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winter 12/18/2011 03:11 PM Report
Let me add ports, channels, buffers, busses which to the geek aren't all the same thing. But they did give the tech challenged Wizards and Plug and Play ...how long before we have to configure and initialize those too? At the very least I could get someone in support for whom english isn't their second language. Guess we need a couple more decades of this argument.
winter 12/05/2011 04:25 PM Report
Looks like as good a place as any to air my frustrations with computers. Why do I have to discover that I need some sort of "codec" after downloading pictures and video from my cameras to my media player? Oh, thats not the half of it.
My suspicion is that computer people insure our need for them by sabotaging computers with so maddening a myriad of
needed software "parts" that when we discover we have to have some codec, direct x, signature, ceritificate etc etc etc that should have been done before the contraption ever got to consumers or in the updates, we end up calling support and they tell us it's going to cost us to fix their mistakes. I know, tough luck pal, if you want the joys computing can bring you you'll have to conform and subordinate. It MY fault for not keeping up. I just had to replace my hard drive not because it wore out like a cars brakes but because of a Tar Baby entanglement of incompatilbilities my digital humunculus couldn't find the bread crumbs back to where it got itself into the mess in the first place ...and yes I did try to restore it to a previous era when it worked. Open architectures is a race horse designed by committee. I know, buy an Apple right? sheez!
SharkswithfrikingLazers 06/29/2011 03:21 AM Report
Jason Jones visits the the New York Times' offices to find out why the last of a dying breed prefers aged news to real news.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-10-2009/end-times?xrs=share_copy
I am starting to Google Twitter feeds for breaking news. It appears to me to be as good as a reporter on the balcony of his hotel room talking about an event--or worse interviewing another reporter about the event.
As for print journalism, the flow from the witness to the reporter to the editor to my eyes can be good sometimes and bad sometimes.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 06/28/2011 07:11 PM Report
Gay Talese said he spends two hours every day with the Times.
So how much time does he spend reading and searching on-line, tweeting, texting, etc.?
Two hours is a luxury most can not afford nor do they want to spend it in this way in the 21st century.
I am torn between my Canon AE-1 and my Canon PowerShot but digital is winning in my life and I haven't used film in quite some time. So goes my newspaper life. I get a digital newspaper two days a week and a hardcopy the rest of the week.
The Times represents truth and that is why Michael Moore has their fact checkers review his films. For this I am truly grateful.
robdverity 06/28/2011 07:09 PM Report
Shalom epitomizes the anathema of Zionism and Zionists. His ENTITLEMENT to an all pro-Israel media is reflected in his post below and in previous entries whining for monitoring against any anti-Israeli entries. He and the Zionist Jewry add to THE CHOSEN'S repugnance. They feel no compunction at setting the world against one another - ref 9/11, Iraq, Af-Pak et al.
The Jews en masse seem to excel in forever tweaking the media - down to this CR level.
Ah but they're entitled! Ask them. (The NYT is prob. more in line than Shalom's bigotry can admit.)
anne4444 06/28/2011 02:55 PM Report
Here is someone who is willing to give up his personal freedom for free housing, free meals and free healthcare in a JAIL through $1 bank robbery. His name is James Verone.
Biological and physiological needs are the first human needs per Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. A journalist can’t be free until the first primary needs are satisfied.
MarieIsenburg 06/28/2011 01:10 PM Report
I did a comparison of the Times and Lebanon Star reporting on the death of Hariri while I was in school. The perspectives were a world apart, but I felt that both were needed to understand the story. That said, though I could spend 24 hours a day sourcing and verifying news stories, I don't want to. I want an editor to assess the news and present it to me as befits her judgment. As I'm under budget restrictions, I don't want to pay for online news if ads will cover it, nor could I subscribe to a single news source, however reliable. I've long wished for a monthly fee that would cover a basket of truly diverse papers. My fear is that they would soon adopt a common editorial policy, or worse, that all the sites would target stories they think I "want" to see. What a nightmare. So I try to get to the library for the paper as edited.
