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The Magnificent Folly of Great American News Reporting

November 15, 2008

I don’t know John Crewd­son, but I’m sorry he’s out of a job. He’s the sub­ject of this post at the Chicago Reader: The Nobel Prize in medi­cine was awar­ded last month to Luc Montag­nier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of the Pas­teur Insti­tute in Paris for dis­cov­er­ing the HIV virus in 1983 — but not to the […]

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TV News: faking it in the good old days">TV News: faking it in the good old days

February 11, 2008

I stumbled upon this TV news “fakery” clas­sic from the early 1960s, which comes care of CBS vet­eran Daniel Schorr’s mem­oir, Clear­ing The Air. Schorr is lunch­ing his boss, CBS chief, Bill Paley.

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Why The Public Doesn’t Deserve The News

February 11, 2007

It depends on the habit of attend­ing to and look­ing into pub­lic trans­ac­tions, and on the degree of inform­a­tion and solid judg­ment respect­ing them that exists in the com­munity, whether the con­duct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards oth­ers, shall be selfish, cor­rupt and tyr­an­nical, or rational and enlightened, just and […]

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