Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

It’s about time!

January 30, 2020 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 10 Comments

First, I must disclose my personal biases.

I have been a (very) frequent flier for nearly 40 years. Long before the airlines had mileage programs (over the years, these loyalty programs have lost their luster, only benefiting the data collection for the airlines), I was a 100,000 mile flier on TWA and Continental. Back when they defined quality airline travel. To this day, I am an elite travel member of the two airlines we will be discussing today. But, that will not influence the facts or my discussion of same.

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Economy, Technology

All the News That’s Fit to Print?

May 21, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

Ever since I was a little kid, newspapers were part of my life.

I remember my father would bring home the New York Times and the New York Post from work, and we’d get Newsday delivered.

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Business Management

He cannot tell a lie.

January 17, 2017 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 13 Comments

There’s a big problem in America. One that scares the crap out of me.

For years, we Americans pointed to the FSU (former Soviet Union), Turkey, Venezuela, China as states that made up news to keep their citizens in line. We never emulated them- we made fun of them. We derided the fact that their propaganda that purported to be news could be believed.

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Brain, Just Because, Technology

Looking for love in all the wrong places?

February 23, 2015 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 7 Comments

I don’t normally read the Wall Street Journal and fall off my chair laughing. But, I had the occasion recently to do just that.

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Economy, Just Because

Sailing, sailing…

August 5, 2014 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

So I was catching up on my reading (it has been the week from hell, sorry) and noticed a piece in the Wall Street Journal, written by Jon Kamp– but that is not what really attracted my attention.

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How NOT to run customer service

June 7, 2013 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

I decided that if learning form failure is a good idea, then we all can learn “oodles” from the stupidity and ineptitude of the Wall Street Journal. I share the ‘experience’ here.

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Business Management, Economy

All the news that’s fit to print?

January 31, 2013 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 10 Comments

Things have been changing. The Ann Arbor News is no longer a daily- but exists on the web. Newsweek has basically disappeared (but would probably still be on the newsstands- at least today- had Sid Harman not met his demise.) The Washington Post makes a profit- because it owns for-profit schools. Everywhere we turn, we hear that our news delivery is changing.

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Business Management, Economy

Come on, Jack, you know corporations are NOT people!

July 23, 2012 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 22 Comments

Dear Jack:

I admire you- a lot After all, you are not only a fellow chemical engineer, but you managed to drive General Electric to unparalleled heights. But, that does not mean that I can accept everything you say without complaint.

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