tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post7446987384171992645..comments2024-03-28T14:57:10.887-04:00Comments on the daily howler: THE GUARDIANS FILE: Major professors abandon their posts!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60230160076157696842021-08-03T08:32:58.452-04:002021-08-03T08:32:58.452-04:00LOTTO, lottery,jackpot.
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http...Want to see some really bad science writing?<br /><br />https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/09/26/DARPA-invests-in-propellant-free-rocket-theory/7121537904594/?ls=5<br /><br />Want to read a Wikipedia article that takes a difficult subject and leaves it incomprehensible?<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect<br />impCaesarAvghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384806750440039982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41451674393797553782018-09-26T06:56:35.218-04:002018-09-26T06:56:35.218-04:00خدمات شركة ركن كلين للخدمات المنزلية بالرياض
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Are you tal..."gossipy women on the tube"<br /><br />Are you talking about Rachel Maddow?<br /><br />If you watch "All In" with Chris Hayes, you will see that none of his pundits are selected for their looks. On the other hand, I have no doubt that Katy Tur was assigned to the Trump campaign because she is cute (in a Hope Hicks kind of way) and Trump did respond to her with gallantry, calling to her from his podium. Nevertheless, she needed secret service protection from Trump's less chivalrous supporters. In that case, I think her appearance was a qualification since it let her get closer to the story she was covering -- Trump's piggishness on the campaign trail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41479788157425732742018-09-25T20:30:50.096-04:002018-09-25T20:30:50.096-04:00Somerby made it clear that he is talking about pro...Somerby made it clear that he is talking about professors who have abandoned their posts -- not former teachers or oceanographers.<br /><br />Journalism has ethics and these are debated regularly, within their field especially. Try the Columbia Journalism Review. <br /><br />I see no particular virtue in singling out the media less abusive of those ethics, in the US or Britain. I would consider the guys you mention more *independent* if they criticized everyone, not just liberals. Similarly, I wouldn't mind Somerby criticizing the liberal media if he would admit to being non-liberal himself. Claiming that he is liberal is not only a lie, but it fools others into giving greater credence to his complaints because they think they are coming from within the fold, not from opposition. Somerby has no liberal credibility. These two guys you are calling independent may not be as independent as you think.<br /><br />I think Somerby has not done a good job in a very long time now, and I've been reading him since Gore gave away the presidency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39400520521459990552018-09-25T20:11:10.993-04:002018-09-25T20:11:10.993-04:0012:10
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/09/19/hold-...12:10<br /><br />https://consortiumnews.com/2018/09/19/hold-the-front-page-the-reporters-are-missing/<br /><br />“In Britain, just one website offers consistently independent media criticism. This is the remarkable Media Lens — remarkable partly because its founders and editors as well as its only writers, David Edwards and David Cromwell, since 2001 have concentrated their gaze not on the usual suspects, the Tory press, but the paragons of reputable liberal journalism: the BBC, The Guardian, Channel 4 News.”<br /><br />“What is especially interesting about them is that neither is a journalist. David Edwards is a former teacher, David Cromwell is an oceanographer. Yet, their understanding of the morality of journalism — a term rarely used; let’s call it true objectivity — is a bracing quality of their online Media Lens dispatches.”<br /><br />Maybe this is what Somerby means by “guardians.” I think he’s done a good job in his own endeavors as a former teacher and comedian. Care to rebut?<br /><br />Leroy<br />Leroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02021120389394278239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50491983593550944212018-09-25T19:01:27.274-04:002018-09-25T19:01:27.274-04:00Darn it, I feel gypped. I really did want to read ...Darn it, I feel gypped. I really did want to read Bob's conclusions re the problem with Gödel and his theorems. Ah well.<br /><br />Sounding good so far Caesar, I'm only 7 minutes into it.<br /><br />LeroyLeroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02021120389394278239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69172279395367802712018-09-25T16:44:41.148-04:002018-09-25T16:44:41.148-04:00There is always censorship, even if it is self-cen...There is always censorship, even if it is self-censorship. I'd like to see the trolls go away. Then the Russian and other foreign spam and propaganda deleted. Then recruitment garbage from hate groups -- and yes, there is a way to identify such groups that doesn't take away our freedom. Kiddie predators and kiddie porn traders need to go away. There is already an effort to suppress this stuff going on, so it isn't as if this is anything new. It just needs to encompass the political wrongdoing that distorted the last election result, and some stuff like revenge porn, online bullying and stalking that are current gaps in monitoring internet activity. <br /><br />Pretending the internet is currently free is a joke used against those who want to stop certain abuses by claiming that freedom is being repressed. There are judicious, legitimate protections of the individual already in place that should be strengthened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20500943177143165782018-09-25T16:29:44.734-04:002018-09-25T16:29:44.734-04:00"candidate gore".
