On November 7, 2009, the US House of Representatives passed HR3961, its version of comprehensive health care reform. The late Saturday night vote came after an all day debate which played out for the American people on C-Span. For C-Span this was like the first game of the World Series. The very next morning on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'The Press Always Gets it Wrong'
Reliable Snark
November 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, US House, US Senate, politics
How to Beat the Death Panels
August 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, US House, US Senate
Dog days, mid August. Congress is out, health care reform is a hot topic. This is a great time to scare seniors with talk of death panels and euthanasia. These imaginary death panels seem to be the work of Betsy McCaughey, a thinktanker at the right-leaning Hudson Institute. There is a provision in one of [...]
The Press Always Gets It Wrong – VNN&VGS
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong
For years and years, decades actually the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet ran a story that said monorail was coming to the San Fernando Valley. It was supposed to come over Cahuenga Pass from Hollywood to Van Nuys. This story ran again and again, about every two weeks, essentially unchanged from the early [...]
Does Yahoo! Hate Lesbians?
April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, corporations
OK, I admit it. My so-called guy friends give me tons of grief when I tell them that I like the Sacramento Monarchs and watch their games. “You actually watch that?”, one friend asked. “What’s wrong with the Monarchs?” “Well, they are a bunch of lesbians”, was the best he could come up with. My [...]
The Press Always Gets it Wrong – CNBC
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong
CNBC anchor Mellisa Lee interviewed two computer security experts shortly after Microsoft released Windows Vista. The thrust of the story was that Internet Explorer 7 was supposed to plug some security holes which had been plaguing Windows users. The security experts said this was not the case. During the segment it became painfully obvious that [...]
Introduction to BOINC
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It’s safe, secure, and easy: Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well yes downloading and installing the BOINC client software is simple. There is more to this than you might [...]
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