tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post7256556289675063444..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Credibility & Commentarykcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-82765925107306176952014-06-28T15:43:45.656-04:002014-06-28T15:43:45.656-04:00Excellent idea, Chris Halkides. We should start a ...Excellent idea, Chris Halkides. We should start a Wiki blog with errors and omissions. <br /><br />About the numerous mistakes and failures to fact-check: I concluded that no one cares. Society has changed in that way. We don't need the truth, editors surmise. What we need, in this era of round-the-clock entertainment news, is volume and emotional wallop...not veracity. The show matters more than the truth. This marks a corruption of purpose. <br /><br />Watching videos of Brad Bannon at Nifong's trials, we see him working hard to report only what is true. In Nifong's protestations we see a different kind of lawyer: one who wanted fidelity to the shows he helped create. Which of the two is known for his deep integrity? <br /><br />To counter distortions caused by bearing false witness, America needs stronger slander/libel laws. With stronger laws the truth will matter more to people with more marginal, or situational integrity. This will include editors who have strayed from principles adhered to by their predecessors. Opportunities will open up for fact-checkers.<br /><br />Maria Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-90827789831514473692014-06-28T12:37:07.993-04:002014-06-28T12:37:07.993-04:00Slightly off-topic: I am slogging my way through ...Slightly off-topic: I am slogging my way through this book, and this conversation with an anonymous trustee (p. 215) discussing the cancellation of the season caught my eye: "Remember this wasn't long after the Virginia Tech shootings [in which a crazed gunman killed thirty-two people...]"<br /><br />The Virginia Tech shooting happened in April of 2007. If I were in a forgiving mood, I might excuse a trustee for getting the date of the shooting wrong by a year, because the trustee might have been speaking as late as 2013. However, Cohan inserted the number of killed and wounded in to the book at this juncture. One might have expected a serious investigative journalist to remind his readers of the correct date of the shooting.<br /><br />Probably someone else has already caught this particular problem, and I am just catching up. In any case, I suggest starting a Wiki to collect all of Cohan's errors and omissions. IMO the omissions are in some ways worse.Chris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-70257265262947103812014-06-27T21:02:25.319-04:002014-06-27T21:02:25.319-04:00One wonders how KC remains a Democrat.One wonders how KC remains a Democrat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38670027701118989862014-06-27T20:48:37.816-04:002014-06-27T20:48:37.816-04:00Seriously, what father would allow his daughter to...Seriously, what father would allow his daughter to attend an institution where she has a one in five chance of being raped? Kind of makes you wonder if the Democrats want women to attend college, doesn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-13701947967319258262014-06-27T20:44:24.343-04:002014-06-27T20:44:24.343-04:00Pretty good. You mind if I quote that?Pretty good. You mind if I quote that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-51057443340987175342014-06-27T16:20:45.526-04:002014-06-27T16:20:45.526-04:00David Burge @iowahawkblog
If I understand college...David Burge @iowahawkblog<br />If I understand college administrators correctly, colleges are hotbeds of racism and rape that everyone should be able to attend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-86225996734638022712014-06-21T00:16:48.303-04:002014-06-21T00:16:48.303-04:00One of the common accusations I have heard from th...One of the common accusations I have heard from the Left is that anyone who is pro-life "wants government in the bedroom."<br /><br />Well, the Left (courtesy of the California legislature) now officially has decided that government MUST be in the bedroom, at least with the infamous "sign here if you want sex" bill. If this is not government in the bedroom, then nothing is.William L. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-77250615899451255732014-06-19T16:56:35.364-04:002014-06-19T16:56:35.364-04:00Is Storin a Communist?Is Storin a Communist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-48021194110395956972014-06-18T20:31:09.899-04:002014-06-18T20:31:09.899-04:00I second the sentiments of the anonymous commenter...I second the sentiments of the anonymous commenter at 8:24.Chris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65301178076782618352014-06-18T20:24:18.203-04:002014-06-18T20:24:18.203-04:00KCJ has posted another superb analysis at Minding ...KCJ has posted another superb analysis at <i>Minding the Campus</i>: "<a href="http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2014/06/if-she-had-drinks-you-may-be-a-rapist/" rel="nofollow">If She Had Drinks, You May Be a Rapist</a>" on 6/18/14.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72226938817616448562014-06-17T21:40:00.662-04:002014-06-17T21:40:00.662-04:00Is Peggy Reeves Sanday a Communist?Is Peggy Reeves Sanday a Communist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-29599664068842638002014-06-17T20:44:18.605-04:002014-06-17T20:44:18.605-04:00Seems that the link to KCJ's article at Mindin...Seems that the link to KCJ's article at <i>Minding the Campus</i> is bad. But I did discover a short article "<a href="http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2014/06/presumed-guilty-due-process-lessons-of-the-duke-lacrosse-case/" rel="nofollow">Presumed Guilty: Due Process Lessons of the Duke Lacrosse Case</a>" with a 12-minute video featuring KCJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16078693556949723712014-06-17T11:31:33.570-04:002014-06-17T11:31:33.570-04:00Laura Dunn, another man-eater, feminist activist w...Laura Dunn, another man-eater, feminist activist who is the founder of Survjustice.org has recently suggested that women who come forwarded and report sexual assault should be rewarded with scholarships. First the BGI and now FRAI - False Rape Accusation Industry. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-25108174732697855282014-06-17T09:02:05.607-04:002014-06-17T09:02:05.607-04:00"...a lower standard than that expected from ..."...a lower standard than that expected from first-year Globe reporters."<br /><br />Should read "...a lower standard than that of a Junior High School Journalism Club."skwillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17216150339054413310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-8880005540087796032014-06-16T17:39:20.612-04:002014-06-16T17:39:20.612-04:00KC,
It is my hope that you will write an article ...KC,<br /><br />It is my hope that you will write an article for a major magazine about what appears to be a profoundly wrongheaded solution to a real, but exaggerated problem of sexual assault on campus.Chris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-50592038106641529152014-06-16T17:08:29.979-04:002014-06-16T17:08:29.979-04:00"Matt Storin, the (well-respected) former edi..."Matt Storin, the (well-respected) former editor of the Boston Globe."<br /> <br />change that to: <br /><br />Matt Storin, the (formerly well-respected) one-time editor of the Boston Globe. <br /><br />Secondly, "Storin gushes that Cohan “interviewed so many of the key people, and so well, that it is mostly captivating.” WHAT? Words fail me, but you pretty much knocked down that assertion as you finished the paragraph.<br /> <br />Lastly, I did check the comment section of the Notre Dame Alumni article. There was one comment, and it was a decent "take-down" of the Cohan book. I'd like to see an evisceration on the order of what Mark Wylie did on the Amazon site. His critique would probably be turned down on the basis of clarity of thought and sound argumentation and maybe length. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-19233293508955057872014-06-16T15:49:28.458-04:002014-06-16T15:49:28.458-04:00Matt Storin now joins an extensive list of reviewe...Matt Storin now joins an extensive list of reviewers of "Price" who are able to say,<br /><br />"Who's got time to read no stinkin' 650 page book"?<br /><br />Jim Peterson<br /><br />Jim In San Diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959286127760699852noreply@blogger.com