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...pointed out before in an editorial response, the difference between Wikipedia errors and errors in the mainstream press is their relative ease in correction. As Bruce Schneider said, the interesting thing about systems isn’t how they perform when they’re working, but how they perform when they fail. When newspapers fail, they perform very badly. When Wikipedia fails, it fails pretty well...
...hear all about Rosa Parks when we learn about black history. I’ll even give you Harriet Tubman—enough of us learned about her in elementary school that I can concede that she too offers a valid example of the presence of black women in mainstream black history. But Parks and Tubman are merely exceptions to the rule. Apart from these two, can anyone honestly say that we hear about black women who have contributed in one way or another to the history of black people in America? Just to drive home the seriousness...
...held a protest on the main quadrangle of the University of Illinois. In an editorial accompanying the cartoons, Gorton acknowledged that the cartoons were “bigoted and insensitive to the Islamic faith,” but stood by their publication. “I addressed something that mainstream media was afraid to address,” Gorton said. “But I firmly believe in covering sensitive material.” Chairman of The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago Abdul Malik Mujahid, which represents 55 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims, called the cartoons offensive...
...says she is more convinced than ever that instability in the Middle East will only worsen if politics remain polarized between authoritarian governments and violent extremists, and she is determined to use her own bully pulpit to exhort the region's governments to make a space for non-violent mainstream opposition parties and candidates...
WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: Why stop now? Witherspoon has won just about every acting award on offer this time of the year, and her vehicle is, at least, a mainstream studio film, and those are in very short supply on the Academy's list of nominees. Nobody is saying the word lock yet, but she is the front runner...