“Read the declassified report by the intelligence community that came out in early January,” said (Hillary) Clinton. “Seventeen agencies, all in agreement – which I know from my experience as a senator and secretary of state is hard to get
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from Daniel Henninger at the WSJ Political Disorder Syndrome: Social media—a permanent marinade for the human brain—is causing a vast, mysterious transformation of how people process experience, and maybe someday a future B.F. Skinner will explain what it has done
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from the archives of A Part of the Truth is More Misleading than All of Lie: from Marginal Revolution The New York Times wrote Amid ‘Trump Effect’ Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants the rest of the story:
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from The New Yorker, EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT by Louis Menand Tetlock also found that specialists are not significantly more reliable than non-specialists in guessing what is going to happen in the region they study. Knowing a little might make someone a more
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from Thomas Donlan at Barron’s, Ignorance is Not Bliss “Tech writer Bruce Sterling commented in 2007 that using Twitter for ‘literate communication’ is ‘about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite The Iliad.’ The
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by Henry Oliner The Kathy Griffin episode is another in a line of media double standards. One only must imagine what the response would have been if the tastelessness was a conservative holding a decapitated head of Obama. She crossed
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from The New Yorker, EVERYBODY’S AN EXPERT by Louis Menand It is the somewhat gratifying lesson of Philip Tetlock’s new book, “Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?” (Princeton; $35), that people who make prediction their
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Pollster Nate Silver wrote a series of analysis on the polling and data pertaining the recent election. The most recent is There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble: I recently reread James Surowiecki’s book “The Wisdom of Crowds” which, despite
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Pollster Nate Silver wrote a series of analysis on the polling and data pertaining the recent election. The most recent is There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble: The share of total exposure8 for the top five news sources9 climbed from roughly 25
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Wise investors learn to ignore the daily fluctuations and the daily stock market news. I am amused at the market reports at the end of the day explaining why the market went up or down. It would have been much
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from Kevin Williamson at The National Review, The Press vs. the President It is possible, if you are not mentally crippled, to hold your mind two non-exclusive ideas: Donald J. Trump stinks, and the press stinks. Trump’s spat with the
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from Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist, 4 Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media Coverage Of Trump If the media can’t be trusted to fairly report on successful governors, genius Yale professors, or Martin Luther King III, they can’t be
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from Jonah Goldberg’s G-File at National Review I agree with pretty much all of the right-wing criticism of the mainstream media these days, or at least the intelligent stuff, of which there has been plenty. What the MSM still fails
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from the Sultan Knish, Daniel Greenfield, End The Media The White House press corps is an outmoded institution. There’s no need to crowd a small number of media elites into a limited space. Or any space at all. We live
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From The Federalist, Donald Trump Is The First President To Turn Postmodernism Against Itself by David Ernst: Democrats gleefully welcomed Trump’s victory in the Republican primaries with the expectation that they’d bury him in a pile of condescension for being a
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from The Wall Street Journal, Trump, The Press, and he Dictatorship of the Trolletariat: But few journalists have appreciated the degree to which Mr. Trump’s entire political and governing strategy depends on trolling them. They’ve mostly assumed his penchant for
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from David French at National Review, Don’t Shred Your Credibility for Your Tribe The larger truth, however, is that those with no credibility make poor critics. Given the recent past, media outrage at Spicer’s press conference starts to seem less
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from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, So things will change. The press’s “insider” status — which it cherishes — is going to fade. (This is producing waves of status anxiety, as are many other Trump-induced institutional changes). And, having abandoned, quite openly, any pretense of objectivity
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The 24-hour news cycle and its ubiquitous media brings every detail of every issue and policy to us. Debates limit responses to critical issues to two minutes. Congressional hearings for cabinet nominees are similarly limited. This precious time is wasted
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Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe writes a wonderful piece to start the year, What experts predict, reality will contradict “I think that you listen too much to the soldiers,” wrote the British statesman Lord Salisbury to the viceroy of
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