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New patent application: A Method and System for Creating, Storing, and Retrieving Inaccurate Information Regarding Breaking News Events Within a Multimedia Environment. Pros: It's hilarious. And every...
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Personally, I don't care who breaks a story first. It's not like I'm switching between CNN and FOX back and forth all day, waiting to see where I get to see which story first. Where I work the TV in...
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How do we better reward insight and thoughtful commentary over the quick hit-scoop? This would be as big an endeavor as trying to reduce healthcare costs by shifting the incentive structure: rewarding...
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People are referring to this as cable news' "Dewey defeats Truman" moment, while others are arguing that "breaking news is broken." And has been for many decades...
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The media get worked up about "first" and "exclusive." I don't care about either, I care more about "timely" and "accurate."
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I think you nailed it. What is the demographic that takes news on the tv seriously? I'd say most of them are over 60 and uncomfortable with the internet. Traditional news organizations are in the same...
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There are people of any age who will respond to something as if it's inviolate truth BECAUSE they heard/saw it on CNN/FOX or whatever. Not all of them are over 60 or anywhere near that. (And what have...
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A "scoop" is 19th and 20th century thinking. When print was the principle means of news dissemination, if a newspaper was first to publish a story, it would be a day before its competitors could match...
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Some media brands make their living off of informed commentary, insight, investigative reporting and analysis of the news and current events. Even if I have no use for their economic or political...
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Never happen. Insurance companies have the biggest lobby in Washington. Followed by trial lawyers. And since both of those groups benefit by defensive care that ends up killing people, it will never...
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It's like the old west. The fastest draw isn't the one who wins. The fastest draw who aimed well enough to hit the other guy is.
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Who cares who reports first? It's who reports best. There's a reason I turn to sites like Techdirt and Ars Technica for news - insight, commentary, and discussion. The trolls add the humor....
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Remember in one of the previous posts where a usual shill claimed that journalism isn't about the news? Clearly everyone else but Techdirt thinks so.
View ArticleChief Justice Roberts Wrote an Intentionally Tricky Decision.
The decision, as crafted by Chief Justice Roberts, works out to something like: "Okay this time, but don't do it again, and, please, gradually try to regularize the situation so that the controversial...
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I am not going into it here. I did on Groklaw without initially realizing how many people have a heard mentality. I will state though that CNN and Fox first opinion was correct. The left, Obama, and...
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Because of the economic dimensions associated with the PPACA (e.g., supply/demand), you may wish to consider an article examing its basic assumptions from an economic perspective.
View ArticleA Pragmatic Court
I have read Anonymous Coward #19's posts on Groklaw, and I am truly amazed by Pamela Jones' patience, even when AC #19 begins trotting out neo-Ayn-Rand literature he finds on Fox News. Her European and...
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Interesting how CNN and the anti CNN both got it wrong. But the truly interesting part is that the anti CNN was quicker to fix the error.
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Split decisions such as this are the easiest ones to take back to a body like SCOTUS as there is always the minority opinion to base that appeal on. IF the court ever consents to hear that. I'd love to...
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There's really no point in the scoop if it's only a couple minutes later. The later one will probably be more revised anyways.
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For a consider ObamaCare was declared to be a tax. Except, of course, that it was not declared to be a tax. It was declared to be what it was always presented to be: a penalty. I think where you got...
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It's not that interesting. Whether it's chocolate or vanilla, it's still ice cream. Fox & CNN are far from opposites.
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