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¡Obámanos! : Six Questions for Hendrik Hertzberg—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)

  • The president is the head of just one of three separately elected federal “governments,” all of which must agree for anything fundamental to happen, especially on the domestic side. That’s no big problem if your agenda is limited to cutting taxes, starting wars, kowtowing to society’s winners, and punishing society’s losers. But if you want to do something large and positive and disturbing to the status quo, the obstacles are huge.
24 Nov 09

How the American Press Mistook China for a Fish—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)

  • It’s not just China, he adds; “There’s a growing reflex of instant punditry and reflexive reaction that works counter to more meaningful analysis. We’re in a state where we’re very often privileging the gut or the knee, as in knee-jerk, rather than thinking more meaningfully about things.”
  • the same is true for the Clinton visit to Pakistan, which drew heavy coverage on points that were consistently misunderstood by those who wrote about them.
21 Nov 09

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: On the Pleasures of Not Belonging, or Notes on Interstitial Art (Part One)



  • What I love about the folks who have embraced interstitial arts is that some of them do comics, some publish romances, some compose music, some write fantasy or science fiction, but all of them are perfectly comfortable thinking about things other than their areas of specialization.

  • They started to write the stories they wanted to be able to read, only to be told by their publisher that their book would sell much more quickly if it could be positioned into this publishing category for this intended audience and to achieve that you just need to cut back on this, expand on that, and add a little more of this other thing.
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20 Nov 09

How Limousine Liberals, Oligarch Farmers and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled

  • Where will the state get that water? Well, it could take it away from small farmers, rural communities and anyone else who is poor and politically unconnected.


  • Just look at these profit margins: these days, Central Valley farmers buy water from California’s Department of Water Resources for a heavily-subsidized $100 to $500 per acre-foot, while city slickers in San Francisco pay around $8,500 for the same water.

18 Nov 09

"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"

  • The goal is not to be a passive consumer of information or to simply tune in when the time is right, but rather to live in a world where information is everywhere.
  • Being in flow with information is different than Csikszentmihalyi's sense, as it's not about perfect attention, but it is about a sense of alignment, of being aligned with information.
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15 Nov 09

Guernica / Chomsky on the Couch

  • the principle that the United States may exercise force to guarantee a certain global order that will be ‘open’ to transnational corporations—that is beyond the bounds of polite discourse.”
  • Systems of power don’t have good intentions.
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James Murdoch hits out at BBC and regulators at Edinburgh TV festival | Media | The Guardian

  • The BBC Trust ... is here to strengthen the BBC for the benefit of licence fee payers, not to emasculate it on behalf of commercial interests."

Murdoch v the PM? It's what we call asymmetric warfare | Marina Hyde | Comment is free | The Guardian

  • The degree to which successive prime ministers have greased up to our foremost unelected foreign tax exile is perhaps their worst-kept dirty little secret – or rather, dirty great one.
  • The only thing governments can feel truly confident about doing without wondering whether the rug is about to be pulled is implementing policies to suit Murdoch's business agenda,
13 Nov 09

U.S. Attorney Sought Readership Information from Internet News Site—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)

  • The attempt to interfere with news collection efforts is more serious, but whenever law enforcement agencies ask about who is reading a publication, constitutional issues arise, and the very question is viewed as having a “chilling effect” on press freedom.



  • My bet would be that the prosecutors acting to issue this subpoena broke the internal Justice Department rules by not getting the attorney general’s approval—just as they clearly broke the law in issuing a gag order to a news organization. This may explain why the U.S. attorney quietly withdrew the subpoena as soon as he faced opposition.

Fort Hood Cover-Up: A Dozen Tales of Disinformation - By Mark Ames - The eXiled

  • Remember, this is the same Daily Telegraph that last month ran a fake story claiming that Iran’s leader Ahmadinejad was born a Jew—a story that was quickly debunked as a disinformation plant. The Telegraph has a history of false plants–like the 2003 article claiming they had discovered “proof” that Saddam Hussein trained up the 9/11 terrorists in Baghdad.
  • let’s not forget how the military got busted back in 2000 for planting PSYOPS agents trained in propaganda on NPR’s news staff:

Newsarama.com : Comics With A Purpose: DIARIO de OAXACA

  • Having State-side friends ask about the family’s safety in light of news reports about the strike surprised Kuper, who found the reality clashing with what was being reported.  That disparity between first-hand experience and news coverage first inspired Kuper’s journal keeping.
  • “I used to be frustrated that I couldn’t get my books into bookstores, now I can’t get them into comic shops! Go figure,”
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