Wesley tells Inigo: Get used to disappointment
Building trust in media
by Public User
Wesley tells Inigo: Get used to disappointment
by Public User
One point Gladwell made was that there are no bad neighborhoods there only bad blocks
. By this Gladwell meant that crime is concentrated in small areas (blocks), which require a concentrated response, rather than a blanket “stop and frisk” policy that affects whole neighborhoods.
by Public User
I was surprised that Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” had a staff person call show sponsors to ask permission to make fun of them:
There was a certain person who was in charge of if the show wanted to make fun of a corporate sponsor or someone under the umbrella of one of the corporate sponsors, this person who worked for the Daily Show would call that company and try to convince them it’s cool to be made fun of. It’s okay to be made fun of on the Daily Show. The clear implication was if that company says no, it’s not getting on there. So imagine the level of corporations that are somehow tied to Viacom, Comcast, all of those, every entity. If they don’t want to be made fun of on the Daily Show, then they’re not going to be. Well, then the Daily Show can’t critique half of what owns this country.
by timlangeman
In an interview published July 19, 2023, William Arkin told Democracy Now that the US doesn’t have visibility into what Ukraine is doing because Ukraine and the US do not have a treaty:
The United States knows as little about what Zelensky is up to and what he he’s thinking and what his views are about the future as it does about Vladimir Putin and his future plans and intentions and so this might come as a surprise to some people but as my sources explained it to me the reality is that Ukraine is not an ally of the United States we have no treaty obligations
by timlangeman
If the Muyun Brothers are right that there are no soldiers who do not want to be heroes
, is there a way that all can achieve their goal?
by Public User
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” draws its title, in part from a line where the books’s main character, Elizabeth says: I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
by Public User
In an interview on Rising, Matt Taibbi said how does science recover from this how do you regain trust and it’s similar to what happens in journalism after an episode like for instance the WMD affair or even Russia gate I would argue uh you know once the public is betrayed and they see that they’ve been betrayed it’s very hard to win that trust back and in science it’s it’s the same thing
by Public User
In an interview he did with Michael Brooks, Ken Klippenstein said:
They wouldn’t really care that Trump is lying and that he’s saying these patently ridiculous things.
by Public User
Why do they still call it “New” York? It has been around for ages.
Here’s an explainer, Hamish!
even old New York was once New Amsterdam
why they change it I can’t say people
just like it better that way
by Public User
Judith Miller says the New York Times found that the paper had lacked skepticism
, but they did not interview any of the editors or name specific reporters as responsible.
Miller disagrees that there was insufficient skepticism, but that we were accurately conveying wrong information
.