So, a few people contacted me about my most recent post, citing the recent examples of establishment-biased editing in Wikipedia.
Sure, Wikipedia is falable. It always was. It’s constantly changing, often pranked, slanderized, pimped out, trash talked, and everything else that you can think would happen to a typical community with no real police [...]

While reading a newspaper article today, I happened upon a sentence mentioning everyone’s favorite tubes expert, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who apparently had a little too much work done on his home, at least too much to convince Federal Prosecutors.  But anyway, I wanted to know what was going on with Ted, so I typed [...]

In today’s immediate gratification, hyperedited, New York minute, culture, we seem to want everything now, everything compressed, sound-bytes, pull-quotes, the sixty second version, that sort of crap.
At first I thought that this is just another result of the influence of the MTV generation.  Say what you want about MTV now, but when it first started [...]

While waiting for my chicken sandwich at the corner deli today, I was drawn to the second paragraph of the front page New York Times article. Regular readers (all eight of you), will know that this issue strikes a chord with me, but if you don’t mind, please indulge just one more time. [...]

Following up on my late night discovery (see this post), I want to take you all on a little journey into the wonderful world of “impartial” journalism. But first, a little bit of context for you… Anyone who tells you that news agencies are biased is completely correct. Anyone who tells you [...]