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“It’s a place where wealthy people talk unironically about the problems of the world, while lobbying frantically to ensure that they stay several thousand miles away.”
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journalists need to start leaping en masse from the sinking ship of the newsroom and start working for search engines, nonprofits, think tanks, collaboratives, and other kinds of businesses and organizations.
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‘The Daily Sun is running a “South Africans first” response to the violence. They dismiss with contempt notions of “brotherhood” with other Africans and charge that what must come first is the quality of life and rights of their readers, ordinary
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Free electronic transcripts from UK courts available online.
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We are historicized, interpretive creatures, and we come to any practice — including medicine, science, and economics — with myriad normative commitments and philosophical beliefs that undeniably and in important ways color how we construct our methods
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[I]n most western societies, there is now a class in which tedium vitae is very common, almost normal. This is the class from which the great majority of heroin addicts now comes….
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‘“The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder,” has risen to best-seller status with nary a peep from the usual outlets that help sell books: cable television and book reviews in major daily newspapers.’
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At Fox News, media relations is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them … it works. By blacklisting reporters it does not like, planting stories with friendlies at every tu
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“The deepest fear of my war years, one still with me, is that these happenings had no real purpose.” J. Glenn Gray, The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
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