De NRC podcast spreekt naar aanleiding van de beurscrisis met Maarten Schinkel. Schinkel is de economisch expert van NRC Handelsblad en ook bekend van de succesvolle VPRO documentaire 'De dag dat de dollar valt'. Op dit blog heb ik vaak geklaagd dat NRC FM een matige podcast is, maar het moet gezegd: het gaat steeds beter.
Belangrijk is natuurlijk Maarten Schinkel die met zijn onmiskenbaar timbre de economische situatie uitlegt. De traditionele omkering vindt plaats: de koersen vallen en dan ga je bedenken wat er mis is met de economie. Het is dus niet zo dat er zorgen zijn en daardoor de beurs instort. Wat de instorting veroorzaakt heeft, is waarschijnlijk de Société Générale, de Franse Bank die door een frauderende handelaar grote verliezen dreigde te lijden en alles deed om de schade te beperken.
Ik moest denken aan wat Bas Heijne zei bij Simek. Hij zei dat in Nederland het debat meestal bedorven wordt doordat men over bijzaken praat. Het gaat vooral over specifieke voorbeelden. Zo ook in het gesprek met Schinkel, allerlei feiten worden voor de dag gehaald en er is wat minder aandacht voor de grote lijn. De lijn wordt als gewoonlijk ook niet echt aangebracht door de gespreksleider Paul Steenhuis en evenmin door vaste aanwezige Daan Diederiks (wat is zijn functie eigenlijk?), waardoor het interessante en behartenswaardige gesprek toch wel wat rommelig blijft.
Meer over NRC FM:
Vrijheid van Meningsuiting,
Amerikaanse verkiezingen,
Over mannen en over Rumi.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Issues of Race - The Economist
Democracy in America the blog in The Economist about the upcoming US Elections, put out an interview with Michael Dawson. The question raised is: in how far do issues of race play a part in the Presidential Elections. In other words, do people vote for Obama because he is black and are there people who will not vote for him, because he is black?
Dawson claims race is, generally still an issue in the US. There are scars, there are glass ceilings and this needs to be discussed in his opinion. However, progressives and liberals have been trying to sort of ignore those issues; making it go away by no longer addressing it. They think there is racial equality, where Dawson thinks there is not.
Obama is perceived as black and consequently his race plays a part, but does this go for a substantial group of voters? Dawson think this is substantial, but for each subgroup the dynamic is different. His explanations make this podcast, though short, for me a very informative opening up of the issues of race in the elections.
More from the Economist:
The primary system,
The Economist in New Hampshire,
A biography for Barack Obama and one for Hillary Clinton,
The Economist podcast.
Dawson claims race is, generally still an issue in the US. There are scars, there are glass ceilings and this needs to be discussed in his opinion. However, progressives and liberals have been trying to sort of ignore those issues; making it go away by no longer addressing it. They think there is racial equality, where Dawson thinks there is not.
Obama is perceived as black and consequently his race plays a part, but does this go for a substantial group of voters? Dawson think this is substantial, but for each subgroup the dynamic is different. His explanations make this podcast, though short, for me a very informative opening up of the issues of race in the elections.
More from the Economist:
The primary system,
The Economist in New Hampshire,
A biography for Barack Obama and one for Hillary Clinton,
The Economist podcast.
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