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When the Lights Go Down

Trying something new, a nightly wrapup for an open thread, like what Matt Yglesias does.

  • Stuff like this is what makes The New York Times great. Seriously fantastic reporting, read it, even if it long.
  • Bailing out to fix your messaging sometimes is worse than showing your flawed message. Also, your party chair throwing you under the bus is never a good thing, even if it was Michael Steele.
  • I call shenanigans on this law. Can someone tell me how this isn’t double jeopardy?

I promise to never link to another Journey song again.

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8 responses to “When the Lights Go Down”

  1. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    The NYT still sucking, badly, after all these years:

    “CLARK HOYT PLAYS THE NUMBERS! The public editor is a big liar too, if judged by his own paper‚Äôs standards”:

    http://dailyhowler.com/dh052410.shtml

    Two (2)! clear instances of a misstated military record in 20 Years means Scandal! But only if you’re a Dem. Yep, our so-called-liberal Media strikes again!

    JMP

  2. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    No. And more on ‘journalistic integrity’ or the stories we/they love to tell to amuse ourselves & the audience here:

    A Book by By W. Joseph Campbell May 19,2010

    “Getting It Wrong: Why Many of American Journalism’s Most Cherished Stories Are Exaggerated or Apocryphal”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/w-joseph-campbell/getting-it-wrong-why-many_b_582105.html?ir=Media

    More on the now spreading Blumenthal blunders from another NYC outfit here:

    http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/blumenthal_blunders.php

    It’s like the local Emmys. Everyone’s a winner, eventually.

    JMP

  3. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    It seems to me, and I’m no lawyer, that if you do crime A, then crime M, then crime Z, no matter what Z is, you are being punished for A and M, and w/the theory behind 3Ss, you are on trial for A and M as well.

    Like does that make sense?

  4. Jen Brock Avatar
    Jen Brock

    “I call shenanigans on this law. Can someone tell me how this isn’t double jeopardy?”

    Is this a real question? Sounds like a question from one of my clients.

  5. innerredneckexposed Avatar
    innerredneckexposed

    I think a better indicator of the Times’ current sad state of journalism is this:

    http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2010

  6. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Economics for the post literate set:

    Max Keiser explains it all for You!

    http://maxkeiser.com/2010/05/20/kr44-keiser-report-markets-finance-scandal-and-the-gold-standard-with-j-s-kim/

    And Paul Krugman, (only a part timer @ the detestable Times), explains why yes, Jimmy Carter was good for you, via another great graph:

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/down-the-memory-hole/

    Things went in the crapper, oh about the early 1980’s. Wonder why?

    JMP

  7. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Economics in 2 easy lessons: Why Ga. is screwed. Now with Graphs!

    “States: U-6 Unemployment Rate vs. Mortgage Delinquency Rate”

    http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/05/states-u-6-unemployment-rate-vs.html

    And how bad is that delinquency rate? Again, Above 15%:

    http://calculatedriskimages.blogspot.com/2010/05/mba-delinquency-by-state-q1-2010.html

    JMP

  8. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    Why the NYT still sucks at journalism, Part 695, vers. 27:

    [Scroll down for the Blumenthal story they’re still mangling & manufacturing]:

    http://dailyhowler.com/dh052110.shtml

    JMP

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