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The Top of Our Game: Interesting Times : The New Yorker
"Anyone covering Washington, not excluding me, will sooner or later turn to a phrase like “refocus its image” or “a perception that the President has come to look” or “a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message,” because they come so easily, and because they make it unnecessary to say anything substantial, which means thinking hard and perhaps suffering the consequences. Still, as an exercise in accountability, political journalists should ask themselves from time to time: Would I write this about a war, or a depression? In the same vein, a government official once told me that the best way to cover Washington is as a foreign capital—as Baghdad, or Kabul."
politics  journalism  writing  cultural-norms  propaganda  mainstream  fashion  fads-and-fallacies 
february 2010 by Vaguery
How Superman Defeated The Ku Klux Klan - Superman - io9
"According to Mental Floss Magazine, Kennedy managed to work all of the Ku Klux Klan's most secret recruiting and organizational practices into his 1940s radio serial, "Clan Of The Fiery Cross." And as a result, the Man Of Steel dealt a crushing blow to the racist organization:"
racism  politics  mainstream  MSM  reporting  social-engineering  radio  comics  nanohistory 
november 2009 by Vaguery
The “predict flu using search” study you didn’t hear about: Oddhead Blog: Prediction Markets, Gambling, Electronic Commerce, Artificial Intelligence: David Pennock: Yahoo! Research
"in the world of science, being first means a great deal and can be the determining factor in whether a study gets published. The truth is, although the efforts were independent, ours was published first — and Clinical Infectious Diseases scooped Nature — a decent consolation prize amid the go-google din."
via:arthegall  forcshalizi  science  epidemiology  publication  MSM  mainstream  media  Google-shadow  citation  marketing  academia 
november 2008 by Vaguery

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