Archive for the 'The Media Landscape' Category
Another in a series brought to you by the military-installed & amazingly free sideways adjectives…
Bjørn Lomborg backtracks so quickly, he falls down quite a bit, in a mis-titled piece over at Project Syndicate. I say mis-titled because the secret in the title: Global Warming’s Dirty Secret turns out not to be Global Warming’s secret [...]
A modest post, including, as a special bonus, an enlightened understanding of the terms amazingly free and military-installed…
Here we have a story about a developing country, realizing that it can’t afford some of the most expensive medicines, announcing that it will therefore begin producing generic versions of these very few very expensive medications. This is [...]
An interesting little video from 1968, in which Noam Chomsky debates William Buckley about the Vietnam War. What struck me is how very civil they both were towards each other, even though they held such different views on a highly divisive issue:
Now flash forward to 2006, and look how the [...]
Well, just a slight ripple in the press, about the lack of preparedness for a bio-terror event, and the glacial pace that the authorities are preparing for such an event is contrasted with the near certainty among those leaders polled that a bio-terror attack is likely within the next 5 years. This [...]
Or, all hail King George! (And if you don’t , I’ll cut your newspapers to ribbons…)
So here’s what a recent Op-ed piece looked like in a major newspaper. A petty Thirld World dictatorship? An Eastern Bloc Country before Perestroika?
NO, it’s AMERICA and it’s TODAY, 23 December 2006.
New York Times: [...]
Or, all hail King George! (And if you don’t , I’ll cut your newspapers to ribbons…)
So here’s what a recent Op-ed piece looked like in a major newspaper. A petty Thirld World dictatorship? An Eastern Bloc Country before Perestroika?
NO, it’s AMERICA and it’s TODAY, 23 December 2006.
New York Times: [...]
There are so many little nuggets in Amartya Sen’s book Development as Freedom that I really don’t know where to start, as there were so many little post-it notes stuck at passages that I thought were either entertaining or made excellent points, or contained interesting perspectives on points I’d thought about before that I stopped [...]
A couple of interesting articles about a possible public health situation in China. Due to the realities of modern travel, though, any public health issue is not just a national issue, but one of international concern. It is an example of a reason [...]
Another post over at Global Guerillas, in which everyone dances around the truth, afraid to touch the real issues:
Another post over at Global Guerillas, in which everyone dances around the truth, afraid to touch the real issues:
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