it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Quote of the Day | 0708

With the Iraq war over and U.S. combat operations scheduled to finish in Afghanistan by the end of next year, however, the Pentagon has begun shifting psy-ops missions to other parts of the world to influence popular opinion. Many of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0709

you are afraid of the interviewer, and that is not an inspiration. You close your shell; you put yourself on your guard; you try to be colorless; you try to be crafty, and talk all around a matter without ...

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Quote of the Day | 0712

One of the things that newspapers obscured was that they weren’t a medium, they were a collection of media bodged together. Cory Doctorow lunches with the FT

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Quote of the Day | 0712

Facts don’t work’, and that’s it. The remain campaign featured fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. It just doesn’t work. You have got to connect with people emotionally. It’s the Trump success. 'How technology disrupted the truth'

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Quote of the Day | 0716

Journalism is not given much respect. Journalists themselves, particularly in my generation, didn’t take their jobs very seriously. I take it very seriously. This is a craft. This is an art form. I’m writing stories, just like fiction writers, only ...

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Quote of the Day | 0721

then I began seeing one self-described journalist after the next treat the accusation from these anonymous officials as tantamount to Proven Truth. They just started asserting that Snowden’s revelations helped ISIS without a molecule of doubt, skepticism or critical thought. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0723

If price is not the issue, then what we are really concerned about is that newspaper readers get access to informative news about the key issues of the day – the kind of thing upon which our democracy depends. But ...

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Quote of the Day | 0727

The one story you read may paint a wildly inaccurate picture, while with the depth of a book—even a biased one—at least gives you some sense of scope. David Mekelburg, 'The News Gets Me High'

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Quote of the Day | 0727

I was a journalist at the Financial Times. Whenever you work at a newspaper, particularly a newspaper with high standards, you're struck by the gap between the story that appears in the paper the next day and what the journalist ...

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Quote of the Day | 0730

[...] it’s become apparent that selling ad space is an unsustainable revenue model for media as a whole. It is from the chaos of this moment that the relationship between content and capital will be defined for generations to come. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0730

We depend on the Web to serve as a self-cleaning oven, revealing bad reporting and mistakes of fact and then fixing those pixels to reflect the current truth. But the big industrial-strength pat-down is barely in sight when it comes ...

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Quote of the Day | 0730

At another point, Mr. Trump expressed pride in popularizing the phrase “fake news,” and said other countries had begun banning it. Mr. Sulzberger responded that those countries were dictatorships and that they were not banning “fake news” but rather independent ...

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Quote of the Day | 0802

He has turned the public against the press. By the generally inferior product produced, with a few exceptions, by the majority of the news outlets he controls and the tawdry methods sponsored by many of them, he has eroded the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0804

For decades, I religiously read the op-ed pages of the New York Times but recently I've stopped because every op-ed is so closely tied to a newspeg that the thinking never gets very far from current events. So I've recently ...

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Quote of the Day | 0807

on any given day, I’d say 75 percent of what you read in the tech press is somewhat accurate, 20 percent is complete bullshit, and 5 percent is actually true. 'The 75—20—5 Rule Don’t believe everything you read. Or anything, really.'

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Quote of the Day | 0812

The Internet comment thread horizon may seem messy to some. But after more than a century of carefully curated letters to the editor, it may be time for the wisdom of the average reader to emerge on the battlefield. Elizabeth Harball, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0815

If you’re keeping score, in the past month Trump has bitch-slapped the entire Republican Party, redefined our expectations of politics, focused the national discussion on immigration, proposed the only new idea for handling ISIS, and taken functional control of FOX ...

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Quote of the Day | 0815

Much more important--and something that should become a standard practice--is to collaborate on the fundamental journalism itself. One vital element of this should be providing the context that is so often missing. Today’s short-attention-span breaking news coverage amounts to mini-scoops ...

