RECOMMENDED READING, READER’S DIGEST VERSION
Nasty, Brutish and Short. This is almost drive-by linking :o)
Matt at Conjectures & Refutations on “ The Neuroscience of Cognitive Biases“. Matt also has had an article published in the online journal The New Libertarian. Congrats !
Penraker rakes the shills at the NYT for push-polling the NSA wiretap story and engaging in blatant factual misdirection and omission. Having looked at the wording of the questions on the survey he’s quite correct.
The NYT has lost its vaunted credibility status not through virtue of being partisan – they have always been the official newspaper of the power structure of the elite liberal establishment – but by being dishonest, arrogant and just plain sloppy.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Do you think they became so sloppy because with this right-wing liberal government in power at the present, there really isn’t any challenge anymore?
January 27th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Thanks Mark!
January 27th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
hi Larry,
I think it is partly a generational thing with the Boomer editors being ready to loosen standards with greater selectivity than thier WWII and Silent Generation predecessors.
Secondly,the establishment itself – the CFR – Kennedy School of Government types -does not have the gravitas with American society it once did. The NYT once was pretty scrupulous about dotting the i’s and t’s for fear of losing influence with this important segment of the readership, whose views they generally reflected. I think the attitude of the NYT now is ” those people should be taking cues from us ” rather than the reverse.
At least that is my impression. Hubris rather than partisanship per se.
Matt,
You’re welcome !