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Only problem with that is that it's (slowly) becoming a thing for companies to issue non-embossed cards.

Not to mention I imagine most businesses don't even have them on hand. I've asked that very question before when the "system went down" at a McDonald's I patronized last year. The manager just looked at me like I was speaking another language. I could have sworn it was required by most credit card processors that their clients have them for backup, but maybe that's not actually a rule.

My subject is just mass skepticism mixed with a bad science and forecasting model coupled with some sick conspiracy to get people who live in the Northern US to stay up until the wee hours again like we all did in July 2017! This is even more bleak than last time based on their description.

I will say: Why the heck is 'upper tier of the US' and 'areas of the US' even advertised in this article? That's garbage. Upper tier is Minnesota, North and some of South Dakota, Montana and anything else directly east and west of those and certainly not anymore south than Nebraska as best. Did geography change overnight? The only thing I see is Alaska and that's never been considered 'CONUS' last time I knew. I guess when the 'US' is said, I think CONUS --- we all know Hawaii and Alaska are part of the US but outlying.

Man, whoever is writing this Aurora news lately really wants to make a story out of it.

My subject is just mass skepticism mixed with a bad science and forecasting model coupled with some sick conspiracy to get people who live in the Northern US to stay up until the wee hours again like we all did in July 2017! This is even more bleak than last time based on their description.

I will say: Why the heck is 'upper tier of the US' and 'areas of the US' even advertised in this article? That's garbage. Upper tier is Minnesota, North and some of South Dakota, Montana and anything else directly east and west of those and certainly not anymore south than Nebraska as best. Did geography change overnight? The only thing I see is Alaska and that's never been considered 'CONUS' last time I knew. I guess when the 'US' is said, I think CONUS --- we all know Hawaii and Alaska are part of the US but outlying.

Man, whoever is writing this Aurora news lately really wants to make a story out of it.

It's curious you'd mention Pollock, because some of his works look like cans of paint randomly thrown onto a canvas. Not all of them, but some certainly do.

I agree with you completely. There's a Pollock at the museum in Omaha that looks for anything like a cat puked on the canvas.

OTOH, a famous Pollock painting will draw you in, and have a sort of fundamental emotional appeal that keeps you wondering why the painting is so engaging.

Scientific American once did an analysis of some of Polluck's paintings, along with other painters who painted in the same style but which aren't as successful as Pollock.

The analysis found that Pollock's paintings have a fractal quality that other painters (in the same style) don't have, leading to the conjecture that it's this quality that makes his paintings so engaging.

There's a Picasso at the Currier Gallery of Art which I think is awful and completely pointless, yet I can stare at Guernica all day.

And finally, if you ever go to the Detroit Institute of Art you'll find Fuseli's The Nightmare, which is completely and totally ho-hum in any reproduction, including images on the internet, but which is captivating when seen in person.

(And I was astonished when I saw my first real Rembrandt portrait (the one at Omaha). These are also ho-hum from a distance and through the internet, but to see one in person... wow!

Many people don't get why art is so pleasing. I suspect it's because they only have 2nd hand exposure, through reproductions, the internet, TV, and so on.

So in summary, I agree with you completely, but note that "art is where you find it". Not every work of every master is a masterpiece, and if you dig in the dirt you'll eventually uncover a few treasures.

To those modding it a troll...give me a break. No straight white male has suffered more bigotry and intolerance than "any homosexual". Worst case this twit lost out on a scholarship or a job due to some sort of affirmative action, and thinks that injustice somehow not only equals but outweighs what gays face routinely.

As for the crowbar incident I mentioned.

http://www.omaha.com/news/man-...

That's not exactly an isolated event.

If this guy has really been discriminated on that scale, its an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. Otherwise I stand by it. Brain diarrhea and all.

OK, well the other major problems with the request for funding is the total amount funded is $44,000. That is not enough money, after the university gets its cut, to do anything. OK, second problem, they have to complete the study in 1 year. Omaha.com article.

So, it's really a joke all the way around. Warming is cyclical, and prove it without spending enough money to even pay a postdoc for a year.

Actually, Salon is quoting this article
http://www.omaha.com/article/20131024/NEWS/131029338/1707#state-climate-change-study-may-go-begging-for-scientists

No one has RTFA it seems ... (I know, I know, /.)

