Media

Wikileaks

כ״ט בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Monday 6 December 2010)

I don’t have any strong feelings for or against Wikileaks at all, which feels very weird, because I definitely think I should. Seth Roberts endorsed a New Yorker commenter who argues that honest people support Wikileaks and dishonest people oppose it. This seems particularly disingenuous to me, and I’d add at least one more group [...]

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Sex and the City

ה׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Monday 13 September 2010)

For many years I was only vaguely aware of Sex and the City. In all the time I lived in New York, I was not about to pay extra money for premium cable, and peer-to-peer filesharing had not yet advanced to the point where I could download entire television shows and watch them (it also [...]

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Has Slate Declined?

כ״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 31 August 2010)

Like TJIC, I read the firmly middlebrow Slate very regularly (I’ve subscribed to the main Slate RSS feed for about three years). Also like him, I have noticed some changes in Slate’s overall quality over time. Here are some things that I think Slate is doing right: Podcasts. I listen to the Political Gabgest and [...]

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Lady Gaga & Gene Weingarten Are Secret Lovers

ט׳ באב ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 20 July 2010)

I’m sure he’d appreciate that title, though it would make him a homosexual. Right? Anyway, I understand that Gene Weingarten is supposed to be funny, but is it even right to laugh when a guy tells a joke about his own industry’s obsolescence and what they’re trying to do to save their own asses? I [...]

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A new high for journalism

י״ט בסיון ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 1 June 2010)

This is from Time Magazine and Reuters: The Blue-Red divide, by almost every measure, has gotten worse, and the ubiquity of electronic media spreads intense political and cultural disdain in the blink of an eye. The always-enlightening Google reveals that typing in “Obama worse president ever” yields 3.6 million results, versus 1.7 million for “Bush [...]

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Effects of Divorce on Children

ו׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 20 February 2010)

The way to measure the effects of divorce on children is to compare children of divorced parents with children of parents who are still married. Right? In a New York Times op/ed, Ruth Bettelheim says that there isn’t a difference: Studies conducted in the past 20 years have shown that on all meaningful measures of [...]

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