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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
— G.K. Chesterton
journalism
Linguistic Gymnastics
God forbid they call this "fetus" what it really is - a child. If an 8-month fetus survives a C-section, it's called a baby. If it survives being removed by psychos, it's still a fetus. If a child dies after birth, it's called a dead baby. If […]
A Study in Contrasts
I always find it fascinating how different news outlets cover the same story. As
an example, here are four stories, two from Reuters and two from AP. Notice the
distinct differences in tone and presentation.
Frail Pope Struggles Through Lourdes Mass (Reuters)
Pope Struggles Through Lourdes Sermon, Needs Water (Reuters)
Frail Pope Celebrates Mass […]
Global Village Idiocy
A Liberal Slant to the News? by Nat Hentoff
In my experience, the two groups most acutely sensitive to criticism are cops and journalists. During the Giuliani years, fear of retribution was so great that some New Yorkers were hesitant to ask a cop for his or her badge number.
As for journalists, Bernard Goldberg's book Bias: […]
Blog Ethics
The following articles present blogs as something more than a fad, more than leisure-time rambling. Blogs can be a powerful tool. They offer a chance to bypass traditional media. I have often heard that professional journalism is unbiased. Bullfeathers. If you've never read a liberally-slanted newspaper, watched […]
