Bob Herbert is leaving the NYTimes today – his last editorial post is quite good, Losing Our Way. Here is a sampling of what Bob has to say: So here we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and […]
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In an article in today’s NYTimes, Paul Krugman raises the problem of how Washington policy manipulators … uhh makers have downgraded the issue of Jobs from number 1 to an also ran against “cutting the deficit”. Yet just 4 months before Paul Krugman was a guest commentator on ABC TV Sunday news program, This Week,
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This blog cited the NYTimes as being the outstanding source of information on all aspects of the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami and now Nuclear Disaster. But there was some concern that this was just a weekend affair and the NYTimes would be hard pressed to continue the excellence of its coverage. Let the following excerpts be
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If there was any doubt before, Japan’s earthquake and tsunami removed any lingering ones and revealed the NYTimes as the world leading masters of Web interactive graphics and coverage.Our sister blog, Bookraft, has already pointed out some of the leading technologies used by the NYTimes for last year’s Winter Olympios. But covering the Japnese Earthquake
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Hillary Clinton is right – for real news about the Middle East, Al Jazeera is the goto website. After trying BBC, CNN, Fox News, NYTimes, and Time ye Editor finally tried Al Jazeera and found page after page of news of what is happening in the Mideast from Morocco to Pakistan. And based on some
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Of late the Republican Party is fond of wrapping itself up in true constitutionality and the spirit of the Founding Fathers. And thus one must ask in the spirit of Patrick Henry, if this be treason.. then fear not to say it is so. The “it” is the Republican “Starve the Beast” policy starting with Ronald Reagan
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In a week the US media devoted to every nuance of the commercial and human tragedy that is Charlie Sheen, the following was said: “Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news,” … “You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around
As the NYTimes prepares to take a third kick at charging for its web + online services, here is another example of why web beats paper from the editorial opportunity and customer satisfaction points of view. Here is a story about Justin Bieber that could be done in a magazine or newspaper but isn’t … or more
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England’s Royal Opera House is featuring the life of Anna Nicole Smith – and its a smash hit. At first blush this is The English falling for Entertainment Weekly or TMZ titillation. Or sort of reverse update of the movie Shakespeare in Love. But as it turns out opera has always loved a fallen Woman
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To be a leader in the Republican party is a think-less and thankless task. As Paul Krugman has pointed out many the times, Republicans have to reject simple math and logic in justifying their catastrophic fiscal policies. This is GOP party leadership that must carefully evade exposure of its near treasonous “Starve the Beast” economic
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Ye Editor has always wondered who does a good chart of the global weather patterns? Okay, not all the wind patterns, barometer readings, humidity – it is the temperature that is of interest. Yes, on a crude scale – tell me if the weather has been trending hotter over the world in the last few
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Here are two views of President Ronald Reagan that were offered on the Sunday News Morning Shows. One, Meet the Press on NBC consciously lionizes Reagan. There are no analytical or moderating opinions here: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The other, on Need to Know on PBS presents
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Given the huge impact that the Web and Social Media like Facebook and Twitter have had in the Arab revolutions of the last month, a debate has started on whether the Web can be effective as a counter balance to repressive regimes. Or is it, like all other media , subject to corruption and being
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When Time magazine was rumored to make the Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg its Person of the Year, Ye 5th’s Editor thought that another Media “Academy Award” was a little too much. But with the revolt in Tunisia and the outbreak of dissent and protests in Egypt, both largely organized and propelled by social media including Facebook
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The political cartoon by Barry Blitt says it all – President Obama is a Republican in his economic heart . This view has been slowly accumulating, but with the Bush Tax Cut compromise a significant chunk of the NYTimes editorial writers have turned against President Obama`s critical economic policies. They are saying the President is,
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“You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on” just a joke from a Gridiron Dinner in 2001.
