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As Newsweek's cover story on Biden makes clear, the vice president has long opposed escalating in Afghanistan. So if the president decides to escalate, Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on his "deep reservations" and resign.
Posted by Jason Kottke on under y2k computer bug, media hype, happy meals, short essay, mey, kottke, farhad manjoo, jas, newsweek, slate, fears, lt, trains, nbsp, banks |
I contributed a short essay to Newsweek's 2010 project for the Overblown Fears list: Y2K.
Despite the media hype, the biggest story about the Y2K computer bug is that nothing happened. Trains didn't spontaneously derail. McDonald's didn't roll back to turn-of-the-century pricing (no Happy Meals for a ha'penny). And the banks didn't lose all of our money; we'd have to wait another eight years for that.
Farhad Manjoo recently did a 2-part piece on the lessons of Y2K for Slate.
Tags: farhadmanjoo Jason Kottke lists The 2000s y2kPosted by on under fake steve jobs, extreme secrecy, ipads, mark potts, ipad, pr tactics, th interview, conflicts of interest, power balance, leakers, cnn, steve jobs, reliable sources, directi, lys, newsweek, breakers, embargo, hammer, apple |
It's no secret that there weren't many iPads given out ahead of time. Apple is, of course, notorious for their extreme secrecy and the hammer that inevitably comes down on leakers and embargo breakers. They have the press in the hollow of their hand, with the iPad more than ever. Time and Newsweek are competing for who gets the best coverage of the device both establishments hope will revitalize their industry. The power balance is tipped unusually far in Apple's direction, and while you can't blame them for whipping the world into a iFroth over their new product, you can certainly be annoyed that you don't get to do your job and write about it, as has been the case with many tech journalists. Daniel Lyons, AKA Fake Steve Jobs, makes a living (or at least a hobby) of reporting and lampooning Apple news. Unfortunately, his controversial status meant that his employer, Newsweek, got pretty much left out of the iPad party. Lyons and Recovering Journalist blogger Mark Potts weigh in on Apple's tactics and the politics of tech journalism in this interview on CNN's Reliable Sources.
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 FOXNews | Peru's Vargas Llosa, an unyielding intellectual Reuters LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has dazzled readers for decades with novels about power and corruption, but annoyed much of Latin America's leftist intelligentsia with his contrarian views. ... Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize is recognition of the Spanish language Monsters and Critics.com Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity The Guardian Mario Vargas Llosa: Why the 2010 Nobel Prize winner stirs controversy in Peru Christian Science Monitor Newsweek - AFP - The Canadian Press all 1,216 news articles » |
