April 2009
10 posts
Freud Called it The Reality Principle. Repealing...
1. “Left to Just Study What We Do.”
The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued....
Catch that term "poly-partisan?” It's new. (New...
PoliticsDaily is the brainchild of Martin Moe, senior vice president at AOL, and is built under Bill Wilson’s new MediaGlow division, which is building new content brands distinct from AOL itself.
Moe says that while the Huffington Post is largely a content aggregator, has a leftward bent, and doesn’t pay many of its bloggers, PoliticsDaily will be 100% original content from “experienced” paid...
Infantalizing the Readers By Disabusing Them of...
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The New York Times’ Peter Baker, who reported on the Clinton and Bush 43 administrations for the Washington Post, said that the Obama administration is “in some ways … more transparent,” but in other ways, “they’re just like every other White House.”
Baker said that while the Obama team will engage with reporters more than the Bush team did, the traditional...
First Hypothesis: The Exaggerations Grow but the...
www.motherjones.com/KevinDrum
Chart of the Day - 4.23.2009
— By Kevin Drum | Thu April 23, 2009 10:01 AM PST
Just kill me now. Via The Monkey Cage.
How hard is it dislodge he said, she said from...
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For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.
“The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,” the coalition said in a scientific “backgrounder” provided...
"The Press Failed." He's Wary of the Clamor for...
To some degree, words failed us all in the aftermath of 9/11, a time of fear and disorientation. Journalists did not meet the challenge of holding the executive branch accountable, politically and morally, in the run-up to the Iraq war. Such failures, it is true, were not gross manipulations of the law in the service of inhumanity, but they were failures nonetheless. And they carried a human...
That Jefferson Quote Newspaper Journalists Always...
This is what Jefferson said:
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of...
Andrew Sullivan's Greatest Post Says That Torture...
“But torture gives false information. And the worst scenarios that tortured detainees coughed up - many of them completely innocent, remember - may well have come to fuel US national security policy. And of course they also fueled more torture. Because once you hear of the existential plots confessed by one tortured prisoner, you need to torture more prisoners to get at the real truth. We do...
“Mr. Obama spent his first few days in office rolling out an orchestrated series...”
– Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New Tork TImes, January 24, 2009
DRUDGE CAN ONLY BE CONTACTED BY GETTING ON DRUDGE
That mystery is critical to understanding the appeal and power of Drudge in the world of political journalism. Drudge’s process of picking stories remains unknown to almost everyone and guessing why he chose what he did has reached parlor game status among the D.C. chattering class.
And, the “how” and “why” of that process matters because Drudge’s site...