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The Yin: Hallelujah for Flash Mobs given this performance at a mall in Welland ON Canada: This scene has been viewed over 27 million times on YouTube. Most popular of 2010. Now Flash Mobs are organized events that take place most often in a public space usually involving a singing and/or dancing performance by dozens
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Shell Oil, in an advertisement at the NYTimes, is promoting the website Energy Galaxy where the public is invited to address the question of sustainable energy for transportation == sustainable mobility. Somehow, the NYTimes is involved because there are prominent links to articles on the NYTimes website: The problem is that just like back in
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In January of 2011, the NYTimes has announced that its online site will go on the dime. Users will have to pay again for reading pages on the website. This is not the first foray into charging – for a period in 2006-2008 NYTimes charged for reading its most popular editorial writers and some additional
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The NYTimes has done something about the US Budget and its huge deficits that is most commendable – it has made the sprawling size and growth of the US Federal Government budget understandable. Not Business Week, not Forbes, not the Wall Street Journal nor any other of the Titans of the Business Press have done
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On Reddit, a popular Web Post Sightings Site, there was an interesting set of responses to Fox News blatantly manipulating the “News” again. Briefly, Jon Stewart showed how Sean Hannity had video remarks by President Obama edited so the wrong impression/conclusion was drawn. Ever since Andrew Brietbart got a black HUD official fired by also
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Summer Theater is well …. soapy, meller-dramatik, and often tainted with fits of outrighteous comedy and unexpected self-satire. And this season’s IT Summer Stock is packed to the gilt edge with certified Box office bonanzas. First there is a new Summer Stock Valuation leader – AAPL, displacing vaunted enemy number one, MSFT from the top
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One can hardly expect MarketWatch, being in the Dow Jones stable of financial news powerhouses like the Wall Street Journal and Barrons to be the most impressive. But Marketwatch is making a superb case for itself with a)its independence of point of view and b)its willingness to take on major issues and not tow the
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Jon Stewart of the Daily Show is making a case for being the best National News anchor. It shows how rotten the TV news has gotten when the Host with The Best F#@king News Team Ever and with the most baudy language, cheapshot headlines, and kiddies bathroom humor rises to the top of the TV
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Popular Mechanics has a very interesting article in its July 2010 issue – Energyland – The Race to Cheap, Sustainable Power. On the cover of the magazine PM promises “The truth about energy”, “No more hype-real world ideas to power our future”, “Debunking myths about: wind power, solar, shale oil, bio fuels”, “The Clean Coal
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As noted here news coverage in the US TV media has been faltering badly, with Fox News being allowed to employ blatant lies and distortions while defiantly proclaiming itself as a source of “fair and balanced coverage”. But other networks, seeing Fox anomalous ratings success [the more you prolong and comfort public misconceptions the better
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Takethe5th modestly notes that it has scooped the NYTimes on its Apple Bully Boy story. In today’s NYTimes [June 24th, 2010] the story headlined for the Technology section is: Long the Upstart, Apple Plays New Role: Goliath. Here is a summary of the NYTimes storyline: Apple is now seen by some as an anti-competitive industry
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For the past few weeks, a Labor revolt has been occurring in China … with hardly a peep about it in the TV media. First, there were the string of suicides at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen which employs nearly 500,000 workers alone and manufactures almost all of Apple and Dell electronics and a big
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In our previous post on Chinese views as published in the Beijing based Chinese Business Magazine Caixin Online, Takethe5th found the posting tainted – written by an American and not yet translated into Chinese. The following article is dramatically more authentic – written by a Western-exposed, Chinese journalist and available in Chinese as well as
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Wall Street Reforms: Small Change This week, legislators will come together to write a final bill on financial legislation, despite an outcry on the dearth of scope and depth in current reform proposals As legislation finalizes on the financial and banking industry, efforts are finally beginning to reach a boiling point and prominent critics have
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The BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is acting like a proof of concept on economic and financial regulation. BP has had the run of the mill on oil drilling with a cosy and inhouse relationship with its regulator for drilling the MMS-Mineral Management Services. Something that Wall Street has been attempting to establish
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The NYTimes in its global edition is reporting much more on Chinese affairs – and why not ? Chinese manufacturing companies are major suppliers across more industries such as electronics, many consumer household goods, and now basic chemicals or finished metals. Of course there is the not small matter of $2trillion in US debt held
