Blogging to Fame on CNN
3 March 2009 at 5:06 pm Michael Sykuta 1 comment
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Nicolai’s recent post about improving your impact factor led to some friendly banter about the efficacy of being cited on O&M as a means to increase one’s exposure. Turns out there may be some truth in that nifty little nugget. I was contacted last week by a senior producer at CNN concerning my skeptical views on the U.S. stimulus package. I can only imagine some of my posts on O&M and my appearance on Brad Delong’s list of ethics-free-Republican-hacks had something to do with my reputation as an stimulus stickler.
The CNN crew came to town yesterday as part of their reporting on how (and how well) stimulus funds are being spent and interviewed me regarding the wisdom (or lack thereof) in the stimulus effort and the veracity of claims about job creation. I’m told the segment will air twice tonight on CNN, once on Campbell Brown’s “No Bias. No Bull” (8:00pm Eastern) and again on Anderson Cooper 360 (10:00pm Eastern). I tried to figure out a way to reference O&M directly. I hope the administrators will forgive my inability to work it into the conversation.
Entry filed under: Former Guest Bloggers, Public Policy / Political Economy.
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sykutam | 4 March 2009 at 3:28 pm
Just as a follow up, I have posted the video of the CNN report on my faculty website.
Though my appearance is brief, some of the dialogue at the end of the segment between the reporter and Anderson Cooper does capture some of the other comments I had made…specifically about the propensity for waste in such projects. Left unmentioned is how the jobs created by these projects 1) mostly existed already — i.e., not new jobs — and 2) to the extent new jobs are created, they are at the expense of jobs lost (or not created) in other parts of the economy due to the taxes necessary to pay for these projects.