Category Archives: Journalism
Do not pity progessives
From an article at Truthdig entitled “Do not pity the Democrats” by Chris Hedges, this opening paragraph: There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, … Continue reading
Filed under Censorship, Freedom, Journalism, Politics, Sermon
A book review: Merchants of Doubt
This guest review is courtesy of Richard Harter, whose own website is here.
Filed under Book, Guest post, Journalism
A quote that should be true
… even if it probably isn’t At a television news station, one of the employees put up a sign in the elevator: “The ‘7’ button is broken. Please press ‘4’ and ‘3’.” Then he stood back and watched the behavior … Continue reading
Filed under Humor, Journalism, Media
Pundit parody
Australia doesn’t have lunatics of the calibre of the white supremacist Glenn Beck, at least, not on the media, but we have sufficient punditry to fuel a small nation all right. Idiots like Alan Jones, who incited a racial riot, … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Journalism, Media, Politics, Pop culture, Technology
Linkraiser
Lots of links today. First, let’s deal with the NYT post by Virginia Heffernan attacking science blogging. There are some fair comments there – I have objected to the religion bashing in many science blogs for a long time, and … Continue reading
#SBFail
The title is the Twitter hashtag for the ongoing implosion at Scienceblogs. Now several more have left the building, PZ is on strike (and so Twittering up a storm), others are thinking about it, and people are making snide satires … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Journalism
Herding cats, ethically
There is a famous ad on Youtube in which cat wranglers herd cats to a final destination (for slaughtering? really?) as a metaphor for providing IT services. What is underpinning that humor is that domestic cats are not, typically, herd … Continue reading
Filed under Academe, Administrative, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Journalism, Rant
The Return of the Linking Dead
Can philosophers use the iPad? Hell, yes. Of course, we would say that, wouldn’t we? Also, check out this TeX for Philosophy site. Is this when journalism lost its moral compass? When it stopped calling torture “torture”? Well, not really, … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Epistemology, General Science, History, Journalism, Links, Philosophy, Pop culture, Science
