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Re-Activist Judges Make Laws, Too
Re-Activist Judges Make Laws, Too
08/15/2004 05:16 PMDahlia Lithwick (NY Times): A
ctivist, Schmactivist. Re-activist judges are the ones trying
to roll back time to the 19th century. Re-activists are the judges who
have reactivated federalism by rediscovering the "dignity" of states.
Re-activists view Lawrence v. Texas - last year's gay sodomy case - as
having all the jurisprudential force of a Post-it note. When the
United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld an Alabama
ban on the sale of sex toys last month, it did so by sidestepping the
logic animating Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence.
Ignoring Kennedy's lofty promises of sexual privacy - his assurance
that "there is a realm of personal liberty which the government may
not enter" - the 11th Circuit framed the case as a dust-up over the
constitutional right to a vibrator.
The Impact of the New Media
The Impact of the New Media
03/25/2005 11:26 PMThe Brookings Institution is webcasting a briefing entitled "The
Impact of New Media" next Tuesday, covering weblogs and old media ..
panel discussion on New
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
04/06/2005 03:07 AMWeb tool shows print media impact on
worlds forests
Web tool shows print media impact on
worlds forests
09/18/2002 08:23 AMEnvironmental News Network Sep 18 2002 4:18AM ET
Seventy-five Years Old and Still
Counting – Henry Dreyfuss Associates
Still Make an Impact On American Life
Seventy-five Years Old and Still
Counting – Henry Dreyfuss Associates
Still Make an Impact On American Life
07/12/2004 02:07 AMIn 1929 Henry Dreyfuss founded the design firm now known as Henry
Dreyfuss Associates (HDA). The firm made an impact on American life by
aiding in the establishment of the fields of industrial design and
human factors. Many of the firms' designs, such as Ma Bell's Princess
line phone are classics. The firm continues in the tradition of
excellence imbued by Henry Dreyfuss. [PRWEB Jul 12, 2004]
Cancer Vaccines Set to Make Major Impact
on Cancer Market
Cancer Vaccines Set to Make Major Impact
on Cancer Market
01/05/2005 03:27 AMThe value of the market for cancer vaccines has the potential to reach
$6 billion by 2010, according to Arrowhead Publishers, who have just
released their new report Cancer Vaccines: Measuring Market Potential.
(http://www.arrowheadpublishers.com/CancerVaccines.html) [PRWEB Jan 5,
2005]
MEDIA SPIN
AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION
MEDIA SPIN
AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION
05/25/2004 04:27 PM
 Ira Basen, a producer
with the CBC and a friend of mine from Carleton University days, is
writing a book on media spin,
a term often used interchangeably with bias. But Ira says spin is actually subtler and more
insidious. It is the shading of
meaning or interpretation of events in favour of a particular point of
view, and it is sometimes inadvertent or even unconscious.
There are several ways spin will creep into a story, including:
- The use of emotional words: The use of terms like
'terrorist', 'freedom fighter', and 'resistance movement', for
example. Did you know that Reuters' policy
is not to use
these, or similar terms charged with emotional baggage, unless they
are
used in quotation marks with the unambiguous source of the quotation
cited, even with pseudo-qualifiers like 'alleged' or 'so-called'. The
job of the media is to report the facts, and to avoid subjective
labels, even if they may be substantiated in the reporter's, or most
people's, minds. In some cased, this spin technique can be used in
reverse: the term 'abuse' instead of 'torture', or the use of
'casualties' or the infamous 'collateral damage' instead of 'dead
civilians'.
- Orwellian misuse of words: The Bush Administration is
notorious for this, using words like patriot, freedom, and peace
to mean nearly the exact opposite, and attempting to entrench public
and media misuse by naming programs and laws with Orwellian terms
(Patriot Act, Operation Iraqi Freedom). Improper personification and
similar techniques (e.g. using the name of a country or the name of
its
people instead of 'the government of', to confuse government policy or
actions with popular opinion: "Iran Building up Nuclear Arsenal",
"Syrians Refuse to Stop Funding Terrorists") can accomplish the same
end more subtly.
