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The press nods as absurdity, lies prevail in the budget debate - 0 views

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press nods as absurdity lies prevail in the budget debate

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  • thinkahol * on 20 Aug 11
     
    Would more accurate news coverage prompt Tea Party and Republican leaders to pay more attention to facts in their assertions about the economy? Maybe yes, maybe no. But, suggests Henry Banta, if the coverage continues at its present dismal level, we'll never find out.
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YouTube - A Look at an American Propaganda Program. - 0 views

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  • thinkahol * on 16 Aug 10
     
    April 22, 2008 Democracy Now! Pentagon's Pundits: A Look at the Defense Department's Propaganda Program The New York Times has revealed new details on how the Pentagon recruited more than seventy-five retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. The Times reported the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance. We speak with Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) and Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. (excerpt)
Parycek

Science and Web 2.0: Talking About Science vs. Doing Science « The Scholarly ... - 0 views

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  • There are far too many sessions on journalism and policy, and far too little on doing science . . .
  • “killer app” that integrates social media into the mainstream of science.
  • Tools for doing science are much harder to envision and build.  But these sorts of tools are much more likely to see uptake and use by the community, simply because scientists are more interested in doing science than they are in talking about science.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • ScienceBlogs has around 80 regular bloggers. The Nature Network has around 40 blogs that have been updated in the last month (this figure seems to have dropped by 20% since I last checked). David Bradley lists 600-plus “science type” users of Twitter.
  • Parycek on 19 Mar 10
     
    Science Online 2010, the annual meeting for cutting edge users of Web 2.0 technologies in science, was held last month. It filled the science blogosphere with coverage and allowed far-flung colleagues to meet in person.
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Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street - 0 views

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Live Coverage: Occupy Wall Street

shared by thinkahol * on 25 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 25 Sep 11
     
    Along with the movement in America, 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are planned in Japan, Israel, Canada and a half-dozen European nations. The aim of #OCCUPYWALLSTREET is to draw 20,000 protesters to New York's financial district in a non-violent protest to spark a mass movement against corporate dom…
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