Tag: Media

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| November 10, 2016

the problem with experts

Alastair Roberts writes, Trump’s argument against vaccines works because people no longer trust the authorities —...

| July 16, 2015

readerly triage

In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters says that media are “devices of information”...

| July 15, 2009

Then, Voyager

Voyager (which I mentioned in a previous post) was one of the coolest companies around in the Nineties; I was a devoted...

| July 1, 2009

and yet more hatred

My friend David Michael of Wunderkammer fame points out a post by Will Leitch that, well, makes my previous post...

| June 19, 2009

don't forget magazines

Following up on Farhad Manjoo’s love letter to newspapers: Here is Michael Hirschorn’s mash note to The...

| April 28, 2009

just a moment in time

Bill James, so-called "guru of baseball statistics" — he hates that moniker — and general Really...

| April 20, 2009

zooming

I really love Scott McCloud's seminal guide Understanding Comics, but in general I'm not a big fan of...