I’ve had a number of websites scattered across two webhosts for about a year now.
I’ve decided to consolidate on to one webhost.
If you’re seeing this post, you’re seeing this blog at its new home.
Let me know if anything is obviously broken.
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Many journos who use Twitter place the disclaimer “RTs don’t constitute endorsement” (or some variant) in their bio, presumably to keep up the illusion of not having an opinion on politics, which they can therefore cover objectively.
It’s really kind of a silly claim, but that’s the modern j-school mindset at work here in the U.S.
Still, what’s fun about Twitter is that those journos who do a fair amount of RTing — say, the Houston Chronicle‘s leftwing bureau
Two City of Houston employees came by the house today.
Callie informs that they wanted “to inspect the windows and sign off on the permit.”
Ummm, what?
After further inquiry, Callie ascertained that they were talking about the replacement windows we had installed shortly after moving in a little over THREE YEARS AGO.
Undaunted, they told her well, yes, there’s a bit of an, umm, backlog, but they could just sign off on the permit now.
They also were not
In Houston this week, a fun little media story emerged about a female blogger for a local sports radio station* who questioned whether an OKC Thunder cheerleader was perhaps a little “too chunky.” The original post (and others by this blogger, along with Anna-Megan Raley’s bio) were deleted from the radio station site, but a copy is in the google cache. The story was picked up by quite a few outlets; here’s the chron.com version.
It’s mystifying to
I don’t bother much with posts about media bias these days for any number of reasons (it’s a little like shooting fish in a barrel, it eats up a lot of time, there’s less need for it now that academics have taken up the matter more rigorously), but every once in a while it’s still instructive to take apart a story that clearly illustrates the phenomena. So without further adieu, here’s a graf-by-graf examination of a story that appeared