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Quote of the Day | 0817

I read for the pleasure of the sentence structure, or the use of language, or the control of metaphor, or for a sense of humor. Or the civilizing voice that is not particularly surprised or shocked by the world's wickedness. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0819

Shirky: Staggering. Someone born in 1960 has watched something like 50,000 hours of television already. Fifty thousand hours—more than five and a half solid years. Pink: You’ve just described our boyhoods. Shirky: Yes, sitting in front of the television. Pink: Passively watching Gilligan’s ...

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Quote of the Day | 0820

The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood the absolute threat to journalism ...

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Quote of the Day | 0823

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. Think that's too strong a statement? If so, you're not paying attention. Barry Eisler, 'David Miranda and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0824

I was critical of most western ‘mainstream’ media because they see quite incapable of asking basic questions such as: “why are we putting Bradley Manning on trial and not the helicopter-gunner who shot up over a dozen civilians including children?” ...

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Quote of the Day | 0828

24 The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens. Nearly all the whole of everyday ...

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Quote of the Day | 0830

"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For [Andrea] Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold ...

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Quote of the Day | 0830

I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their ...

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Quote of the Day | 0831

the focus of modern fact checks is rarely what we 20th-century fact-checkers would have underlined as checkable facts. Instead, Web fact-checkers generally try to show how articles presented in earnest are actually self-parody. These acts of reclassifying journalism as ...

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Quote of the Day | 0902

* There’s a difference between doing journalism and doing politics. But this does not release journalists from the requirement to show good political judgment. Maybe the problem with participating in welcome culture was not the sentiment, refugees welcome, but the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0908

At the heart of the death of journalism myth (and that of the role of social media) is the presumption of a causal relationship between access to information and democratic change. The idea that mere access to raw information de ...

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Quote of the Day | 0909

[...] playbooks for decoding the 2008 presidential campaign. We may expect the following. Language will be carefully crafted. Advertisements will focus on personal narratives. The campaign will employ “attack” advertisements that emotionally sway voters [...]. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0912

ever since the web went mainstream in 1993 there has been a constant stream of what computer scientist John Seely Brown calls "endism" – assertions that some new technology presages the termination of some revered practice, not to mention the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0913

There is a media ecosystem that is supported and thrives on attention, period. And that is what’s making us dumber and not smarter, and Donald Trump is a symptom of that. Twitter founder: Trump presidency is product of short attention spans

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Quote of the Day | 0916

Political journalism should help us get our bearings in a world of confusing claims and counter-claims. But instead we have savviness, the dialect of insiders bringing us into their games. Nothing is more characteristic of the savvy style than statements ...

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Quote of the Day | 0917

What is the human impulse that leads us to invent the Loch Ness monster, UFOs, bigfoot and their like? I don’t know that there’s much invention done by the individual member of the public. It’s largely the effort, the fault and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0918

The commentators most caught up in the romanticized notion of newspaper cite the potential loss of the newspapers’ “watchdog” function. Let’s be honest. Most newspapers in the U.S. aren’t watchdogs, and most of the rest don’t spend an inordinate amount ...

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Quote of the Day | 0920

Still, the biggest thing that’s missing in the journalistic establishment is people who are good at finding all that great material, and collating it, curating it, adding value to it, linking to it, presenting it to their readers. It’s a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0921

Here are the Huffington Post’s “principles”: Take an original story available on the internet, preferably outside a paywall. Match the subject of the story against a traffic analysis of what readers like on your superblog. Process the story according a compression ratio of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0922

If the fertility of our culture is what we're concerned about, then McLuhanesque musing on the intrinsic nature of reading (as if it had any such thing) is beside the point. Reading per se is not the issue. The point ...

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Quote of the Day | 0927

If not for media bias, I’m certain that my news diet would taste so strongly of sawdust and talc that I would abandon news consumption completely. Jack Shafer, 'Media bias? Give me more, please!'

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Quote of the Day | 0928

Yes, there are some excellent staff journalists working to communicate science seriously and clearly in British newspapers such as The Times or The Guardian. Yet one of our biggest-selling British daily papers is the Daily Mail -- whose science coverage ...

