Word: hysterias
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...competitor called Sploid. The mission of the site, launched last week by GAWKER publisher Nick Denton, includes "sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right." STANDARD DEVIANCE lauded Sploid for having "the same sort of screaming ridiculous headlines as [Drudge] but without the right-wing hysteria." UNCORRELATED noted a hurdle in terms of scoops for an upstart with no G.O.P. ties: "Being out of power means being out of the loop...
Friday, April 8. Rubikon, Mass Hysteria, Muck and the Mires, Aberdeen City. 18+. 8:30 p.m. The Middle East, 472 Mass. Ave, Cambridge. $9. Tickets available at the Middle East Box Office or through Ticketmaster...
...never would have dreamed then that, fifty years later, the anti-intellectuals would be within Harvard itself, in our midst. The university which at the very height of the Cold War protected professors, who allegedly had communist ties years before, from a hysteria led by the angriest and most powerful voices in Washington seems now bent on driving from office, as might some mob out of control, its own leader. It seems like good sport, but with deadly consequences for Harvard and liberal universities everywhere. Who would want to succeed University President Lawrence H. Summers, or indeed even teach...
...chair, Michael Powell. To emboldened decency monitors, this is a chance to tame an out-of-control pop culture in which drunk Real World housemates have three-ways in hot tubs and shock jocks broadcast live sex acts on air. To broadcasters--and many viewers--it's the censorial hysteria that's out of control, as when Fox, in a rerun of Family Guy, chose to remove the bare bottom of the character Stewie, who is 1) a baby and 2) a cartoon. From Washington to Hollywood to your living room, the air war is in full effect...
...inquiring reader of 1982 the comparative calm of the Lindbergh Case last week was important. The scum of early reportorial confusion--result of keen newspaper competition and official impatience with the Press--had begun to be skimmed off the story. Facts hitherto obscured by haste and hysteria were clear. Also, it began to seem as though trails to the solution were converging...