The scientists are being asked to study the effects of climate change on Nebraska, not climate change itself.

in that context restricting them to studying the effects of cyclical changes only is stupid, and the reason for their protest.

See also the longer article here http://www.omaha.com/article/20131024/NEWS/131029338/1707#state-climate-change-study-may-go-begging-for-scientists

"Woman shoots intruders" makes a good story, "woman shot by intruders" is just a regular day in the USA.

Nevertheless, here's a couple of articles:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/131161/
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/noble-la/TR15JA061K07R7VC6
http://omaha.com/article/20120912/NEWS/120919892

Continuing is pointless without some statistics. The report you link to has some, and prints in bold "The data set contains only 11 stories out of 4,699 where a criminal took a gun away from a defender; the reverse was reported more than 20 times more often.", but in the text notes that this is because the dataset didn't collect data where the defender was injured.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-kellermann.htm shows a different side.

Frankly, I don't care to debate this -- I'm happy with the situation in my country, presumably you like your country's approach, and arguing over the Web is rarely useful.

Yes, and differences between groups actually are that big, as you can tell from different passing rates in various tests (see e.g., here). All people are trying to do with these adjustments is to make up for those observed big differences. One can argue about whether that is the right policy, but your arguments about "statistical significance" and "tails" miss the point.

Has your state trooper brother ever let a speeding off duty cop go because of "professional courtesy"? If so, then he's a corrupt cop. If they do it for speeding tickets, why not assault?

I happen to be an white male adult, so I get by without a lot of hassle from police. But around here, police auditors get fired for doing their job. And police officers flagrantly break the law without even getting charged for it. And internal review boards are held in secret where no one can witness the whitewashing.

Forgive me if that doesn't inspire confidence in our ability to hold police accountable for their crimes.

Has your state trooper brother ever let a speeding off duty cop go because of "professional courtesy"? If so, then he's a corrupt cop. If they do it for speeding tickets, why not assault?

I happen to be an white male adult, so I get by without a lot of hassle from police. But around here, police auditors get fired for doing their job. And police officers flagrantly break the law without even getting charged for it. And internal review boards are held in secret where no one can witness the whitewashing.

Forgive me if that doesn't inspire confidence in our ability to hold police accountable for their crimes.

'Kay, I'll give you a couple of examples, then. I grew up an Air Force brat, meaning the Air Force provided my medical care. At 21, I got my first taste of a privatized hospital. No comparison -- doctors and nurses actually had a decent bedside manner, the lab techs who drew my blood could actually, you know, *find* my veins (not that mine were terribly hard to find, but that never stopped the military phlebotomists from fishing for the vein more often than not). More expensive? Yeah, probably...but then again, taxes paid for medical care while seeing the AF docs, so I couldn't tell you for sure. User hostile? Not a chance.

Ditto for the year we had my daughter in private school. Her teachers, the administration, and pretty much everyone else in the private school bent over backwards to be helpful, and my daughter positively loved going to school. Again, yeah, it was expensive, but again, what is the cost per student in public school? I can't tell you, because it's lumped into my taxes, along with the cost for numerous other services. Consequently, I can't accurately show the cost of private vs. public, because the cost of public school is hidden from me. Actually, to be more accurate, I don't have to compare the cost of public vs. private schools, because I was bearing the cost of public school even while my daughter was attending private school.

One last argument to throw your way: we are spending BILLIONS per year on security theater right now, much of it on technology (like the explosive detecting puffer machines) that was rolled out, then scrapped because it didn't work. I have worked in private industry since 1996, and while some of the companies I have worked for have been more wasteful than others, I have yet to see a company that can afford to throw money away the same way the government does. A company that had the track record of TSA would be bankrupt by now; the government sends you a bill every April 15th and threatens to throw you in jail and/or confiscate your property if you don't pay. If the government needs more income, it raises your taxes, and you don't get the option of deciding not to "buy" government's services next year if the taxes get to high (unless you emmigrate, and that leads to other problems).

IME, government, being essentially both a monopoly and having the ability to coerce payment from you, has far less incentive to be either cost-effective or to display good customer service, is therefore is almost always more expensive and less customer friendly. YMMV.

