up our state.
In response to this report, Park Ford's commercially sponsored talk radio goon publicly called for that money to be given instead to privately owned companies like Park Ford so they can expand their privately owned business.
Are you kidding me? That's what profits are for. That's what RIDICULOUS auto service charges are for. The owners of Park Ford are rich already. If they want to expand their business in order to get even richer, they should do so by spending their OWN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PROFITS. NOT BY SUCKING ON THE GOVERNMENT TIT.
Park Ford's commercially sponsored talk radio goon is calling for the worst kind of socialism. The sold-out kind which helps the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Meanwhile, the poor communities of Ohio riddled with blight and crime will get NOTHING. That is EXACTLY what Park Ford's HIRED TALK RADIO GOON is calling for.
The same talk radio goon has also been calling for the Federal government to give handouts to the oil industry because gas prices and big oil profits are FINALLY down. This after several years in a row of record high profits and charges. What a sold-out pig.
The hell with Park Ford, the hell with ridiculous auto service charges, the hell with big oil greed, the hell with corporate welfare, the hell with government handouts for the rich and THE HELL WITH THEIR SOLD-OUT TALK RADIO GOONS.
By the way, did I mention that the richest 1% of Americans already own 42% of America's total wealth? Yes, really.
The rich don't need anymore government handouts.