Climategate and the Life-Cycle of Nontroversy
Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the "climategate" nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming.
Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case, a general unfamiliarity with the language of scientific banter allows the "climategate" nontroversy to overwhelm the consensus on global warming.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
According to Politico, a "debate" has been "sparked" over the new White House pool rotation. This debate is raging, I'm sure, among the handful of people who are deeply invested in White House pool reporting.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
Much has already been said about Politico editor John F. Harris's recent idiotic "7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told" article. Matt Yglesias mak...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
Rupert Murdoch brought a strong message for members of Congress: Don't even think about bailing out journalism with taxpayer money! And then, Murdoch delivered a whole bunch of other, decidedly mixed messages!
Dan Siegel | Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact
Rather than dwelling on the shortcomings of our athletic heroes fed by the "build them up, tear them down" media culture, perhaps we should celebrate those stars who can inspire our children to also give of themselves to others.
Jason Salzman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
There's been the invidious thread in public discourse recently that, somehow, kid-glove treatment by liberals of minorities has literally led to murder and violence against whites.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
I'd describe Politico's brand of journalism as banality, added to Scientology, multiplied by the spasmodic frenzy of a tween who hasn't learned to displace their unfulfilled erotic needs onto emo vampires.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
Here's some advice: skip Newsweek's next issue. Read this instead. It's about Afghanistan and Tora Bora, one of the biggest mistakes of the Bush-Cheney era, which Meacham ignores in cherry picking his case for Cheney.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
While I was enjoying life outside the Beltway for Thanksgiving, the entire world was captivated by Tiger Woods, a pair of reality-show fameball wannabes and a Jon Meacham column touting Dick Cheney as the GOP nominee for 2012.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
David Broder is a Washington Post columnist who's often credited with being the "Dean Of The Washington Press Corps," which sound super fancy and impo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
Daily Show segments did err, in my opinion, in making too many jokes about the danger that Jason Jones was not in during a time when many of the Iranians he met in Iran ended up in such real, deadly danger.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
Does anyone actually expect SNL to get its facts straight? Well, yes! Very recently, the show ran another sketch that featured Armisen as Obama. This actually led to CNN factchecking the show.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
Over course of the next year, I will be traveling through Latin America, reporting on the important and innovative work of world-changers at the grassroots
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard makes note of the curious way that news organizations choose to identify White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whose v...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
One of the things that's obviously under-appreciated about right-wing radio and television is the way hosts wield this awesome variety of artful metap...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
On the matter of Sarah Palin's Newsweekcover, the Washington City Paper's Amanda Hess has basically won the entire discussion.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
As facts continue to emerge about alleged Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan, reasonable people should be able to agree that serious questions need to be as...
Janet Turley | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
It's no surprise that Going Rogue has spun such a widespread reaction. Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure that rarely makes anyone indifferent to her....
Robert Guttman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
Enough already on Palin and her new book! The national media is creating a best seller for the former GOP vice-presidential candidate by its harsh criticisms of her.
Joe Vogel | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment
I like you, Adam, I really do. That is why I freely offer these pearls of wisdom on how to celebrate, not dilute, the purity of your sexual identity.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
I don't really see much point to newspapers running dueling reviews of a single book -- it's sort of feckless, isn't it? Well, shucks! if you didn't ...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
The Tribune columnist -- the author of an "unflattering assessment of Bulls center Joakim Noah" -- eats his own words. Maybe Rick Reilly should consider what will wash down his predictions about the Broncos!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
Here's a reminder of how now-resigned-from-CNN Lou Dobbs used to bellow on and on about his various persecution complexes, and blustered that "It's just killing the left... that they can't force CNN to fire me."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
It goes without saying that when the available facts accrue and weigh so heavily against a defendant, like the alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, o...
Matt Osborne | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green