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On Radio and Facts
I listen to NPR’s To The Point with Warren Olney because it’s one of the best sources of balanced information I’ve found. However, I’ve noticed that though the show handles bias better than any other I’ve seen, they have trouble with getting facts straight if people are willing to stand up for factual innaccuracies.
For example, I was listening [...]
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Isn’t It Interesting
My girlfriend brought up an excellent point yesterday when we were talking about the election results.
All of a sudden, it seems to be ok to talk about Obama as the first black president.
I don’t believe people were naive to it earlier, but at the same time there was clearly a stigma surrounding its discussion in [...]
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A Better Political Discourse
I’ve touched in previous posts (and in my Google Reader Notes) on the idea that I believe people should be analyzing the presidential race on the policy issues that will directly affect them during the future administration, rather than analyzing which president is more likable, or feels more like them, or some other character-based metric.
As [...]
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Unhelpful Words: -gate
Today’s edition of unhelpful words comes in the form of a suffix: -gate.
It’s become common practice when covering any political scandal these days to name the event with -gate at the end. But it remains unclear what this suffix does to shine any more light on the story than simply reporting it would.
For example, in [...]
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Patriotism can be a good thing, but I want to talk about an branch of it that’s really been bugging me, a kind I’ll call “campaign” patriotism.
So far in this US election cycle, the attack that’s enraged me the most whether coming from left or right (but it’s mostly been from the right) is to [...]
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Reader Notes Roundup #1
New tradition here, since I often do short notes on articles I find in Reader (recent updates at right), I figured once a week I would highlight some of the key posts of the week in the blog.
Without further ado, some of the best notes of the week:
Rise of the Sea Turtles | Newsweek International [...]
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The New Fourth Estate
Bill Moyers had a column out recently about the decline of the fourth estate. His column goes on to express concerns over media consolidation and support network neutrality. In my opinion, he should have focused more on the big picture evolution of the fourth estate.
I think most people would agree that the operation of a “press” is vital [...]
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Truth and Journalism
So I came across this NPR piece today on “E-Politics.” For the most part, I like it. I do think that the Internet will change the political landscape, and I also think we need a better deployment for broadband across the US (though how to do that is up for debate). However, I came across [...]
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So I ran into a poll on the politics section of Facebook today.
Aside from the obvious lack of an “other” category, I have a more basic problem wiht this poll. Why is ABC (who runs the politics section of Facebook) pushing people into believing that deep down they’re really single issue voters? In my opinion, [...]
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