- Self-censorship -- What is not reported:
The choice of what not to report at all, and when (before or after the
public is focused on it) and where (front page or at the end of the
continuation of a story on page 32) to report, can have a greater
impact on viewers or listeners than what is actually, factually
reported. Recently, for example, the media had an abrupt about-face,
ceasing their self-censorship of showing flag-draped coffins and even
reading the names of American dead (oops, casualties)
in the Iraqi war, because they realized to what extent that
self-censorship impacts public perception. Likewise, the media have a
natural propensity to not
report stories that they believe are complex (e.g. the violations of the Geneva Conventions
by the US Government), long-term
(e.g. environmental deterioration and biodegradation), distant (e.g. Third World genocides
and wars unless US troops are involved) or intractable (e.g.
famine in East Africa and North Korea), because they are hard,
expensive stories to do well, and hence do not offer the ROI of, say,
a
celebrity scandal or shaggy dog story. This is not especially
political
-- it's the same phenomenon that has led to prime time TV being filled
with cheap 'Reality TV' programs instead of serious drama or
intelligent comedy. It's about lack of money, more than lack of
integrity.
- The way something is reported:
Being in a commercial business, the media have a natural temptation to
sensationalize, to create extraordinary buzz, because it's good for
ratings or circulation. If CBS had chosen merely to describe what it
had learned about Abu Ghraib, and not to show the photos, the impact
of
the story would have been much different, and it is not surprising
that
the Bush Regime (oops. some senior
policy-makers in the US Government)
have since trotted out videos and photos of Saddam Hussein's brutality
and murder to counter the emotional impact of the Abu Ghraib
photos.
- Oversimplification:
Although I have an optimistic view of most people and believe they are
capable of and interested in learning in detail about issues and
programs that affect their lives, the media have a more jaundiced view
that the public (oops, the majority
of citizens)
either can't understand, or don't care about, such detail and
subtlety.
Especially in political campaigns, there is therefore a tendency to
try
to reduce the differences between the voter's choices to an absurd
degree of simplicity. The parties and candidates exploit this by
feeding the media sound bites and negative ads that exaggerate and
oversimplify (or outright misrepresent) their opponents' positions or
actions. So whether the public wants to be or not, the media are
complicit in the 'dumbing down' of issues to a dangerously
over-simplified degree. The only question, and one which I understand
Ira's book is going to address, is whether the media are pandering to
citizens' inability to understand complex and subtle issues, or to
politicians' desire to oversimplify these issues for political
advantage. Or perhaps both.
There are other 'spin' techniques, of course, such as Failure to present
opposing interpretations of the facts, Giving credibility to unidentified
and unsubstantiated sources ("One senior former official said",
"Saddam was believed to have...") and Assuming facts without evidence
(e.g. most of what we read about WMD), but I think these are the most
common and most insidious. Let's take a look at a case study. Before
you read the following article, please note -- this is important -- It
is slamming the media's spin in handling the Clinton Administration for its bombing of Sudan,
before 9/11 and before the recent
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, please read this
article. It's long, and a bit strident, but worth the read.
Finished? Did you shudder a bit when you read, in an article written about Clinton in 1998,
"Is bin Laden's new assignment perhaps to be a bogey-man of
convenience
whom the U.S. government can link to any government it wishes to
bomb?"
With the benefit of hindsight (and the opposing political party in
power) it's easy to see the incredible spin in the venerable Times'
reporting in 1998, and to see that to some extent this ubiquitous
media
spin contributed to the overwhelming bipartisan approval for the US to
launch a war against Afghanistan, against precisely the people we had
supported and financed earlier in their
war against the USSR, the enemy of that earlier day. I confess that I
had few misgivings about war with the Taliban, despite the fact that I
am a life-long pacifist. Why? Because nowhere (except the discredited
extreme conspiracy-theorist papers) were we presented with spin-free
reporting (or opposite-spin reporting, if you think spin-free
reporting
is an oxymoron) on what exactly was, and had been, going on in
Afghanistan, and why things were the way they were. There is almost always a rational
explanation for things that appear absurd or unreasonable in the
absence of the facts. We
are just now beginning to realize the degree to which our money and
support made the Taliban both popular and tyrannical in Afghanistan.
And still we are missing most
of the facts about that country, and about Iraq. The facts, alas, are
not the same as the news. The media's job is to report the news, not
to
dig up the facts. Investigative journalism is what we desperately
need,
but there is no money in that, surprisingly little demand for it, and
precious few willing to take the enormous risks to pursue that
thankless career.
