Archive for the 'Current Affairs' Category



Yes, words mattered to David Shaw

Thursday, August 4th, 2005
It was, for those of us who study media bias, one of the most famous anecdotal leads in the history of the mainstream media’s awkward attempts to write about itself. When reporter Susan Okie wrote on Page 1 of the Washington Post last year that advances in the treatment of premature babies could undermine support for […]
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Partial-truth semantics at New York Times

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
I have a confession to make. From time to time, I have been known to read about a fascinating article that is in some elite publication that does not publish online versions of its articles and then wait to blog about it until somebody, somewhere goes ahead and posts the text anyway. Thus, I can […]
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