Article: Speech Czar - NPR and Maher don t care about your right to speak freely; it s all about audience rights. An audience is not a right: it s a property, like NPR s audience, where NPR gets to say what their audience has the right to hear. What NPR s audience hears is optimized to gather and retain maximum attention. Journalism is going off life-support, and not in a good way.
Article: Iran tipped off 45 who told Putin, wait what? - All commentary on the the carpet-bombing of the Gaza Strip makes a point of condemning the recent Hamas incursion as a War Crime. But this falls a bit short of today s reality. In this age of total surveillance (the prevailing economic logic now), war is a crime at which we can no longer feign surprise.
Article: Dismismal-info Age - And as long as this goes on, or the next big terror, or the one after that, we are feeding ourselves to a machine we made, to make us safe from the machine we made.
Article: Dismismal-info Age - And as long as this goes on, or the next big terror, or the one after that, we are feeding ourselves to a machine we made, to make us safe from the machine we made.