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Jacob Weisberg criticizes bias at Fox News

By Michael Becker | Published: October 19, 2009
Fox News is clearly biased, writes Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy, and reporters who value a truly fair and bal­anced press should avoid the net­work on eth­i­cal grounds. The bias is due to Rupert Murdoch, Weisberg writes. Murdoch brought to Fox News an “Australian-British-continental of politi­cized media” [...]
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In which the author summarizes the authority-based tweet debate and then finds something new to write about

By Michael Becker | Published: December 30, 2008
Well, the issue of authority-based search­ing on Twitter is here to stay, even though Loic Le Meur, the guy who started all of this by ask­ing for some sort of author­ity search fea­ture on his blog, has amended his opin­ion. He points out now that “author­ity” was a poor word choice that resulted from the [...]
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Opportunity costs

By Michael Becker | Published: December 2, 2008
A new arti­cle on CNN today sheds light on a phe­nom­e­non that’s been around for a few years now: TiVo Guilt. People pro­gram their DVRs to record entire sea­sons of tele­vi­sion shows or shows they they believe they should watch, like Sunday morn­ing news pro­grams. Eventually, they wind up with a DVR full of unwatched [...]
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Link magic

By Michael Becker | Published: October 22, 2008
I once ques­tioned the value of links. I didn’t think they were as valu­able as they once were, for some rea­son that I can’t remem­ber now. But my expe­ri­ence with links today has shown me how truly won­der­ful they can be. I wrote a small blog post about a new story that caught my eye — [...]
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