5/20/2003
No money for schools, lots of money for Byrd PR
The heavy-handed Byrd PR machine cranks out a little damage-control at state expense. (The Times ran a followup the next day.)
"Because our message is filtered or ignored by the press, the House needs to communicate the whole, unbiased story directly to you," the letter to voters says directing them to MyFloridaHouse.com for the real truth.
The Florida House Web site is now a personal propaganda platform for the speaker rather than a site for House news and bill information. Because it's so slow and isn't good at delivering basic bill information, most people I've spoken to use the Senate site for workaday information. (And this whole Microsoft-inspired thing of naming things my-this and my-that is starting to get on my nerves. It's not my "network neighborhood" and it most certainly isn't my Florida House. There's a false familiarity to this that annoys me. Like waiters who insist on calling you by your first name.)
I enjoy the way the House site will give you this warning screen if you click on the Fla. Senate link. That's right, it asks you if you really, really, really want to go there.
"Because our message is filtered or ignored by the press, the House needs to communicate the whole, unbiased story directly to you," the letter to voters says directing them to MyFloridaHouse.com for the real truth.
The Florida House Web site is now a personal propaganda platform for the speaker rather than a site for House news and bill information. Because it's so slow and isn't good at delivering basic bill information, most people I've spoken to use the Senate site for workaday information. (And this whole Microsoft-inspired thing of naming things my-this and my-that is starting to get on my nerves. It's not my "network neighborhood" and it most certainly isn't my Florida House. There's a false familiarity to this that annoys me. Like waiters who insist on calling you by your first name.)
I enjoy the way the House site will give you this warning screen if you click on the Fla. Senate link. That's right, it asks you if you really, really, really want to go there.
