The quickest way to lose the support of the media is to investigate them to find their sources. The Justice Department has poked the bear with its seizure of phone records of Associated Press journalists. To call the move dumb would be to dignify it. The media have treated the Obama administration well to this […]
Posted on May 14th, 2013 by admin
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Newspapers have long considered themselves change agents. They pride themselves on speaking truth to power. So it is ironic that this deep into the digital age newspapers still are unable to change, if you believe this anonymous newspaper executive. While it is always dangerous to take someone’s word who insists on concealing his name, what […]
Posted on May 9th, 2013 by admin
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Apologies for mistakes are good but sometimes they can be too late to be of much benefit to one who is sorry. That might be the case facing Microsoft with its admission that Windows 8 needs work. Users have been complaining about the operating system for months, ever since it appeared. Microsoft took the role […]
Posted on May 8th, 2013 by admin
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Activists can go too far and make themselves look absurd, if not worse. That is the case here. To go after a governor because he squashed a spider on his desk in front of school children is dumb. PETA is using any excuse for its publicity campaign and as a result, it is reinforcing […]
Posted on May 7th, 2013 by admin
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When joblessness reaches 27 percent in a country, the government had better watch out. The seeds of revolution have been planted, and the public is ready to roar in anger. Perhaps Spain’s only safety at the moment is that there is no prevailing political philosophy other than democracy to help the country find a way […]
Posted on May 6th, 2013 by admin
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This is the kind of decision that a President of the United States has to make — kowtow to a dictator or let a US citizen rot in a North Korean jail. Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, would prefer the US to bend because it would make him look good before his own people and […]
Posted on May 3rd, 2013 by admin
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IBM has made world headlines with the best kind of publicity stunt — demonstrating its amazing prowess at the atomic level. The stop-action animation using carbon monoxide molecules is not a work of art, but the fact that one can manipulate atoms to this degree is stunning. Why is the publicity so good? Because it […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2013 by admin
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This is the first web site ever created. CERN, the European science agency, has restored it in honor of the 20th anniversary of the web. Twenty years… It seems longer than that, probably because the web has toppled nearly every other form of media in becoming the communications medium of the earth. No one would […]
Posted on May 1st, 2013 by admin
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