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My recent article on media bias ["Label Whores: Bernard Goldberg may not be wrong about the presence of bias in the media -- he's just wrong that it's 'liberal,'"TAP, May 6, 2002] touched a number of...
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My American Prospect study of press labeling continues to evoke responses from conservatives vexed by the finding that the press actually labels liberals more often than those on the right. In a lot of...
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"The masquerade is over; it's time to ... use the dreaded 'L' word, to say the policies of our opposition ... are liberal, liberal, liberal." -- Ronald Reagan, 1988 Since the 1930s, the landscape of...
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Tom: You got dances, too?Caretaker: We got the best dances in the county every Saturday night.Tom: Say, who runs this place?Caretaker: The government. -- The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 (screenplay by...
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Lingo Jingo
Since Slovakia became an independent state a few years ago, the Slovak majority has been imposing increasingly stringent language restrictions on the ethnic Hungarian minority, whom they suspect of...
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Will Libraries Survive?
In a Washington Post interview a couple of years ago, Bill Gates discussed his plans to give away the bulk of his fortune and suggested he already had in mind doing with the personal computer...
View ArticleThe Internet Filter Farce
What if the baseball could repair the window?" reads the headline of a recent ad for myCIO.com. The copy continues: "The Internet caused the problem. It's only fitting it should also provide the...
View ArticleWill the Internet Always Speak English?
In 1898, when Otto von Bismarck was an old man, a journalist asked him what he took to be the decisive factor in modern history. He answered, "The fact that the North Americans speak English." In...
View ArticleMedia: Label Whores
Listening to people complain about bias in the media, you're reminded that there is more than one paranoid style in American politics. While the left has busied itself unpacking interlocking...
View ArticleLabel Whores, Take Two:
My recent article on media bias ["Label Whores: Bernard Goldberg may not be wrong about the presence of bias in the media -- he's just wrong that it's 'liberal,'"TAP, May 6, 2002] touched a number of...
View ArticleStill Unbiased:
My American Prospect study of press labeling continues to evoke responses from conservatives vexed by the finding that the press actually labels liberals more often than those on the right. In a lot of...
View ArticleThe Liberal Label
"The masquerade is over; it's time to ... use the dreaded 'L' word, to say the policies of our opposition ... are liberal, liberal, liberal." -- Ronald Reagan, 1988 Since the 1930s, the landscape of...
View ArticleSpeech Impediments
For a lesson in how the right uses language to shape political perceptions, consider the television ad that the archconservative Club for Growth ran during the Iowa caucuses. An announcer asks a...
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