A holder of a bond may “buy protection” to hedge its risk of default. In this way, a CDS is similar to credit insurance, although CDS are not subject to regulations governing traditional insurance. Also, investors can buy and sell protection without owning debt of the reference entity. These “naked credit default swaps” allow traders to speculate on the creditworthiness of reference entities. CDSs can be used to create synthetic long and short positions in the reference entity.[7] Naked CDS constitute most of the market in CDS.[13][14] In addition, CDSs can also be used in capital structure arbitrage.

Iowa Oregon Forbes article

Enjoy this picture to see the true stupidity of being cheap. http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/110629782/1007. Yes that is dry land at the back of the power plant, nothing like cheap when it comes to losing money hand over fist, "a water-filled tubular levee", to cheap even to pay for a real levee but what the heck risk tens or millions of people's water supply or chase bigger profits, the picture shows the answer to that one.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/706269898/1003211

Actually, the plant itself sits at 1004 ft above sea level making the wall 10 ft high and they used to be less than 10 ft. So saying the water is at 3 ft up a 10 ft wall is a bit different still. But since most all of Nebraska is at 900-1000 ft above sea level, there's lots of room for the muddy Missouri to spread out rather than up. Nebraska is THE flattest state I have ever seen. Not that 10ft walls really inspire confidence in me when it comes to Nuclear power plants.

It looks like your situation is not that dire. But if you want peace of mind, get a set of switches and install them on all doors and windows. Do not rely upon motion detection in cameras, this is not very reliable. In my case it gets triggered by sudden changes in illumination (such as caused by clouds) and by tree branches moving in the wind. PIR sensors aren't much better, they can react to cold (or hot) air coming in through a window or a vent and mixing with the air within the house. But simple switches will reliably tell you if the door is opened, for example. If your house is not easy to wire this way, get wireless sensors (Z-Wave, for example, or Insteon.) You can connect the whole thing so that you get an SMS when an event occurs, and then you can review the video.

But quite importantly you need to make sure that all this hardware has a deterrent effect. For example, your motion sensors (outdoors) should produce some very obvious effect, like activating floodlights around the house, or beeping something inside the house (loud enough that it is heard outside) and so on. Otherwise you may still be burglarized, even though after the fact there would be plenty of evidence to arrest and convict. I doubt you want to build a honeypot house; you want to make sure burglars don't even try. Of course your shutters help in this department. But they may reduce the resale value of your house (and of those of your neighbors) by pointing out that the whole area is unsafe (whether this is true or not - many buyers are scaredy cats, and no amount of explanations will help if facts speak for themselves.)

And with regard to "teenage bandits" - they are unpredictable and can be more dangerous than old, seasoned burglars.

Nope, you don't put hamsters into bongs.

You put cats into bongs.

No, I'm not making this up.

I sure hope you're being ironic.

I find it amusing that just this morning I read that the Air Force is in an uproar about needing $100B dollars over the next five years, just to prevent it's fleet from becoming anything less than cutting-edge.

Yet, NASA receives a mere $16.2B per year - and even with planned increases will not exceed the amount the Air Force is asking for in addition to what it already gets.

In short; I find it ridiculous that you can call anything "obsolete" that is barely funded, but has a much more sophisticated task to do. When NASA is as well funded as the Air Force, and can still not perform to par, then you can complain about it being obsolete.

I did my taxes a few weeks ago...but around here between TurboTax melting down and this people had a hard time getting their stuff in.

Am glad I didn't wait until the extremely last minute.

in the media on the subject.

For example, "Omaha Media Herald" http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2 348353 shows the university as the guilty party. If you would only read that article, you would think university is squirming uncomfortably.

What is interesting tho, is the mention of "taxpayers' dollars", with Uni saying it doesn't want to spend them on purschasing expensive anti-piracy software or modifying network to keep records on DHCP addresses, and RIAA retorting by saying Uni is wasting them(dollars) via bandwidth costs the pirates are using.

Here are the articles from the local paper (one town up that is).

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2 348353
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2 351702

Here are the articles from the local paper (one town up that is).

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2 348353
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2 351702

I am surprised no one has discussed the more insidious cover words... Particularly words that hide layoffs or firings. My company just went through layoffs two weeks back and instead of calling it layoffs they used a new word (new to me at least) 'right sizing'. Apparently 'down sizing' was too negative, but right sizing made everything ok.

I don't get where management types think if you change the word that this some how changes peoples responses. I wonder if this is how management people think...

scenerio 1

Manager: Jim, you have been laid off.

