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...this? Is the news dying, or entering a Golden Age? Are people uninterested in news, or just getting it in less conventional places? And what sort of news are they getting? Is it what they need to cope in a complex world, or just a lot of blather between the ads? These are the questions that every news organization must face as it tries to compete in the era of information overload...
...Socialist and Libertarian, is something that should not have been overlooked in planning HYPE, which claimed to be a non-partisan rally. The partisanship which was evident by negligible anyhow. Politics is about strong opinions, and it is played out through parties. To ignore this reality and supply trite blather about voting obligations--rather than strong campaign endorsements and policy contestations--will not encourage anyone to vote...
...enrolled here. Most noxious of all was Mansfield's offhand insinuation that blacks might have genetic intellectual deficiencies. Like most of Mansfield's statements about race, his recent essay was so ridiculous that it reeked of racism. The staff should have pointed out that Mansfield's ignorance and bigoted blather caused this latest controversy in the first place...
...conversation with his colleagues, his specialty being what my daughters used to call the harsh snap. Around the time of the Iowa caucuses, I don't think I was the only consumer of campaign coverage who longed for the capacity to trade a few hundred hours of pundit blather for 30 seconds of what Bob Dole was saying about Steve Forbes in private...
Take Forbes' make-believe on the deficit. Forbes' tax cuts would blow an estimated $140 billion hole in the budget; the spending cuts that he says would offset the cuts are vague blather. He wouldn't cut defense. He says he would 'wipe out' corporate welfare but offers no specifics, saying between campaign stops only that 'a lot can be done with agriculture subsidies." Forbes says he'll "strip" the departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development of "all but essential functions." Sounds tough. But it's a knock-off of the G.O.P.'s box-shuffling plan...