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Re: Nidal Hassan Motivated By Islam? Groundbreaking!
Clarity of thought is groundbreaking. Not tongue in cheek as the bournite posts, but ground breaking words by Hitchens because of decades of censorship of real Atheist insight. If Atheists write it, it must be wrong according to religious ...
Posted to Fighting Words by AmericanAtheistNavyVet on November 19, 2009
KEEP BABY'S BRAIN GREEN
Baby's brain is a complex environment that requires care. Baby is pre-wired to soak up what he/she needs to develop . Messing around with these ecology is at best pointless and at worst harmful, especially in the hands of merchandisers. The Disney refund story is incredibly positive news in the world of ...
Posted to Chatterbox by mydigitalfamily on November 15, 2009
No one left to change your Liberal diapers.
Everyone who reads the news knows that FOX is the only news (let me repeat this) the ONLY news that covers NEWS with accuracy and truth. Are they perfect 100 % of the time: I won't make that claim. You cannot sit here with a straight face and demonstrate that the New York Times covers news without a left leaning bias; and the same applies to ...
Posted to Politics by thetumeoreport on October 18, 2009
Nonprofit Journalism
As founder and editor in chief of Women's eNews, a daily, Internet-based news site covering issues of particular concern to women, I found this piece shallow and poorly informed to the extreme. Pro Publica is an outcome, not a trend-setter. I founded Women's eNews in 2000 and continue as its editor in an attempt toward balancing the coverage of ...
Posted to Press Box by Rita Henley Jensen on October 9, 2009
The previous comments are why I read Slate...
...all of them make good points. However, I have to disagree that Shafer reveals bitterness in his post. I don't think you can separate the crisis in journalism today from the silly glorification by the media of so-called 'stars' within their own ranks. The 'crisis' is the media's refusal to look beyond the surface of stories, to use ...
Posted to Press Box by Squeek on October 9, 2009
Slate, Dragaon Slayer of CW! vs. Chicago nerds!
Slate, oh Slate, fierce critic of the “MSM!” Dragon slayer of Conventional Wisdom! Champion of journalistic integrity! Of what do you speak?Thank god for the ‘nerds’ of journalism. People like Ben Joravsky and Tom Tresser still believe in and practice investigative journalism. They ask hard questions. They even expect ...
Posted to Politics by Squeek on October 2, 2009
In current environment, more lessons to learn
I think there are more lessons:“The story, I quickly discovered, was a Web-based journalist's dream.” What does this mean? Do ‘web-based’ journalists hold themselves to a lower standard than their so-called MSM counterparts? Are they exempt from fact-checking stories they use? Do they have the privilege of taking stories by other journalists - ...
Posted to Prescriptions by Squeek on September 18, 2009
Really?
''...so there's no danger of journalism-that-is-good-for-you being driven off viewers' desktops.'' What?! How on earth can you come to that conclusion after managing to fill nine previous paragraphs with examples of cable editors finding the most meaningless, titillating drivel on earth? How can one come to that conclusion after just looking at ...
Posted to Press Box by thfump on September 18, 2009
This Article is Music to my Ears
I think you nailed this whole Kennedy death coverage: grotesque. Even admirers of Kennedy should be embarrassed by the excess. The Levi ad was the most appalling example of commercial manipulation since Pepsi changed its logo to resemble Obama’s. Kennedy was a Senator. He did his job. His ‘comeback’ after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne can ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Squeek on August 31, 2009
Is bogus trend spotting itself a bogus trend?
Bogus trend spotting seems not to have spread past Slate in 6 years of Jack Shafer writing about it. I'm thinking either:a) it requires a journalistic eye, more than even most media people possess, and most of our hardcore journos are stretched too thin and too focused on Real Issues to care about the culture;or else b) it takes too much of a ...
Posted to Press Box by pwlsax on August 15, 2009

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