Jim from Accounts Receivable: Arg, Hulk smash!!!

scenerio 2

Manager: Jim, you have been oranged (code word for laid off).

Jim from Accounts Receivable: Oh... wheew... I don't feel angry or hurt that my family's future is now in jeopardy after twenty years of loyal service to the company! Thanks boss!

Intelsat 7 managed to knock out the Powerball communication in Nebraska. W/ the jackpot at about 127 million dollars, it's really hurting the potential ticket buyers' odds which already has approached near zero long ago. Omaha World Herald article details this unthinkable situation for those poor folks.

Were B.F. to have an opinion at this point, I'm quite sure it would reflect the fact that "personal liberty" and "the liberty and freedom of the general population" are the same - you can't have one without the other.

When this quote was penned, Franklin was reflecting on the actions of some colonists who were taking the side of the English in order to keep English soldiers from imprisoning other colonists... and possibly themselves. The English were an occupying force, and there were *NO* legal means which could be used to appeal their decisions. If they felt you were a threat, you were imprisoned without recourse.

I suppose you mean like those arrested and held indefinitely without formal charges today in America? But I digress...

The legal system in the US may move slowly, but it *does* move and it *does* work. Court decisions have said that the prisoners in Guantanamo are now required to have legal representation, and some may even be released. Abu Ghraib was being actively investigated *before* the media "caught on" and the case became "interesting" - look at the public record. And, the fact that we are having this discussion in an open forum without the fear that the "gummint" will arrest us, simply means that we are free to do so.

Yes, it means that we are free to do so...today.

However, any thinking person should see that our liberties are at risk, from many different directions. For instance, the right to peaceful assembly has been seriously undermined. Now, dissenters are allowed to assemble - in cages well away from public view. What a travesty - the DNC should be ashamed!

If the ID card is solely used to *prove who you are*, then it follows that you are who you *claim* to be... and *probably not* someone who wishes to hurt, maim, or kill as many grandmothers, wives, or children as he/she can. The assumption is, of course, that we haven't naturalized or home-bred more Timothy McVeighs -- something no government can defend against without totally invasive security measures which would never pass Congress' muster.

In other words, it's an ineffective measure which does very little besides erode our freedoms further.

Reflect on the fact that most of the 9/11 terrorists would have had shiny, legitimate national ID cards...now what good would they do again? And at what cost, both in dollars and liberty?

The problem with a national ID card isn't freedom, it's forgery: how do you prove that the ID card is not fake?

That is another problem. You know, you're right - I think instead of national ID cards we should have bone-implanted RFID tags (as 161 Mexican officials have). Anything for safety, right?

Let's get real. Those who wish us harm are not targeting the military. If they were, the 9/11 attacks would have been felt at military bases around the US and the rest of the world. These malcontents are targeting *us*.

And, miraculously, we've managed to avoid any further attacks for nearly three years - without national ID cards. How is this possible?!?

Meanwhile, ~150,000 of our fellow citizens (yes 50 times as many as died on 9/11) have died in traffic accidents. Let's keep our risks in perspective, eh?

I don't see how carrying a national ID card, which proves that I am *ME*, means that I have given up my liberty to obtain freedom.

I don't have a "liberty to obtain freedom" - I have an "inalienable right to be free". See the difference? I wonder why assurances were made when the Social Security Number was introduced that it would "never be a national ID"?

At any

Senegal seems to be more stable than just about any South American country & can give some European countries ( think the Balkans) a run for their money

'Tis no wonder then that French Call Centers are focused there

But the worst mental environment was at a shrill right-wing newspaper in the Midwest. I clumsily tried to write editorials, which the then-editor rarely ended up agreeing with as I stand somewhat to the left of folks like Michael Savage and Robert Bartley. (As does most of America....) The editor routinely spiked articles that might offend his buddies and insulted his staff in widely-leaked management memos that sometimes included graphic slurs. (Ah, journalism in the days before Romenesko!)

One day, after getting back a scathing set of reviews from an employee survey, the guy locked me and the other four writers from my department in a darkened room, where he harangued us for almost an hour about our "bad attitudes" and threatened us with even worse treatment unless our morale improved.

I swear, Scott Adams should have sued the guy for copyright infringement.

Google link didn't work for me. Here is a link to another article about the same topic.

