Media and Opinion Making
Now if newspapers would simply disclose their ADA score prominently on the front page, there would be no problem. The issue is the pretence of objectivity. Indeed, why not supplement news items with the cumulative ADA scores of the individual jouranalists? Given that journalists today seem to regard themselves as having an agenda ('to watch the government', or 'to look out for the little guy' or whatever) the situation is broadly analogous to articles published in scientific journals, in which disclosure of author's interests is increasingly required.
Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist... 12/14/2005While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
Bombers for Dialogue
James Lileks
savages the Presbyterian Church. And its very amusing.
Don't tell the Presbyterians about Tibet or Sudan. It would absolutely ruin their day.
The companies the church wishes to pressure include Caterpillar, which makes bulldozers purchased by the Israelis for the sole purpose of knocking down innocent homes of gentle lamb herders, and Motorola, which among other things sells night-vision goggles that give the Israeli Defense Forces an unfair advantage over people who want to smuggle in bombs to encourage the social-justice dialogue.
Murderous Tofu Eaters
Damn! So this explains my political views. Too much tofu.
Men whose masculinity is challenged become more inclined to support war or buy an SUV, a new study finds.
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'I found that if you made men more insecure about their masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, tended to support the Iraq war more and would be more willing to purchase an SUV over another type of vehicle,'
Masculinity Challenged, Men Prefer War and SUVs
One Less Kafir
Over in West Philly, right beside the
Stop Snitchin' t-shirt was a fantastic one, reading
One Less Kafir. Nice clean white shirt, match my kippah! [Note did some reading - apparently Jews aren't really classed as kafir (non-believers) anyway, so it would technically be a accurate not ironic.]
Drink Soy Don't Drive
It's a small planet and there just isn't room for everyone to keep their pet dairy cow.
Every year, the average dairy cow produces 19.3 pounds of gases, called volatile organic compounds, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District said. Those gases react with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone, or smog.
With 2.5 million dairy cows — roughly one of every five in the country — emissions of almost 20 pounds per cow mean that cattle in the San Joaquin Valley produce more organic compounds than are generated by either cars or trucks or pesticides, the air district said.
In San Joaquin Valley, Cows Pass Cars as Polluters
Its just not cricket
Will
Imran Khan use this incident to incite lethal riots?
A female Palestinian security prisoner in Ashkelon's Shikma Prison tore up pages from a copy of the Quran and threw them toward the toilet during a routine search Sunday, the Israel Prison Service said.
Ynetnews - Palestinian prisoner destroyed Quran
