By: mclaren
As David Simon has shown with detailed statistics and specific budget numbers, this problems goes back roughly two decades to the time when the parent companies of newspapers started slashing the...
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Re #2, one could make a corresponding charge concerning teachers who were “Education” majors, instead of having a firm grasp of a subject area such as history or math. Is that why public education in...
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A great read on the subject, by an insider: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/News-Culture-Lying-Paul-Weaver/dp/0029340217" rel="nofollow">News and Culture of Lying</a>, Paul H. Weaver (1994)
View ArticleBy: Oblat
> Another angle to this problem concerns the general level of mathematical and scientific illiteracy among journalists, many of whom have little or no knowledge of these critical fields of...
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Speaking of mythical numbers, has anyone ever read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month" rel="nofollow">The Mythical Man-Month</a> by Fred Brooks? . ....
View ArticleBy: Greenwald: "Dog-training the press corps - Journalists who heap the most...
"<a title="Salon" href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/30/dog_training_the_press_corps/singleton/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dog-training the press corps</a>", Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 30...
View ArticleBy: 10 Wednesday PM Reads | The Big Picture
[...] Overlooked Statistic in Economics (The Atlantic) • We know nothing because we read newspapers (Fabius Maximus) see also The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and...
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[...] Ritholtz pointed out two good reads this morning - We know nothing because we read newspapers (Fabius Maximus) and The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and understand...
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On a related note, BBC News actually expressed some skepticism on Global Warming: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm" rel="nofollow">What happened to global...
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Re, #3, meaning the BBC’s previous years of yelling that we are all doomed if something isn’t done NOW…
View ArticleBy: mclaren
As David Simon has shown with detailed statistics and specific budget numbers, this problems goes back roughly two decades to the time when the parent companies of newspapers started slashing the...
View ArticleBy: Arms Merchant
Re #2, one could make a corresponding charge concerning teachers who were “Education” majors, instead of having a firm grasp of a subject area such as history or math. Is that why public education in...
View ArticleBy: zenpundit
A great read on the subject, by an insider: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/News-Culture-Lying-Paul-Weaver/dp/0029340217" rel="nofollow">News and Culture of Lying</a>, Paul H. Weaver (1994)
View ArticleBy: Oblat
> Another angle to this problem concerns the general level of mathematical and scientific illiteracy among journalists, many of whom have little or no knowledge of these critical fields of...
View ArticleBy: mtjy
Speaking of mythical numbers, has anyone ever read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month" rel="nofollow">The Mythical Man-Month</a> by Fred Brooks? . ....
View ArticleBy: Greenwald: "Dog-training the press corps - Journalists who heap the most...
"<a title="Salon" href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/30/dog_training_the_press_corps/singleton/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dog-training the press corps</a>", Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 30...
View ArticleBy: 10 Wednesday PM Reads | The Big Picture
[…] Overlooked Statistic in Economics (The Atlantic) • We know nothing because we read newspapers (Fabius Maximus) see also The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and...
View ArticleBy: Last Ditch Efforts
[…] Ritholtz pointed out two good reads this morning – We know nothing because we read newspapers (Fabius Maximus) and The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and understand...
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