It's easy to take sides, especially when the current US administration
is so unapologetically propagandizing (i.e. deliberately and
systematically spinning) every issue it deals with, to a degree not
seen since the Vietnam War. But the reality is that the media, taken
as
a whole, are neither liberal nor conservative. The political position
of each media outlet on any given issue is somewhere in the middle of
(a) the position of its editorial board, (b) its perception of the
position of the 'average' reader/viewer, (c) the position of the
reporters covering the story, and (d) the position of the people
presenting the story (usually the administration of the day). That
means that to right-wingnuts like this guy,
the media will always appear liberal, and to unabashed left-wingers
like me, the media will always appear conservative. But the truth is,
at least in their story
reporting (editorials and schlock talk radio aside), there is no vast
media 'conspiracy' at either end of the political spectrum. Most
people
in the media are doing their best to do their jobs in a way that
balances the views of the above four 'interest groups'. They are
vulnerable to the spin techniques listed above -- if you've ever
interviewed someone, you'll appreciate that unless you're really
treated abusively there's an earnest desire to represent what they had
to say clearly, favourably, but above all objectively.
To the extent they get it right, they deserve a lot of credit -- it's
a
difficult, thankless, often dangerous and tedious job. To the extent
they, and their editors, let spin creep into their stories, we
have a duty as readers and viewers and citizens to recognize it, and
discount it accordingly. The fact that so many of us are using the
Internet to learn more, to check out other interpretations of events,
and to get behind the stories so we can understand and talk about the
issues facing our world more knowledgeably, we are contributing to the
democratic process, and helping to reduce spin. At the same time,
there
is a tendency in the blogosphere to frequent sites authored and
populated by like minds, and some of the hysterics of extremists of
every stripe are quite frightening. My blog wears its left-spinning,
overtly editorial stripes quite proudly and unapologetically, but I
make a point of reading a few of the more moderate conservative blogs
on each new issue, and occasionally some of the bizarre extreme
leftist
blogs -- because the danger of exposing yourself to a lot of spin is
that, if you're not careful, you can find yourself permanently
off-balance.
And as we all know, "fair and balanced" is another term that's subject
to a lot of spin. George O. must be 'spinning' in his grave.
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Media Center PCs Make Headway
Media Center PCs Make Headway
05/11/2004 06:34 AMMake-a-Flake - A snowflake maker by
Lookandfeel new media
Make-a-Flake - A snowflake maker by
Lookandfeel new media
12/07/2003 03:47 AMEven the ugliest cuts make beautiful flakes .. Virtual Paper Snowflake
Construction Kit .. Make your own cut-out snowflakes .. Be a kid -
make a snowflake .. (new window)
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Lookandfeel new media"
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Lookandfeel new media"
12/07/2003 03:04 PMSergey, Larrry Make Top 20 Most
Influential Media Personalities in UK
Sergey, Larrry Make Top 20 Most
Influential Media Personalities in UK
07/13/2004 06:45 AM"Google co-founders Page and Brin have been jointly ranked 20th in
this list--an authoritative guide to the most powerful players in
Britain's media industry that is published each year by The Guardian
newspaper. Gates didn't even make the list..."
Sergey/Larry Make Top 20 Most
Influential Media Personalities in UK
Sergey/Larry Make Top 20 Most
Influential Media Personalities in UK
07/13/2004 06:38 PM"Google co-founders Page and Brin have been jointly ranked 20th in
this list--an authoritative guide to the most powerful players in
Britain's media industry that is published each year by The Guardian
newspaper. Gates didn't even make the list..."
"it is wildly irresponsible of the media
not to have considered the possibility
that the people at that wedding party
took advantage of coincidental US
shelling and slaughtered themselves to
make us look bad, as such wily brown
persons will do because..."
"it is wildly irresponsible of the media
not to have considered the possibility
that the people at that wedding party
took advantage of coincidental US
shelling and slaughtered themselves to
make us look bad, as such wily brown
persons will do because..."
05/26/2004 07:51 PMBusiness Journals
Business Journals
01/26/2004 12:41 PMBusiness Journals
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/businesslibrary/journals/journals.htmAn excellent resource of business journals is available from
the
Business
Library of the University of Florida.
"activist"
"activist"
04/24/2004 03:25 AMOnline journals become popular
Online journals become popular
06/14/2004 05:25 AMPresstelegram.com - Mon Jun 14, 08:52 am GMT
Information on African Journals
Information on African Journals
07/07/2004 09:32 PMAfrican Journals Online has information about journals available from
all over Africa, as well as information on the contents of those
journals. It's available at http://www.ajol.info/ . The front page...
