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The Fox and the Hedgehog: Which one are you?

The Fox and the Hedgehog: Which one are you?

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” — Archilochus Which one are you?  The ancient parable of the fox and the hedgehog has come into increasing view in popular culture lately.  And while its origins are somewhat ambiguous, the...

Faux News Offends Canada Again

I must admit that this took a while to get to me since I tend to pay attention to actual news and not racist, homophobic, xenophobic, marginalist neo-con right-wing propaganda, but Greg Gutfeld last week took time out of his busy broadcast schedule to offend Canadians...

How To Identify Misinformation

File this under the “insufficiently-developed sense of their own irony” category .. from the intrepid U.S. State Department, a handy guide for identifying misinformation and propaganda, and a clue into their establishment of a so-called...

Bush & Blair

As the world watches Tony Blair twist in the wind as his political career wanes with accusations of Dodgy Dossiers and his misleading of parliament, the domino drops onto the Bush administration as accusations begin to fly on this side of the Atlantic. The precedent...

Fiction and The New Journalism…

The print media seems to be eating itself alive. In the drive for more sensationalism, more gripping headlines, more compelling stories, and most importantly more readership, editors are being effectively romanced by ambitious young writers seeking to make names for...