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The Top of Our Game: Interesting Times : The New Yorker
february 2010 by Vaguery
"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
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writing
cultural-norms
propaganda
mainstream
fashion
fads-and-fallacies
february 2010 by Vaguery
How Superman Defeated The Ku Klux Klan - Superman - io9
november 2009 by Vaguery
"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
november 2008 by Vaguery
"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."
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epidemiology
publication
MSM
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media
Google-shadow
citation
marketing
academia
november 2008 by Vaguery
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