The Daily Show is Bad Meme
Ed Brayton and Mike Dunford have been talking about a Washington Post article on a study that is concerned with the ill effects the Daily Show and Jon Stewart are having on our democracy. Basically...
View ArticleYglesias Satirizes Hysterionics over Bloggers
Matthew Yglesias has a great satire on the hysterionics in the MSM about blogging: The world, then, has recently been dangerously lacking in “-ofascist” (or perhaps O’Fascist, like in Ireland) threats....
View ArticleGoogle’s huge book scanning plan
Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the New Yorker, has an excellent article on Google’s plan to scan all the books they can get their hands on into digital: The legal assertion at the core of Google’s business...
View ArticleCartoons as political weapons
David Wallis, writing in SFGate, has a very interesting article about politics and political cartoons. I like all the historical background, although I don’t entirely buy the one-sidedness of the...
View Articlescience communication, heading your way
As many of you may/may not know, my two wonderful colleagues and I organize an interdisciplinary lecture series on science communication, called the Science Communication Consortium. It followed on the...
View ArticleNeurological bias = a liberal media? I don’t think so
Over at Economics of Contempt, there is an argument that liberal media bias has to exist because there is evidence that partisanship changes the way that our brains process information. (This is not...
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