Archive | June 11, 2010

Copa Mundial 2010: why this World Cup is so important for the US

Copa Mundial 2k10 kicked off today in grand fashion, with host South Africa taking a point off of heavily favored Mexico. Tomorrow’s featured match (featured here, anyway) sees the US taking on an even more heavily favored England side that, despite having some of the best talent on the planet, has been lackluster in its […]

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If objectivity is dead, then replace it with subjectivity done well

Be objective. That’s the credo my newsroom presented to me, the young cub, four decades ago. But it did not require much time for me to realize that objectivity was merely an ideal, a sales pitch that proclaimed “we are professional and unbiased; thus believe us.” As the Grey Lady claims, it does its job […]

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Is texting like Victory Gin?

by Joseph Domino George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, is the definitive fictional postulation of an absolute authoritarian society. Citizens exist for the justification of the state, have no status as individuals, and are subject to propaganda which can rewrite history. In Orwell’s dystopian world, privacy is non-existent. “Telescreens” are omnipresent as “Big Brother” watches one’s […]

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