January 2011
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The crisis in Egypt is keeping British newspapers busy this morning, with several tabloids sending reporters to Cairo to report the drama from the ground.
This is how the main stories from Britain’s best-selling dailies begin. Keen-eyed media studies graduates may detect a pattern:
The Daily Mail (average daily circulation last month 2,030,968):”British tourists…”
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Watch“Any time you see that arab youth fist pump, you know you’re going to see pain at the pump.”
LOLOL. Get it? Haha.
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Balls out
15. Go home. Take the Alfredo sauce out of the cupboard. Boil some water. Find your roommate playing video games. When he asks what you were out doing, laugh with exaggerated hysteria and tell him you were nailing chicks. Such banter is unusual for you. If your roommate comments on this, inform him that he is a fag.
The Young Man’s Guide to Wearing and Shopping for Women’s...
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Watch
The Power of Nightmares: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” by Adam Curtis
This film explains the origin of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism. It shows Egyptian civil servant Sayyid Qutb, depicted as the founder of modern Islamist thought, visiting the U.S. to learn about the education system, but becoming disgusted with what he saw as a corruption of morals and virtues in western society...
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The language of bullshit
The worst? “Going forward” has infected the world of diplomacy just as thoroughly as the world of business, as has talk of “stakeholders”. I am alarmed at the rise and rise of “piece”, as in “when it comes to the trans-Atlantic relationship, we need to focus on the energy piece, and not just the strategic piece.” For that matter,...
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Who asked?
“Why am I not in Davos? Basically, because there’s not much for me there. I’ve never found talking to business leaders and politicians a good way to figure out what’s really happening; maybe that works for some people, but I find looking at data and talking to smart young economists a much better way to gain some insights. And I think that’s mostly true. The conventions of the news business mean...
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