Monday, August 31, 2015

Arguments for a content bubble

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First off a quick lesson in the importance of good blogger housekeeping. It is important to keep track of what you have and have not posted ...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

The third reason Trump is so interesting

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I think we've covered 1. and 2.: 1. Trump has brought a gun to a knife fight and has no intention of politely turning it in at the do...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

An unintentionally informative sentence about the culture of the education reform debate

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From a recent Upshot post by movement reformer Kevin Carey: If Congress removes that authority, it will mark the end of an optimistic, e...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Did you know Happy Birthday was copyrighted?

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This is Joseph I did not.  Nor was I aware of a lawsuit trying to change this until quite recently.  But the actual arguments have become ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Hopefully not followed the next day by a BBC segment on what it feels like to be going to Mars

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Two MIT students just schooled a company trying to send people to Mars Two MIT engineering students just faced off with a private com...
Monday, August 24, 2015

"... while Governor Bush's attire was tastefully sheer and minimal"

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As mentioned before, the mainstream press faces a difficult choice. For reasons of substance and style, most members of the press would very...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Trump's first gaffe? (tone of voice:tentative)

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I don't have time to write this up today in detail, but events are moving quickly and I did want to get my stake into the ground. I'...

Wishful Analytics

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As mentioned previously, Donald Trump's campaign has definitely strained the standard assumptions of political reporting, Though this i...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Who's Afraid of Lonesome Rhodes?

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A Face in the Crowd is a memorable and entertaining film powered by a force-of-nature performance by Andy Griffith. It is also, in retrospe...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Donald Trump as stressor – – Five Thirty-eight edition

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As previously argued,  the Donald Trump candidacy is providing the kind of stress that highlights flaws in our journalistic system. On the...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

More on Joseph the unclear

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This is Joseph. As a follow-up to this pos t, there is a guest post on Mathbabe pointing out how painful the new technology of monitoring...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Quote of the day

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Ezra Klein: Take spending cuts. It's table stakes in a Republican primary to talk about how you'll cut spending on Social Security...
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More naked emperor reporting -- at this point, the NYT is just trolling us

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If they knew I was alive, I'd think they were just screwing with me. I post something on how Trump highlights the mainstream press...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Rolling back the Civil Rights Movement one school district at a time

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Exceptionally good and important reporting from the Tampa Bay Times. Failure factories Aug. 14, 2015 By CARA FITZPATRICK, LISA GARTNER a...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Yes, it is possible to lose money doing this

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'Fantastic Four' Could Lead to $60 Million Write-Off for Fox Whenever a corporation uses this much money this quickly and this...