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July 22, 2014

One might go sentence by sentence

through any of the news reports I have seen, to show comprehensively sloppy thinking, and therefore slop where any reporting is attempted, but what would be achieved?
Another million plops will land even as the first is being shovelled. Meanwhile the still formidable resources of mainstream news media are assigned not to find out what is happening in Mosul, but on e.g. “Carrie shows new side,” “Darling gets big gift,” “Upton barely covers up,” and “Veggies you may really like.”
On news judgement : Essays in Idleness

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 22, 2014 9:08 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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