What the headline said. A couple weeks ago I sat down with PBS NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solmon to discuss Seattle’s fight for a $15 minimum wage. The segment is scheduled to run tonight.
How much of my interview they’ll use, I’m guessing not much. Past experience at these things suggests that 20 minutes of interview time boils down to less than 20 seconds of airtime. Either way, it was a pleasure meeting Solmon. He proved much more pleasant and thoughtful than the last network TV personality to interview me.
UPDATE: The East Coast tells me the segment airs around 6:40 pm. Sounds like I might have only about 20 seconds combined, but unlike with O’Reilly, at least I get the last word.
The Bill-O segment was almost 6 minutes long – and Goldy didn’t get that much in past O’Reilly’s name-calling and non-sequiturs
20 seconds would pretty pathetic..
We’ll see what doesn’t fall to the cutting room floor! Congrats. This issue needs as much national media exposure as it can possibly get.
Slumber Jay,
” and Goldy didn’t get that much in past O’Reilly’s name-calling and non-sequiturs”
Goldy got in the most important part: Wishing Bill-O-the-Clown a very merry War on Christmas.
As long as I get my raise from $15.38 to around $25 per hour, I’m good to go!
@3 Since you’re doing minimum wage work now, please explain why you’re worth $50,000 a year.
I’m a capitalist who does no work, produces nothing, and contributes zip to our nation’s GDP, yet I made $334.47 in the stock market today. In other words, I got paid $41.81 an hour for nothing. As long as the people who run our country insist on making us all live under an economic system like this, I’ll take their money. I resisted as long as I could — I was a worker drone myself for over 40 years — but I finally broke under torture and became a capitalist like them. Given what the system is, why anyone would actually work for $25 an hour is beyond my understanding.