Year: 2012
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Needed: A “Remove Recent Incident” Button on Google
Remember when weather radar reports used to reference “ground clutter” near the antennae— the clump of color that looked like it was rain, but wasn’t? We seem to have that same problem in search engine results for items that pop high in the news— ground clutter focused on recent events that stop us from having…
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Revisiting Trut in Light of Jason Russell, This American Life, and Mike Daisey
In 1997, long before Stephen Colbert ever had a show on cable, I wrote an essay for Emigre Magazine wherein I coined the term “trut”, which is the mutable concoction of facts employed for an ulterior purpose. Vote it up on Urban Dictionary, plz. Editor Rudy Van der Lans was putting together Emgire 41, “The…
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Protected: New Photos Series: Tolva on Stages
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Some Thoughts on Rush Limbaugh and Advertising
I don’t have much unique to add to the amazing and effective campaign to muff up Rush Limbaugh after his heinous remarks of last week. It’s wonderful. I have, however, listened to this person for many years (it’s the best way to figure out Republican political strategy) and I’m kind of obsessed with reverse-engineering facts…
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The Ballad of Tyler Hicks
Tyler Hicks is one of the best war photographers in history. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and worked with some of the best, including C. J. Chivers and Dexter Filkins, trying to explain a world gone mad. In March of last year, Hicks— along with colleagues Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Stephen Farrell— was…