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Quote of the Day | 0928

If you want to influence a mass audience, for instance, you can try to do what the Pentagon does and subtly bake slanted information into entertainment products such as movies and television shows. If, on the other hand, you ...

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Quote of the Day | 0930

the idea that content is king has great intuitive appeal. I consume media content based on what I enjoy or find useful—surely the best company is the one with the best content! Reinforcing this simple observation is the intense emotional ...

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Quote of the Day | 1005

It takes a certain intellectual gift to be able to recommend an anti-Semitic tract at the same time you are using a phony allegation to accuse others of being anti-Israel. Beck can do this because he is not constrained ...

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Quote of the Day | 1006

Chad W. Post: Some of “commands” are pretty straightforward and personal—thinking of “Do Not Always ‘Be On’” and the anxiety most everyone feels trying to “keep up” — whereas others are a bit more abstract and rooted in huge socio-historical ...

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Quote of the Day | 1006

Elections are run by the public relations industry. Its primary task is commercial advertising, which is designed to undermine markets by creating uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices - the exact opposite of how markets are supposed to work, ...

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Quote of the Day | 1012

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but ...

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Quote of the Day | 1016

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde, [born this day in 1854]

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Quote of the Day | 1017

At bottom, we are pattern recognizers who seek escape from ambiguity and indecision. If a major brain function is to maintain mental homeostasis, it is understandable how stances of certainty can counteract anxiety and apprehension. Even though I know ...

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Quote of the Day | 1018

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise ...

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Quote of the Day | 1018

This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, U.S. Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless -- though unverifiable -- claims. The U.S. media ...

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Quote of the Day | 1018

“None of us has the right perspective, given how quickly these events unfolded, and we won’t know how to think about them for 30 years,” says Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times journalist and author of Too Big To ...

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Quote of the Day | 1021

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A.J. Liebling [binnenkort op boeklog]  

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Quote of the Day | 1025

Mr. Assange is guilty of one of the worst offenses in American culture: challenging deeply-held beliefs about the benevolence of American foreign policy with facts. It's no wonder that American media outlets immediately turn the spotlight onto him, and not ...

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Quote of the Day | 1026

[...] it will not end with Trump, however badly he may lose the election. Yes, he is a shallow, mendacious, boorish and extremely dangerous man. But those traits ensure that he is not an outsider but the perfect representation of ...

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Quote of the Day | 1028

I think there’s some semantic game-playing in how you chose to summarize our debate. My view of journalism absolutely requires both fairness and rigorous adherence to facts. But I think those values are promoted by being honest about one’s perspectives ...

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Quote of the Day | 1029

IN an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline “Gollum joker killed in live rail horror’ we incorrectly stated that Julian Brooker, 23, of Brighton, was blown 15ft into the air after accidentally touching a ...

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Quote of the Day | 1029

So the short answer to the question “why are (some) drugs illegal?” is simple. It’s because the editors of powerful newspapers want it that way. They see getting drugs banned as a tangible measure of success, a badge of honour. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1102

there’s something grotesquely captivating about trying to stay abreast of what’s happening, a sense that you can conquer or make sense of the horror by knowing everything, by plumbing the depths. I did think it was somehow necessary to do ...

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Quote of the Day | 1104

If I’d thought about what the princess’s death and secular canonisation meant for the newspaper business, then or for many years afterwards, I would probably have mulled over the tabloids’ creation of the paparazzi market that led to the crash. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1106

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) ...

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Quote of the Day | 1106

You can get more of everything online except human attention. If you’re lucky enough to work in a business that aims to attract people’s attention for positive reasons -- and good enough at what you do to succeed at it ...

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Quote of the Day | 1107

I had this letter from a blind woman, who said, “I don’t understand. My husband tells me people are criticising Spitting Image in the papers for not being funny, and I think it’s the funniest programme on television; I ‘watch’ ...

