So why are we so enthusiastically supportive of the myth of The Thing That Will Change Everything? Simple. It’s the Age of Hysteria. Keeping our clients in a state of anxiety is just plain good business. – Bob Hoffman for AdWeek What’s good for the government is good for the advertiser.
Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it. – Thomas Jefferson “Even in one of the places where violence is worst … El Diario was still doing a lot of good reporting on crime,” said Carlos Lauria, a CPJ senior coordinator. “The [...]
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann With about 2.0 million civilian employees, the Federal Government, excluding the Postal Service, is the Nation’s largest employer. – Career Guide to Industries, 2010-11 EditionUnited States Department of LaborBureau [...]
Turn it up! It’s obviously working! [T]he demonstrators clash with police, literally instigating fights with riot police sometimes, thinking it will further their cause. But the police don’t represent the interests behind any political agenda any more than the demonstrators do. They are there simply to maintain order while the protesters exercise their rights. The [...]
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Twenty-six participants were given Aesop’s advert for hard work and another 26 were given Kafka’s more pessimistic tale. As predicted participants who read Kafka’s story perceived it as a threat to the way they viewed the world. They reacted to this threat by affirming their cultural identities more strongly than those who had read Aesop’s [...]
[via White House Photo Stream] There is a metaphor somewhere in this image…
Journalism Warning Labels [via Valentina Tanni] Must say I’m jealous of Tom Scott’s journalism warning labels – they may not be useful (it’d take a prohibitively great deal of time to vet the daily newspaper and apply stickers for an effective information campaign) but perhaps a few choice applications would remind readers to think critically [...]
