“A testament to the power of the Net to surface traditional-media wrongdoing”

December 2, 2007

Dan Gillmor on Joe Klein’s fiasco in Time.

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“Rove Lies Again …”

December 2, 2007

It’s beginning to look like Karl Rove has overestimated both the public’s gullibility and its appetite for more of his lies.

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“National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the “liberal media”?”

December 2, 2007

It is almost – no, it simply is – embarrassing to watch MSM pundits write so bloodlessly and lifelessly while day after day Glenn Greenwald produces such brilliant work. It’s fascinating – to me, anyway – to watch the cream rise to the top of blogging, and to watch the quality differences between old and […]

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Acts of Ignorance

December 2, 2007

This case has far too much in common with this one. We are spending far too much time pandering to and tolerating the spread of ignorance.

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“US says it has right to kidnap British citizens”

December 2, 2007

Shouldn’t we be troubled that the current U.S. Administration sees no inconsistency between criticizing Islamofascism for having a morality straight out of the middle ages and looking to the Inquisition and 19th-century bounty hunting for moral justifications for torture and kidnapping?

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(Un)Fair Copyright

December 2, 2007

With the launch of the Government’s lobbying campaign in favour of disastrous US-style DMCA copyright legislation here in Canada just around the corner, Michael has started a Facebook group on fair copyright. Join and stay plugged-in to developments on this critical issue. From the group’s description: The Canadian government is about to introduce new copyright […]

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Leopard’s Wacky Wifi

November 30, 2007

What a pleasure to discover that Leopard has its own point of view when it comes to deciding whether or not to connect to my wireless router. No more autologin for this puppy – this one doesn’t follow rules, isn’t intererested in same-old, same-old. Nope, life is about unpredictability and the infinite variability of experience. […]

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“I’m not saying whether I did or whether I didn’t”

November 28, 2007

No doubt there’s a perfectly innocent explanation for this.

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“Is Schreiber testimony about truth, or avoiding consequences?”

November 27, 2007

Thank god we’ve got smart folks like Don Martin around who can set the stage for us, but we’re intelligent people, we don’t really need to ask this question, do we?

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Isn’t it time for the vice president to get a heart transplant?

November 27, 2007

Surely this question is one word too long.

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Mainstream Media and the Scream of the Peacock

November 27, 2007

There is nothing quite like a ferociously intelligent mind biting down hard on an issue of urgent consequence – this one, Stephen King on the state of the nation in mainstream media. And yes, I think both it and my comments on Mathew’s post about UGC here can both be true at the same time, […]

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The Really Rather Remarkable David Remnick, on Russia

November 27, 2007

Ever since I read the remarkable Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick has been an intellectual hero for me, and it’s with great pleasure now that every week I enjoy The New Yorker, so wonderfully rejuvenated under his stewardship. It helped, perhaps, that I read that book while working in Budapest, just a few years after the […]

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