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Quote of the Day | 1108

The Times figures are sliding faster than anybody else in the quality market, which suggests to me that we overlook the degree to which the digital forms of our journalism act as a kind of sort of marketing device for ...

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Quote of the Day | 1110

It is difficult to impose ideas onto people on the level of argument; people will resist, often outright and without consideration. The natural, critical, conscious mind serves essentially as a spam box, trapping and discarding the vast multitude of input ...

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Quote of the Day | 1113

the main thing to realize about the history of newspapers is that The New York Times didn’t become important because it had great content. That may be the way The New York Times remembers it, but it’s not true. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1113

this is part of the endgame for publishing on the Internet: free distribution blew up the link between editorial and publishing and drove them in opposite directions — atomization on one side and massively greater scale on the other. And ...

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Quote of the Day | 1116

Of course history is easily manipulated – though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened. We need a knowledge of history to spot the delusions of leaders making false parallels, such as President Bush ...

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Quote of the Day | 1117

then there is the rapid casting aside of ancient, wise rules. Our irreplaceable liberty and justice, which took a thousand years to create, are in shreds thanks to hasty and emotive measures that did no good. And now we have ...

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Quote of the Day | 1118

We would replace PR-speak and certain Orwellian words and expressions with more neutral, precise language. If someone we interview misused language, we would paraphrase instead of using direct quotations. (Examples, among many others: The activity that takes place in casinos ...

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Quote of the Day | 1119

Instead, advises Cuban, Murdoch needs to aggregate his strongest products, drawing on the vast resources of his empire, to package tailored media to specific demographics. As an example, he cites an imagined “Newsjunkies Subscription” that includes access to every News ...

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Quote of the Day | 1119

There are too many critics writing too many pieces. And even the ones who have reacted against the shallowness of the current conversation, the ones who turn out long, detailed considerations of films have found a way to make themselves ...

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Quote of the Day | 1119

Judgment and shame have always been a way to try and control women. And it works. There’s a reason why, for the first three decades of my adult life, I kept my head down. Why I couldn’t speak in public. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1120

The truth is that, then as now, violence in the streets is inspired by key actors, who act knowingly, and who are informed and often linked up with privileged access to media. There are agents provocateurs -- preachers, journalists, politicians ...

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Quote of the Day | 1130

Highly structured organizational fields [presidential campaigns would qualify as one, but so would large news organizations] provide a context in which individual efforts to deal rationally with uncertainty and constraint often lead in the aggregate to homogeneity in structure, culture ...

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Quote of the Day | 1201

finding and keeping an audience online is almost impossible, and the early stages of that journey are thankless and terrible. You have to publish a lot, even though absolutely no one will read your stuff for a long time. And ...

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Quote of the Day | 1202

one of the problems of journalism today [...] is how we are narrowing our focus and becoming indoors in terms of internalizing our reporting. The detail is what I think we’re missing. See, the idea is to see all you ...

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Quote of the Day | 1205

Now is the time to counter lies with facts, repeatedly and unflaggingly, while also proclaiming the greater truths: of our equal humanity, of decency, of compassion. Every precious ideal must be reiterated, every obvious argument made, because an ugly idea ...

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Quote of the Day | 1207

Noam Chomsky was once asked which he enjoyed producing more, his linguistic writing or his political writing. The question apparently took him by surprise; he didn’t know why anyone would think he “enjoyed” doing his political writing. He did it ...

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Quote of the Day | 1209

TV is designed for small screens. Through trial and error over the decades, the camera angles, shot selections, framing, and everything else about a TV show have evolved to maximize the impact on a 21-inch view space. This is not ...

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Quote of the Day | 1214

A month after you’ve quit the news, it’s hard to name anything useful that’s been lost. It becomes clear that those years of news-watching amounted to virtually nothing in terms of improvement to your quality of life, lasting knowledge, or ...

