Vale Dave Allen, cricket skulduggerry, bias, Ikea-sensitive ...
Another part of my childhood dies: vale Dave Allen (via drjon).
Great headline about skulduggery in a local cricket competition
Test your unconscious bias.
Ikea apparently doesn’t want to offend Muslims by showing women putting together its furniture. How very multicultural of it. And would they be male Muslims or female Muslims it was worried about?
A Gallup poll on use of blogs.
Confronting the death of environmentalism.
The Governator wants to ban the sale of junk food in schools.
Some advertising adjuncts just work. And a remarkable piece from a National Party MP. A Centre which studies sexual minorities in the military. An Army Times op-ed advocating full integration of gays into the US military.
Looking at how awful mainstream media reporting of international events has been over recent decades.
Doing Media Watch’s work for it. Any moderately diligent reader of the Oz blogosphere comes across media screw-ups and scandals among major journalists that don’t make it to Media Watch because they are not ideologically convenient. But there is no bias on the ABC, of course not.
Mainstream media reporting is often particularly bad about blogging. A blogger has fun over one such report.
About China’s dodgy economic statistics. And also.
Europe is economically lagging behind the US: the current EU levels in GDP, R&D investment, productivity and employment were already reached by the US in the late 70s/early 80s.
John Kerry thinks the American people need to be guided in their use of media.
Great headline about skulduggery in a local cricket competition
Test your unconscious bias.
Ikea apparently doesn’t want to offend Muslims by showing women putting together its furniture. How very multicultural of it. And would they be male Muslims or female Muslims it was worried about?
A Gallup poll on use of blogs.
Confronting the death of environmentalism.
The Governator wants to ban the sale of junk food in schools.
Some advertising adjuncts just work. And a remarkable piece from a National Party MP. A Centre which studies sexual minorities in the military. An Army Times op-ed advocating full integration of gays into the US military.
Looking at how awful mainstream media reporting of international events has been over recent decades.
Doing Media Watch’s work for it. Any moderately diligent reader of the Oz blogosphere comes across media screw-ups and scandals among major journalists that don’t make it to Media Watch because they are not ideologically convenient. But there is no bias on the ABC, of course not.
Mainstream media reporting is often particularly bad about blogging. A blogger has fun over one such report.
About China’s dodgy economic statistics. And also.
Europe is economically lagging behind the US: the current EU levels in GDP, R&D investment, productivity and employment were already reached by the US in the late 70s/early 80s.
John Kerry thinks the American people need to be guided in their use of media.