What if Donald Trump wins? And we realize that the triumph was largely due to the outsized and relatively free media coverage he got early on…… Because he drew such large audiences that it enhanced the profits of the very
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from Garrett Swasey’s final sermon by Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe “The world is too much with us,” opens William Wordsworth’s famous sonnet. “Late and soon/Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” If that was true when he
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from David Daley in Salon, Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” excerpt: I think Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand
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from David Daley in Salon, Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” excerpt: Politics has always been performance art. So we’ll see who the candidates are who can
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From The National Review, There Is No Such Thing as Unbiased Journalism, So Let’s Stop Pretending by David Harsanyi excerpts: If Stephanopoulos had disclosed his charitable giving beforehand, rather than press Schweizer on his past partisanship, he could have
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from The National Review VIctor Davis Hanson writes George Stephanopoulos’s Clinton Foundation Hypocrisy Is Staggering excerpt: When he attacked Schweizer for a supposed conflict of interest in having been a Bush speechwriter for four months, he assumed that his own
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From Bloomberg Megan McArdle writes Pollsters Are Worse Than Ever excerpts: I won’t opine on What It All Means. But let’s talk about the surprise factor: The polls were wrong. And as Nate Silver points out, this seems to be
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It is not news that big media is politically biased. The recent Netanyahu election was predicted to be close if not actually a defeat for the leader. He won by a substantial margin. That they were so wrong in their
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Economist Mark Perry writes in his blog, Carpe Diem, US middle class has disappeared into higher-income groups; recent stagnation explained by changing household demographics? Excerpts: Here’s another way to understand the dynamic income shift over the last half century that
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Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog The Sultan Knish, The Rise of the Mediacracy. Excerpts: The media is no longer informative, it is conformative. It is not interested in broadcasting events unless it can also script them. It does not
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Victor Davis Hanson writes 2017 and the End of Ethics in National Review Online: Excerpts: During the next presidency, will the filibuster still be bad, or will it suddenly be good again? Will there be a nuclear option again? Recess
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“There is so much noise coming from the media’s glorification of the anecdote. Thanks to this, we are living more and more in virtual reality, separated from the real world, a little bit more every day while realizing it less
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
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“The more frequently you look at data, the more noise you are disproportionally likely to get (rather than the valuable part, called the signal); hence the higher the noise-to-signal ratio. And there is a confusion which is not psychological at
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It is interesting how ill informed so much of the coverage is of the Zimmerman case. More of this from Reason Magazine, Zimmerman Backlash Continues Thanks to Media Misinformation by Cathy Young. Excerpts: This narrative has perpetuated the lie that
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From Memo To Dick Durbin: All Americans Are Journalists in The Investor’s Business Daily: With the mainstream press in their pockets, what Durbin and others truly fear are citizen journalists and the free and open dissemination of ideas that threaten
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One of my favorite quotes: First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the socialists. and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for
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Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: The proliferation of bad faith experts, experts for hire and amateur experts means that there is more bad science than there is good science, more wrong ideas than
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Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog, Sultan Knish, Everything is Fake, 8/28/12 Excerpts: It’s a lie, but knowing a lie for what it is requires either being able to do the math or have the common sense to know it
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April marks my fifth year blogging, with over 2,000 postings. When I started I had no idea where this was going. It provided an outlet for writing and thinking and it became a public notebook of my thinking and reading.
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