REMant 06/28/2011 12:02 PM Report
I didn't know this was a race. In any case I thot the other two segments a lot more important than this one. I find many websites far more informative than the newspapers and TV broadcasts I see. It has got to the point that I read and watch them only to discover their bias. I wouldn't discount AP, Reuters, and other syndicates in speaking about this subject tho. Too much "original" reporting these days comes, however, from public relations depts. If I had even a fraction of a cent for each time I've seen the same story in almost the same language presented on the same day by different news organizations, I'd be a very, very rich man. And the TV ppl also steal from each other. The Post seems to be doing fairly well with its website on ads alone, BTW. The print edition carries far fewer of them, thankfully, which makes it lighter and easier to read, as well as, easier to dispose of. But Kindle, etc makes electronic subscription more viable, too. It should be kept in mind when discussing this subject that for decades newspapers made vastly more money than they should from their monopoly on advertising. Someone will unfortunately still make that money, and it is up to these gentlemen to see that it's them.
Re the statement made in the intro about Twitter, the weather staff of one of the local TV stations often takes polls on its website. When you vote you get to see the results. This week they asked how often they should send out Tweets. The last choice was labeled "I don't use Twitter." I picked it, and found I was one of 82%.
ShalomFreedman 06/28/2011 11:39 AM Report
Mailer once wrote a book called 'Advertisments for Myself'. This program sounds a bit like that. In truth 'The Times' is a two- headed monster (At minimum). One of those heads is the outstanding paper all these people were talking about. It still has investigative reporters and it provides coverage at a high level of Science, Health, Books and a whole host of other areas. But the second side is far more questionable. The 'Times' does not really 'cover the world' in its News. Like all Western media it focuses and over- focuses on certain areas and neglects great swaths of humanity. Secondly, the 'Times Editorials' sometimes appear as if they were written by naive liberal upper- class snobs who have no idea of what the world is about. Here I will grind my own axe and say that in my opinion their coverage of Israel and the Middle East is embarassing, and shameful. They just do not seem to be aware of, or are not interested in reporting what occurs throughout most of the Arab world and its media. This connects with one of the 'Times' great historical failures, its failure to provide its readers with information it had while the 'Holocaust' was being perpetrated. One long- time supposition has been that the non- Jewish Jewish ownership of the 'Times' the Sulzberger family has been behind this. In any case the present day tilt against Israel is indicative of the unfairness and poor judgment of the Times. This brings me to a third point of criticism. The Times major columnists are often amateurish and unfair. Roger Cohen is the supreme example of this. Tom Friedman pontificating from one end of the earth to another is another one who never reminds the readers about the way his previous 'prophecy' has proven mistaken. On the other hand I would say that Nicholas Kristoff in his reporting from around the world, and especially in regard to the abuses suffered by women throughout the world is precisely the kind of columnist a great paper should have.
I have read the 'Times' for many years and one reason of course is that it is read by so many others is a kind of reference point. Again it has many excellent departments and overall has a depth and comprehensiveness few can compare with. But in its basic political line it has in my judgment been largely detrimental.
JohnGelles 06/28/2011 11:15 AM Report
Before I leave let me say I grew up in a NYT family. I was an avid fan of the paper from 1939 on, especially of the Book Review. I may even re-subscribe after this show. I may especially appreciate the new NYT as I do the CR Show.
JohnGelles 06/28/2011 11:06 AM Report
With luck, I could beat REMant to comment on this show. I'm not using TV. I'm listening with phones plugged into an old HP PC.
I have not seen the documentary on the NYT today. But I do try to keep up with journalism via TV. Anyway REMant will be here in a minute or two. So I'll post this and post later after I'm primed with the whole show.
I have always loved all that I read written by Gay Talese. His is one of the best writers I've been privileged to read.
So far the program is only half done on this PC -- and I will have to listen again after I see my dentist. A crown fell off. I did not swallow it. Back in many hours.