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Best financial advice to date

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

The big financial institutions are dropping like attendees at a Jim Jones cocktail party. Cable news reporters are hyperventilating and tossing out absolutely worthless advice and statements worthy of an Orwell radio show. In light of all this, the Columbia Journalism Review’s “The Audit” has the best advice I’ve seen yet:
Time to take a deep [...]

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We can’t prove it’s not true, therefore it’s true

December 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

What the hell have they been teaching in journalism school? We have Dan Rather and Mary Mapes “fake but accurate” excuse for running a hit piece on a sitting president in the final months of a reelection campaign. We have The New Republic running an unverified piece on the supposed horrors of war containing events [...]

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