by JS O’Brien There is a very important man in human history whose name too few people know: Alfred Korzybski. He’s the father of general semantics, and before you say to yourself, “Oh, […]
LA Times: Another editor out for refusing to make budget cuts
Today I’d hate to be the managing editor of The Los Angeles Times, John M. Arthur, 60, or its innovation editor, Russ Stanton, 49. That’s because rumor has it they’re on the […]
I-35W bridge downed by design flaw; infrastructure issues fade from headlines
Buried inside the nation’s news pages — lost among the big takeout stories about which presidential candidate said what to whom with what insulting effect, President Bush’s confusing trip to the Middle […]
Democrats are second-class citizens in eyes of corporate media
Today’s Guest Scrogue is Natasha Chart. BooMan pointed out that Edwards’ message isn’t resonating with the natural constituencies that you’d think it would: hyper-partisan and low income voters. I’ve heard people say […]
Science, reporting and the new California report on autism and thimerosal
I’ve written in the past about the problem of bad science reporting in the US. The short version: very few American reporters have enough grounding in statistics and the sciences to accurately […]
Quotabull
Maybe I have liberated us to actually let women be human beings in public. … There was just a really wonderful moment there when, you know, people I think got a sense […]
Sen. Clinton and our War Against Women
In a NY Times op-ed today, prominent social analyst Gloria Steinem weighs in on America’s persistent gender and politics problem: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the […]
"The Wire"–the best show on television and a guide to American decline
By Martin Bosworth Last night saw the premiere of the final season of “The Wire,” HBO’s long-running drama that started out as a gritty look at the cat-and-mouse battle between overworked, underpaid […]
'Best political team' punts: CNN's 'Ballot Bowl' bereft of reporting
Thanks to CNN, our presidential candidates have had unfettered — and unfiltered — access to the viewers not watching the Tournament of Roses Parade or an assortment of college football games this […]
2007 in Review, pt. 5: Politicians, whores and the media who love them…
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of the Scholars & Rogues year-end wrap-up. Today we tackle the dirty, but oddly riveting world of politics. We’ll take a couple shots at the […]
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