Admittedly it is difficult for someone like Jiten Roy to understand the language of American politics, and terms like 'war chest' (fund available for a politician for contesting an election) and 'super PAC' (money collected by donation towards a candidate in an election) would be incomprehensible.
Still, I would not have thought that a reference to an article from the pages of a well-known progressive internet outlet as AlterNet.org would be so unfamiliar to a mukto-mona member residing in the United States. This was an article by Justin Elliott from yet another prestigious news/opinion cyber mag, salon.com.
Even a semi-literate could differentiate an "add" from an informative article on a very important topic, i.e., our democracy is at stake, and elections mean very little since they are being bought by big money alone.
A little schoolgirl knows that the American shorthand for advertisement is 'ad' -- without the additional 'd' -- and what an ad looks or feels like.
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: jnrsr53@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:24:43 -0700
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] FW: Meet the Wealthy Men Trying to Buy Our Upcoming Election
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Still, I would not have thought that a reference to an article from the pages of a well-known progressive internet outlet as AlterNet.org would be so unfamiliar to a mukto-mona member residing in the United States. This was an article by Justin Elliott from yet another prestigious news/opinion cyber mag, salon.com.
Even a semi-literate could differentiate an "add" from an informative article on a very important topic, i.e., our democracy is at stake, and elections mean very little since they are being bought by big money alone.
A little schoolgirl knows that the American shorthand for advertisement is 'ad' -- without the additional 'd' -- and what an ad looks or feels like.
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: jnrsr53@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:24:43 -0700
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] FW: Meet the Wealthy Men Trying to Buy Our Upcoming Election
| This is an add. Please do not forward this type of add. --- On Fri, 9/30/11, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
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Mukto Mona plans for a Grand Darwin Day Celebration:
Call For Articles:
http://mukto-mona.com/wordpress/?p=68
http://mukto-mona.com/banga_blog/?p=585
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VISIT MUKTO-MONA WEB-SITE : http://www.mukto-mona.com/
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
-Beatrice Hall [pseudonym: S.G. Tallentyre], 190
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