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 [...]
… In closed markets and/or less-open cultures, corporations can have powerful identities. In Japan, for example, many people feel privileged to work for their corporations and attribute a great deal of identity and benevolence to them. In the United States, large corporations will also contain many people who treat “the corporation” as a specific entity, [...]
All I ask of you is to perform a certain scientific experiment. You go to hospitals and dead-houses, and the horrors that you do there don’t affect you. If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it for the blood [...]
Matthew Freud, relative of Edward Bernays… makes sense…
“The cost of an Associate with seven years of tenure is almost 55% more than the cost of an Associate with one year of tenure, yet there is no difference in his or her productivity, moreover, because we pay an Associate more in salary and benefits as his or her tenure increases, we are pricing [...]
Call in the Public Relations cleanup crew before this hits the press! When you are the chief executive officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals you’d better hope that your organization gets plenty of good press – and the last thing you want in the news is the story of how [...]
From my August 30th, 2008 post regarding the Bayer CropScience Facility Explosion in Institute, West Virginia: I rarely read much of the news, though it does lead one to wonder – how often do reporters substitute a quip from a company spokesman/government official/authority figure for factual information? Conveniently enough, a congressional review of the incident [...]
Leave it to Canadian reporting to sum up the entirety of an exasperating issue fraught with futile appeals to logic in a single expository sentence: In 1976, then U.S. president Gerald Ford ordered a national vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak of swine flu at a military base in New Jersey. In the end, [...]
As reported at the Brad Blog, Lexington 18 News, and Matt Blaze’s Exhaustive Search (where I happened upon it), a case has been made against election officials in Kentucky. They are accused of altering votes attempted on an electronic voting machine. Their technique exploited the weakest link in the electronic voting security chain: both usability [...]
Somewhere, nestled in-between a food court and a fashionable shoe store, a new kind of propaganda awaits the consciousness of impressionable (and bored) teenagers: the new US Army Experience Center. Pay no attention to the man (you know, the one with the gun, orders to seek and destroy, Modular Lightweight Load-bearing Equipment, et cetera) behind [...]