blogger is toothache ..."candidate gore".<br /><br />blogger is toothache personified.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4323884620220735542018-09-25T15:32:18.852-04:002018-09-25T15:32:18.852-04:00Here's a cello concerto. The composer was ment...Here's a cello concerto. The composer was mentally ill. The performer died of multiple slerosis.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVFn7Hvxxos<br /><br />impCaesarAvghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384806750440039982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59288907312353781672018-09-25T14:31:54.699-04:002018-09-25T14:31:54.699-04:00@2:27 so you favor the censorship approach. Good t...@2:27 so you favor the censorship approach. Good to know. Well, not really. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88802316840983658502018-09-25T14:27:53.366-04:002018-09-25T14:27:53.366-04:00Start by deleting all posts containing the word &q...Start by deleting all posts containing the word "sheeple."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41559063674511615482018-09-25T14:04:13.301-04:002018-09-25T14:04:13.301-04:00What is this business about "guardians?"...What is this business about "guardians?" Who were they in the mythical time when they supposedly existed? Whose interests did they serve? The people's? Yeah, right. <br /><br />And how would a "professor" become a "guardian?" Which professor would that be? Someone like Gödel? He was mentally ill, remember? <br /><br />I mean, Carl Sagan years ago and now Neil deGrasse Tyson have tried to be popular advocates for science. But how does a professor (of what? logic? Philosophy?) compete with the organized voices of politics to get some sort of non-ideological message of rational thinking across to the general public? If I remember correctly, Somerby doubts that man is truly the rational animal, so why would messages of rationality find any footing with the general public?<br /><br />The democratization (one might say "chaos") of the media via the internet is a fact of life and is here to stay. Who in the world can be a "guardian" of the World Wide Web? Would it involve censorship? Yes the internet is awash with junk and harmful stuff, but the notion that "guardians" or "wise men" ought to protect the sheeple from "harmful" stuff is elitist, and ultimately unworkable. Who gets to decide what is harmful, and who gets to decide who decides? Please specify a reasonable, apolitical process whereby this could be made to work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65024854583428603052018-09-25T13:47:19.260-04:002018-09-25T13:47:19.260-04:00Had Somerby ever finished his book on the 2000 ele...Had Somerby ever finished his book on the 2000 election, and gotten it published, perhaps he could've reached a larger audience than his blog ever did. After all, the press' misdeeds back then led to deaths all over the world. Somerby's book could have joined "Fools for Scandal" or "The Hunting of the President" as an important document of that era's press malfeasance. But alas, he abandoned that project, yet criticizes unnamed "professors" for not contributing more. Was it not critically important that this account reach a wider audience? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-7433895711574298732018-09-25T13:18:33.104-04:002018-09-25T13:18:33.104-04:00I have a feeling that playing semantic games to wi...I have a feeling that playing semantic games to win votes instead of bothering to have a serious policy discussion long predates 1995.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-74804652234673776892018-09-25T13:14:03.923-04:002018-09-25T13:14:03.923-04:00I think the decline can also be directly traced to...I think the decline can also be directly traced to the hiring of gossipy women on the tube. Even now it's bad -- and this absolute insistence on good looks is a major insult to women. You're not going to get the best qualified when appearance is such a major factor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79926208257878929982018-09-25T12:10:42.748-04:002018-09-25T12:10:42.748-04:00The role of professors is to generate new knowledg...The role of professors is to generate new knowledge and transmit existing knowledge to students. It is not to be gatekeepers and it is not to disentangle semantics.<br /><br />Knowledge is certainly dangerous, especially to someone trying to fool people, but that is not why professors generate new knowledge. They do it because they are curious and want to know answers to self-generated questions. It remains to other to apply that knowledge. Teaching is part of making knowledge available to others for whatever their purposes happen to be.<br /><br />Somerby has never understood this about professors. He may be confused because SOME professors do get involved in causes beyond their role as academics. But these activities (writing editorials, writing trade books, participating in demonstrations, serving in government as advisors or staff) are in no way part of their role as professors. It is something they do as people with interests beyond their work. Many, if not most, professors DO NOT do any of these additional things and it is not what they are paid to do.<br /><br />Journalists and writers translate the knowledge generated by professors into readable form by everyday people. They may do this to achieve certain goals, such as to promote points of view or weigh in on proposed issues in politics or social change. They do not generate new knowledge although they may compile and analyze and contrast views of professors who do so. Journalists and authors communicate to others, mobilize their energies and try to direct them to action. <br /><br />Somerby routinely confuses the role of activists, journalists, and professors. They are distinct and very different. Because he doesn't read his comments, he will not confront this confusion and will just go on making the same complaints for another 10 years, while professors ignore him and journalists go their own way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69578014405795850732018-09-25T12:00:28.474-04:002018-09-25T12:00:28.474-04:00The problem with the medicare discussion Somerby d...The problem with the medicare discussion Somerby describes was not one of understanding but of motives. Republicans wished to camouflage what they were proposing whereas Democrats wished to make clear the impact of the proposed changes to Medicare by calling them cuts.<br /><br />Somerby says: "No logician ever stepped forward to straighten out that semantic conceptual mess. It fell to us to unpack this nonsense in a Baltimore Sun op-ed."<br /><br />But there is no need for a logician when the disagreement is not about logic or even semantics. Either you think the cuts are a good thing or not. If not, you call them cuts. If you favor them, you call them slower growth. It is an argument about framing.<br /><br />Bringing out logicians to examine semantics isn't going to change that we have two parties who think different things are a good idea. You have to argue about why cuts are bad, why slower growth is good, not focus on the semantics, as Somerby suggests should have been done, better using logicians. Our country disagrees about what is best for people. It doesn't care about the semantics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com