Media

Has Slate Declined?

כ"א באלול ה'תש"ע (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 (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 (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 (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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Game in The Weekly Standard

ל' בשבט ה'תש"ע (14 February 2010)

It seems that I’ve read about a hundred people’s comments in the past week about the Weekly Standard article about dating that dealt at some length with game. I thought the comments were pretty good, so I’ve got very little reason to elaborate, but there are a few points I wish could have been addressed [...]

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Inglorious Basterds

כ"ז במרחשון ה'תש"ע (14 November 2009)

Check out the headline of this article about Inglourious Basterds in Haaretz: Inglourious Basterds offends some Israelis, but others get the joke. Does that sound foolish to anyone else beside me? Is it even conceivable that some people might be offended because they get the joke? Anyway, in the spirit of there being no business [...]

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