i wonder about people
There is a distinct difference - and a thick black line of journalism ethics - that separates focusing on a public controversy from creating it by saying (or publishing) something for which no evidence can be presented to support it.
article on Glenn Beck boycott
Can you consider yourself a journalist if you knowingly use words you know damn well are misleading? Death panels, death tax?
Why can't we argue without injecting crazy everywhere?
Random notes on watching the Japanese election returns--
The places where culture shows itself are interesting! Many, many scenes of LDP candidates prostrating themselves in front of groups of people, literally begging for their continued support.
Whenever they show the winning candidate, the whole office is banzai-ing away.
It is almost scary how little experience is mattering in some of these areas! In Ishikawa, a former prime minister of the LDP is neck-and-neck (if not losing) to a complete rookie from DPJ. The differences in how elections work because the system is parliamentary vs. presidential is very interesting. Because people can't directly vote for Hatoyama or Aso, instead they seem to be choosing through their local candidate, even if that means voting in a complete amateur, for that party label.
article on Glenn Beck boycott
Can you consider yourself a journalist if you knowingly use words you know damn well are misleading? Death panels, death tax?
Why can't we argue without injecting crazy everywhere?
Random notes on watching the Japanese election returns--
The places where culture shows itself are interesting! Many, many scenes of LDP candidates prostrating themselves in front of groups of people, literally begging for their continued support.
Whenever they show the winning candidate, the whole office is banzai-ing away.
It is almost scary how little experience is mattering in some of these areas! In Ishikawa, a former prime minister of the LDP is neck-and-neck (if not losing) to a complete rookie from DPJ. The differences in how elections work because the system is parliamentary vs. presidential is very interesting. Because people can't directly vote for Hatoyama or Aso, instead they seem to be choosing through their local candidate, even if that means voting in a complete amateur, for that party label.