Article

And if you like Nebraska a lot (I don't care one way or the other) here's an article about it in the Omaha newspaper.

Omaha

• American Gramaphone is one of the last, great, financially successful independent labels
• By constrast, most of the other major labels are in a "tailspin," with record sales down 10% since last year
• Mannheim Steamroller has dominated the Christmas album business. Their latest album, "Christmas Extraordinaire," was the #1 Christmas album last year, and the #2 holiday album overall in 2002 and 2001
• Their customer base is older, and more likely to buy CD's than "rip and burn" music off of the Internet
• Part of their business success comes from "value-added" packaging, such as bundling their CD's in "gift packs" with scented candles, hot chocolate, even extra two-sided DVD's with the album and videos in surround sound (a feature only now being adopted by major labels) and mass-marketing those value-added packages to non-traditional outlets, not just record stores

• American Gramaphone is one of the last, great, financially successful independent labels
• By constrast, most of the other major labels are in a "tailspin," with record sales down 10% since last year
• Mannheim Steamroller has dominated the Christmas album business. Their latest album, "Christmas Extraordinaire," was the #1 Christmas album last year, and the #2 holiday album overall in 2002 and 2001
• Their customer base is older, and more likely to buy CD's than "rip and burn" music off of the Internet
• Part of their business success comes from "value-added" packaging, such as bundling their CD's in "gift packs" with scented candles, hot chocolate, even extra two-sided DVD's with the album and videos in surround sound (a feature only now being adopted by major labels) and mass-marketing those value-added packages to non-traditional outlets, not just record stores

First there weren't any genes jumping. The farmer raised the pharmaceutical corn last year for Prodigene. This year he planted soybeans into the field. Some of the corn seed from last year grew in the field this year as a weed. The farmers call it volunteer corn. The farmer received warnings from Prodigene's representative and the government that the volunteer corn must be eradicated. The last warning was less than a week before harvest. By the time the government checked back and learned the farmer wasn't in compliance the soybeans were at the elevator. The 500 bushels (3000 lbs) of soybeans were contaminated with 60 grams of corn stalks. Unfortunately they got mixed into a 500,000 bushel bin at the elevator. What we learned is that the government (believe it or not) actually did a good job of protecting our interests. Prodigene will buy the soybeans and they will be destroyed. Current use of biotech corn has reduced farmers use of insecticides by million of pounds. Pharmaceutical corn has the potential to greatly lower drug costs for seniors. Here's a URL from the Omaha Herald Here and another from the BIO organization Here Man Holmes

I finally found the link I was searching for. The article originated in the Washington Post, and was carried by the Omaha World Herald. The article, as published by the OWH can be found at http://www.om aha.com/ind ex.atp?u_div=3&u_hdg=3&u_sid=26996.

I finally found the link I was searching for. The article originated in the Washington Post, and was carried by the Omaha World Herald. The article, as published by the OWH can be found at http://www.om aha.com/ind ex.atp?u_div=3&u_hdg=3&u_sid=26996.

I think I mis-spoke. I'm sure I saw this proposed in the Omaha World Herald(dead-tree edition) within the last two weeks, but now I can't find it in the online archive. Hmmm, strange.

Local Papers are commonly biased in their reporting. Online papers are too. The advantage with online papers is that you can either find one that matches your bias or compare and contrast in an effort to find the truth. Papers from a foreign country are extremely important, as they'll allow you a perspective on your own country that is impossible to get from non-imported print media.

The process of printing means the news is old (by modern standards) by the time I read it. Why would I want to read old news? (Or as Wired put it a few years ago, "Wired is Tired.")

I live in Omaha. The paper used to be close to useless due to biased content, however they have adapted nicely. I can search and find news articles and, more importantly, search the classifieds. The last one makes my ad much more valuable and it makes looking for an item or a job much easier. If I want an exercise bike, I can search a few weeks of newspapers quickly and easily.

I'll read the newsmagazines (such as Time and Newsweek) when someone can convince me they've started to put out issues without faked photos and with accurate content. The last few times I looked at one they were covering Columbine and the Seattle W.T.O. events. The bias and partial coverage of the events in their reporting made the article worthless.