Jedi Journals Update
Jedi Journals Update
04/09/2004 04:02 PMToday's
Jedi Journals
update encompasses Eighties entertainment,
The Empire Strikes
Back! Issues #39-44 of the monthly
Star Wars comic series,
adapts the 1980 feature film with story and art by Archie Goodwin and
Al Williamson. Discover the original "Infinities", with the alternate
Yoda! Plus a surprise guest star arrives in Cloud City!
Jedi Journals On Vacation
Jedi Journals On Vacation
09/08/2004 11:09 AMJovial Jay takes a break from the normal run of Jedi Journals updates
this week, but will return next week with the conclusion to
Tales of the Jedi with issues #3-5. In the meantime, why
not check out the recent updates or see what is due in Comic Stores
today by clicking through to
Jedi Journals and
scrolling down. See you in Seven!
Emerald's Journals of the Week
Emerald's Journals of the Week
10/28/2003 11:08 PMEmerald's Journals of the Week http://miranda.emeraldinsight.com/vl=400489/cl=150/nw=1/rpsv/jotw/
Emerald's Journals of the
Week offer provides free full text access to the current and past
volumes of two different journals every week. It's the best way to
find out more about individual journals and experience the many
benefits of online access - a key part of Emerald's comprehensive
subscription package. Click
here for a list of forthcoming journals featured
as Journals of the Week.
African Journals Online
African Journals Online
07/16/2004 07:07 AMAfrican Journals Online http://www.ajol.info/ African Journals Online is a portal for "African-published
journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and
social sciences." Abstracts are provided for the journals, and many
also contain links to sites with fulltext articles. Reprints can be
ordered for those articles that are not available in fulltext online.
This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Open-Access Journals Flourish
Open-Access Journals Flourish
04/11/2005 06:28 AMAs more academic and medical publishers charge authors instead of
advertisers, critics fear conflicts of interest will tarnish research.
By Randy Dotinga.
Australian Journals OnLine (AJOL)
Australian Journals OnLine (AJOL)
05/04/2004 06:37 AMAustralian Journals OnLine (AJOL)http://www.nla.gov.au/ajol/AJOL is the National Library of Australia's database of
Australian electronic journals, newspapers, magazines, webzines,
newsletters and e-mail fanzines. The database provides details and
links to over 2000 titles that include local and overseas works with
Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis as well as entries for
sites which advertise or promote Australian journals. The National
Library also maintains a separate listing of
Australian Newspapers
Online. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to
Research Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Economics of Scientific and Biomedical
Journals
Economics of Scientific and Biomedical
Journals
03/17/2005 03:26 AMEconomics of Scientific and Biomedical Journals by Haekyung
Jeon–Slaughter, Andrew A. Herkovic, and Michael A.
Kellerhtt
p://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/index.htmlAbstract:The emergence of e–journals
brought a great change in scholarly communication and in the behavior
of scholars. However, the importance of scholars’ behavior in the
pricing of scientific journal has been largely ignored in the recent
debate between libraries and publishers over site license practices
and pricing schemes. Stanford’s survey results indicate that sharply
increasing costs are the main reason for individual subscription
cancellation, driving users to rely on library or other institutional
subscriptions. Libraries continue to be a vital information provider
in the electronic era and their bargaining power in the market and the
importance of roles in scholarly communication will be increased by
branding and a strong relationship with users. Publishers’ strategy
for thriving in the electronic era is not to lose personal
subscribers. Cooperation among the three sectors — scholars,
libraries, and publishers — promises optimal results for each sector
more than ever.
Lessons learned from online journals
Lessons learned from online journals
10/29/2003 12:10 AMThere are lessons to be learned from the first round of online
journals, hammered out over time in the private spheres of close
friends and associates. Many from that time have moved on to other
things, but their legacy remains at the core of blogging's
foundations. Write for an audience of friends. When you have an
audience of a million people, there's no way to anticipate what the
best viewpoint to reach them all is; remember that your writing is an
expression of your viewpoint, and express it as such. Express your
viewpoint as if you were talking to a group of friends: clear, to the
point, and perhaps a dash of humor. Aesthetics speak a thousand words.
