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Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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“Land: see Snatch.”

By gtdonovan | Published: 09.14.2009
Attorney General Hedley Lamarr, a character from Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, discovers a way to  re-route railroad tracks through the town of Rock Ridge: Hedley Lamarr: Wait a minute… there might be legal precedent. Of course! Land-snatching! [grabs a law book] Hedley Lamarr: Land, land… “Land: see Snatch.” [flips back several pages] Hedley Lamarr: [...]
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Grinch Alert: Rupert Murdoch

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.28.2009
According to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp: We intend to charge for our news websites. The Wall Street Journal‘s WSJ.com is the world’s most successful paid news site and we will be using our profitable experience there and the resulting unique skills throughout News Corp to increase our revenues from all our content. And [...]
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Grinch Alert: Robert Iger

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.27.2009
According to PaidContent.org, Robert Iger (CEO of Walt Disney Co.) recently stated: Our product is extremely valuable … and if we are offering it on another platform or in another location for the consumer to access it, I believe that’s more value we are delivering [to a distributor or consumer] and we should get paid appropriately. If [...]
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