Center of Attention
Apr 22nd, 2007 | 5 responses
A round up of recent reporting and commentary by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
Jeff Jarvis writes that the criticism of NBC’s decision to show excerpts of the Cho videos is misguided. They shouldn’t be criticized for showing them, they should be criticized for sanitizing them. Money quote from the opening sentence of his post: “It is not journalism’s job to be safe or to make the world safe for our consumption. It is journalism’s job to tell us uncomfortable truths.”
I agree with Libby Spencer: This video segment, spoofing Apple and President Bush in one fell swoop, is funny.
Brad DeLong excerpts Andrew Samwick on “an important principle of decentralized information processing systems.” (It’s actually more interesting and less complicated than it might sound.)
Megan Donovan at GTL looks at the Census Bureau’s role in identity theft.
At Black Shards, marc examines No Child Left Behind.
Sean Aqui suggests that “maybe we are all sheep.”
Finally, Angry Independent links to a NYT article from early last week about the decline (?) of a city with which we are both affiliated. Granted, I live in the ‘burbs, having done my fair share of contributing to urban sprawl, but anyone who studies the history of metropolitan areas knows that outlying communities don’t survive well or long without a vibrant urban core. Important reading for anyone who’s concerned about the questionable future of a once-great city, be it this one or another.
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Good image Pete. The other one disappeared seemingly.
Well, if you want to use this thread to collect news stories that are of interest to us (as opposed to our Indian guest’s latest piece of anti-US garbage, for example), why not also check out Mayor Bloomberg’s little stunt in the news, charging motorists an $8.00 “fee” to enter Manhattan.
I bet the municipal unions and their members, who would be employed to take the money from motorists, are salivating. But what about everyone else?
“The most controversial idea in the plan, from the mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability[** GAG **], is a proposal to charge motorists for driving into Manhattan below 86th Street on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Trucks would be charged $21 a day and cars would be charged $8, on top of the city’s already [outrageously] expensive parking.
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1115509695&hl=en
DLS If your going to snipe at the Injun, attack at his posts. Kinda backhanded and Mr Bean like…
Rudi: there’s nnothing backhanded about Mr. Bean.