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Bad Headline Mars Good NY Times Story Debunking Lindzen’s ‘Discredited’ Cloud Theory. Can You Do Better?

May 3, 2012   ·   0 Comments

By Joe Romm: Your not-so-impossible mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a headline that better reflects the actual content of today’s NY Times article, ...

Small Terms Make a Big Difference: How the NY Times Misinterpreted a New Cocaine Study

By Dr. Becca: Last week, the New York Times’ “Well” section ran a piece titled, “How Exercise Can Prime the Brain for Addiction.” Scary, right? One minute you’re ...

Blind to the Elephant in the Room: Corporate Propaganda and Environmental Decline

By Michael McGehee: The New York Times ran a very interesting article last week on a study published online in the Journal of Personality and Social ...

The Fair Labor Association Will Audit Apple Factories in China – So What?

By Paul Garver: When I read the otherwise well researched feature story in the New York Times, in which Apple announced it would have the Fair Labor Association ...

iEmpire: Apple’s Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think

By Arun Gupta: Behind the sleek face of the iPad is an ugly backstory that has revealed once more the horrors of globalization. The buzz about ...

RIAA Chief Hits New Heights of Hypocrisy in Pro-SOPA NYT Op-Ed

By Kevin Fogarty: Accuses opponents of most of the sins of his own industry, plus a few he just made up. RIAA chief complains anti-SOPA forces used his own ...

RIAA Totally Out Of Touch: Lashes Out At Google, Wikipedia And Everyone Who Protested SOPA/PIPA

By Mike Masnick: Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were “humbled” by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons about trying ...

The Recording Industry Complains About Free Speech (Seriously)

By Dean Baker: Cary Sherman, the chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), had a column in the NYT complaining about “how the democratic process ...

What the RIAA Won’t Tell You: Users Matter

By Corynne McSherry: We really have to wonder when the message is going to sink in. On January 18, millions of Internet users spoke out together in one of the most profound and effective uses of technology to organize political opposition in U.S. history...

Close Reading: The Saudis, a Twitter Investment, and the End of Arab Spring?

By Russ Baker: Is Twitter (a) a leading vehicle for freedom movements, or (b) primed to control and shut down open discourse throughout the world? This question ...

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