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Quote of the Day | 1215

Does the age-old practice of informing readers through a flood of successive news reports still make sense? The answer, of course, is: No, not really. Nowadays, when readers want to find specific information or learn about a topic in depth, they have ...

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Quote of the Day | 1217

A writer who thinks, who rewrites, isn't just bucking an ugly trend. He or she is also taking control of a power that can delight the heart, encourage, entrance. That same power can deceive, betray and murder and it is ...

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Quote of the Day | 1217

I rarely wrote about Hitchens because, at least for the time that I’ve been writing about politics (since late 2005), there was nothing particularly notable about him. When it came to the defining issues of the post-9/11 era, he was ...

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Quote of the Day | 1218

Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not. Douglas Rushkoff, 'The Decade Google Made You Stupid'

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Quote of the Day | 1218

Ten years ago, you could allow people to post links on your site, or to show a list of links which were driving inbound traffic to your site. Because Google hadn't yet broadly introduced AdWords and AdSense, links weren't about ...

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Quote of the Day | 1218

if a half-dozen volunteers can keep a page with more than 4 million users from being a microphone for the antiscientific, is it too much to ask for newspapers to police their own editorial pages as proficiently? Nathan Allen, 'Reddit’s science ...

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Quote of the Day | 1218

Akerlof and Shiller contend that behavioral economists have failed to explore, or perhaps even to see, the ubiquity of phishing, and the extent to which free markets promote it. Instead of a catalog of human errors and behavioral biases, they ...

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Quote of the Day | 1219

the Internet, which was supposed to give us all broader outlooks by exposing us to all points of view, has effectively done the opposite for many. The ease of selecting, filtering, and blocking news sources and friends has allowed them ...

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Quote of the Day | 1221

The Murdoch story – his corruption of essential democratic institutions on both sides of the Atlantic – is one of the most important and far-reaching political/cultural stories of the past 30 years, an ongoing tale without equal. Like Richard Nixon ...

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Quote of the Day | 1221

I don’t know anything about what I want to know. What do I want to know? I want some reporter to penetrate the Taliban. Who in the fuck is the Taliban? You know? I’ve been reading “Taliban” for two years, ...

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Quote of the Day | 1224

I keep waiting for one of these distressed, failing newspapers to realize that it has nothing to lose and get a little crazy and create something brand new and brilliant for readers and advertisers. I keep being disappointed. Jack Shafer, 'The ...

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Quote of the Day | 1225

A closer look at these matters brings us to the real value of WikiLeaks. Over and above their oft-stated goal of scaring the bejesus out of any would-be misbehaving varmints in power is an even simpler and more valuable message ...

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Quote of the Day | 1228

A good science story should explain what is known by now (science), what the new study brings that is new (news) and why does that matter to you (phatic discourse). The lack of space usually led to omission of context ...

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Quote of the Day | 1228

There was never a golden age of blogging, just a golden age of mainstream interest in what it all meant. Don't worry about it; opportunity does not knock but once. You need obsession, a work ethic, and an uncommon voice. ...

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Quote of the Day | 1230

If nothing the president says can be trusted, reporting what the president says becomes absurd. You can still do it, but it’s hard to respect what you are doing. If the president doesn’t know anything, the solemnity of the presidency ...

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Quote of the Day | 1710

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance ...

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Quote of the Day| 0218

Consumers of negative news, not surprisingly, become glum: a recent literature review cited “misperception of risk, anxiety, lower mood levels, learned helplessness, contempt and hostility towards others, desensitization, and in some cases, ... complete avoidance of the news.” And they ...

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Quote of the week | 0318

following the global news coverage over the last few days, you would think that a reactor meltdown, should it occur, will be the gravest threat to the devastated nation so far. And that the incident was calling into question the ...

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Quotes of the Day | 0222

Blogs were once the outlet of choice for people who wanted to express themselves online. But with the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter, they are losing their allure for many people — particularly the younger generation.Verne G Kopytoff, ...

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Quotes of the Day | 0322

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