SFGate.com: North Korea fuels rocket to launch satellite
Posted an hour ago, Friday morning: evidently, North Korea is fueling up a rocket to launch. Way to keep up with the news, SFGate.
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What’s in a new name?
Pundits and bloggers everywhere are scratching their heads in regard to the name of the new iPad: iPad. Here’s why they’re wrong, as usual.
Read More »“Balanced” ≠ “true”
One of the biggest problems we face in the dying world of journalism is the fallacy — pioneered by Fox News and other right wing propaganda outlets — that there are always two sides to a story, that every truth has several options. Is NPR about to break this cycle and return to reporting truth instead of “balance?”
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At the intersection of journalism and advertising lies the New York Times
Seen today on the New York Times website.
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- This is from the home page of a major news network.
- If journalists really needed a poll to gauge public opinion, they wouldn’t use something as unscientific as a website vote widget.
- Is this a joke?
RT @umairh: Only in America would we (be dumb enough to) “debate” whether reporters should be “truth vigilantes”.