If print news wants to compete with online news they must base themselves off of the two advantages they have over the online community. Those advantages are portability and locality. This means that they need to quit paying for news feeds (a.p., etc.), improve local editorials and news articles, and decrease the size and cost of the paper. In addition, an online mirror (as described above) has its uses, especially for classifieds. Finally, there are services a paper can do well that the internet doesn't. Comics, crosswords, and Advice columns (bathroom reading) are still better in papers than online. Expand your comics/crossword section. Cover local sports and local politics heavily. Contain content aimed at your entire community. Contain editorials that are controversial.

Newspapers have long held an effective monopoly in many areas. They have grown weak and really are not good at dealing with competition. Some papers are wonderful, but many are utter drek.

Realize that many local news teams have used humor to stay sucessful. Consider it.

News is news. It is a list of the facts regarding a situation. They should not contain opinions. Editorials are editorials. They are opinions that contain news as a basis for the opinions. John Katz writes editorials that use news as support. (good). Taco writes news that contains editorials (bad). If newspapers could learn to remove bias and sensationalism from their reporting they would do a lot better. (And if they think we don't see it then their only blinding themselves.)

A friend of mine has gone out on a camera crew with the Daily Show. The method is simple. Interview someone for 2 to three hours and throw in a really oddball question after the first hour or so and every half hour after that. The person doesn't realize that the whole purpose of the interview is the few odd questions so they do their best to answer them and end up looking like an idiot. What's sad is that it seems that the real news does much the same thing. They blow rolls of film, including a number of staged shots for many articles. As a result, we've grown used to it and it has ceased to have an impact on us. Papers do it. We know they do it. We've seen them do it. Therefore we cease to trust them. Why would I pay to read news I don't trust?

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Local Papers are commonly biased in their reporting. Online papers are too. The advantage with online papers is that you can either find one that matches your bias or compare and contrast in an effort to find the truth. Papers from a foreign country are extremely important, as they'll allow you a perspective on your own country that is impossible to get from non-imported print media.

The process of printing means the news is old (by modern standards) by the time I read it. Why would I want to read old news? (Or as Wired put it a few years ago, "Wired is Tired.")

I live in Omaha. The paper used to be close to useless due to biased content, however they have adapted nicely. I can search and find news articles and, more importantly, search the classifieds. The last one makes my ad much more valuable and it makes looking for an item or a job much easier. If I want an exercise bike, I can search a few weeks of newspapers quickly and easily.

I'll read the newsmagazines (such as Time and Newsweek) when someone can convince me they've started to put out issues without faked photos and with accurate content. The last few times I looked at one they were covering Columbine and the Seattle W.T.O. events. The bias and partial coverage of the events in their reporting made the article worthless.

If print news wants to compete with online news they must base themselves off of the two advantages they have over the online community. Those advantages are portability and locality. This means that they need to quit paying for news feeds (a.p., etc.), improve local editorials and news articles, and decrease the size and cost of the paper. In addition, an online mirror (as described above) has its uses, especially for classifieds. Finally, there are services a paper can do well that the internet doesn't. Comics, crosswords, and Advice columns (bathroom reading) are still better in papers than online. Expand your comics/crossword section. Cover local sports and local politics heavily. Contain content aimed at your entire community. Contain editorials that are controversial.

Newspapers have long held an effective monopoly in many areas. They have grown weak and really are not good at dealing with competition. Some papers are wonderful, but many are utter drek.

Realize that many local news teams have used humor to stay sucessful. Consider it.

News is news. It is a list of the facts regarding a situation. They should not contain opinions. Editorials are editorials. They are opinions that contain news as a basis for the opinions. John Katz writes editorials that use news as support. (good). Taco writes news that contains editorials (bad). If newspapers could learn to remove bias and sensationalism from their reporting they would do a lot better. (And if they think we don't see it then their only blinding themselves.)

A friend of mine has gone out on a camera crew with the Daily Show. The method is simple. Interview someone for 2 to three hours and throw in a really oddball question after the first hour or so and every half hour after that. The person doesn't realize that the whole purpose of the interview is the few odd questions so they do their best to answer them and end up looking like an idiot. What's sad is that it seems that the real news does much the same thing. They blow rolls of film, including a number of staged shots for many articles. As a result, we've grown used to it and it has ceased to have an impact on us. Papers do it. We know they do it. We've seen them do it. Therefore we cease to trust them. Why would I pay to read news I don't trust?

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