The appearance of a site frames the content contained within, setting
the tone for the reader. If your color schemes makes it...
Web Journals Get Noticed on the Campaign
Trail
Web Journals Get Noticed on the Campaign
Trail
01/23/2004 02:22 PMWeb journals, known as blogs, may not be doing much to sway undecided
voters, but analysts say they strongly impact the media, campaign
consultants and activists.
Australian Journals, We Love You, Amen!
Australian Journals, We Love You, Amen!
04/27/2004 08:12 PMThe National Library of Australia offers Australian Journals OnLine, a
database of over 2,000 magazines, journals, etc. with primarily
Australian content. You can access it at http://www.nla.gov.au/ajol/ .
The database...
Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
09/20/2004 02:51 PMfully open and available free peer-reviewed journals .. directory for
open access journals .. open journal movement .. Journals Full Text ..
DOAJ
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eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic
Journals
eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic
Journals
06/19/2004 05:50 AMeFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journalshttp://ww
w.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htmeFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals is a categorized
registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web
feeds. Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds are categorized in a
separate category. eFeeds(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry
McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science
and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA
50011. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
More authors keeping on-line journals
More authors keeping on-line journals
09/23/2004 05:42 PMglobetechnology.com Sep 23 2004 9:51PM GMT
More Authors Keeping Online Journals
More Authors Keeping Online Journals
09/23/2004 04:03 PMAP via Los Angeles Times Sep 23 2004 7:46PM GMT
"squirrel-rights activist?"
"squirrel-rights activist?"
06/18/2004 11:21 AMNotes from an activist: Welcome to Miami
Notes from an activist: Welcome to Miami
11/19/2003 03:31 PMSalon Nov 19 2003 3:12PM ET
"More on peace activist subpoenas"
"More on peace activist subpoenas"
02/10/2004 02:52 AMBandits Above, Behemoths Below: Jedi
Journals Update
Bandits Above, Behemoths Below: Jedi
Journals Update
07/08/2004 08:41 AMThis weeks update to the
Jedi Journals
completes the first post-movie-adaptation storyline. With six other
spacers, Han and Chewie are headed for a Showdown on a Wasteland
World!
Episode 1 Eggheads: Jedi Journals
Update!
Episode 1 Eggheads: Jedi Journals
Update!
05/19/2004 07:31 AMThis weeks update to the
Jedi Journals
features Ki-Adi-Mundi in a pre-Episode One appearance. The first six
issues of the new Dark Horse monthly
Star Wars comic,
appearing a scant few months before the film, gave the collective
community its first glimpse at the design of
The Phantom
Menace. You won't find a better collection of coneheads, but not
from France!
Jedi Journals Update: I Was A Teenage
Marvel
Jedi Journals Update: I Was A Teenage
Marvel
12/29/2004 12:18 PMJedi Journals
features two one-shot stories from the second year of the Marvel run.
First up is "The Hunter!" featuring everyone's favorite droid-hating
cyborg, Valance. Also look for appearances by Jaxxon, Amaiza and
Don-Wan Kihotay. Next relive a harrowing adventure from Luke's time on
Tatooine called "The Crucible!" featuring all his boyhood chums
including Biggs, Camie and Windy.
Internet Library of Early Journals -
ILEJ
Internet Library of Early Journals -
ILEJ
10/29/2003 11:22 AMInternet Library of Early Journals - ILEJhttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ile
j/ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a
joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and
Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the
eLib (Electronic Libraries)
Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th
century journals, and make these images available on the Internet,
together with their associated bibliographic data. The project
finished in 1999, and no additional material will be added. See
Final Report for
conclusions of the project.
Scientists launch open-access journals
Scientists launch open-access journals
03/13/2003 10:16 AM A group of scientists
launched an open-access
scientific journals project: the Public Library of
Science . Supported by a $9 million grant from the Moore Foundation , the two journals,
Public Library of Science Biology and Public Library of
Science Medicine , are planned to appear in 2003.
The thinking behind the project is the argument that scientific
research is a public good, and should be accessible to all , in the interests of education and informed
public debate. The project participates in a larger movement of open-access scholarly journals , and:
is an outgrowth of several years of friction between scientists and
the journals over who should control access to scientific literature
in the electronic age. For most scientists, who typically assign their
copyright to the journals for no compensation, the main goal is to
distribute their work as widely as possible.
(thanks to Becky!)
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