Really, Fox News?
Fox News hired a doctor to confirm that President Obama’s son would look nothing like Trayvon Martin. That’s fucking investigative journalism and science at its finest.
I found a video for those who can bare to watch.
I couldn’t even watch a full minute.
Fox News, you are so pathetic.
Lou Dobbs, you’re such a sweaty blubbery white embarrassment. How many networks have you been fired from?
Journalism!
Dr. Keith Ablow, resident Fox News psychiatric quack, on the results of The Hunger Games, which he insists “adds to the toxic psychological forces it identifies.”
Fox News has also established The Hunger Games as a “cautionary tale against big government.”
Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, sort of apologizing but not really at all for his comments that wearing a hoodie killed Trayvon Martin.
Blaming victims, saving lives: the American motto.
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, arguing that had Trayvon Martin been dressed more appropriately, he would have not looked so suspicious and would not have been murdered.
It’s an explosive story with ingredients that Fox News should be well familiar with: race, guns, and crime.
But as the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin makes national headlines, Fox’s coverage is becoming a story in its own right—from its slow start behind other networks to its attempt to shift the story onto the more comfortable turf of gun control….
“You never know motivations. But Fox has a habit in the stories they pick: they did more than 90 segments on the New Black Panther story, but they certainly don’t dedicate that kind of coverage to Trayvon Martin,” Rabin-Havt said. “I can’t tell you why they pick the stories they pick, but it does say a lot about the network.”
Hi guys. So, I’m about to embark on a big adventure, a doctorate program, and I am starting to think that I need some new equipment. First thing about me, I am super (impressively) cheap. I have one of the now rare black Macbooks from 2008, and I have done everything in my power to avoid getting a new one. My philosophy is that it works, so why bother getting another one? However, it doesn’t work all that well. The hard drive and most of the other parts have been replaced a few times, but it’s just getting old. Programs tend to crash, it’s generally slow, etc. As much as I don’t want to, I think I may need to invest in a new computer for the next 6-8 years of my education.
However, I really hate the current Apple options. The macbook air doesn’t have a cd drive, and the Macbook pro is big and so expensive. I don’t think I can justify spending that much for a laptop.
In doing quick math I have deduced that I can buy a desktop IMac (beautiful, massive screen) and a cheaper PC laptop for the same price or less than a Macbook pro. All I really use it for is blogging, Netflix, looking at pictures of cats, word processing, and maybe running statistics programs. My questions to you, Tumblr universe, are thus: is is stupid for a grad student to invest the majority of their computer fund into a desktop? Is a macbook really that much better than it’s much cheaper, equally stylish PC cousins? Have you recently given up Apple?
These are the axes:
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Bodies are inherently valid
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Remember death
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Be ugly
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Know beauty
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It is complicated
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Empathy
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Choice
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Reconstruct, reify
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Respect, negotiate
” —Mark Aguhar (via buttfacebutthead)The situation in Syria is absolutely terrible, violent state repression. This is indisputable. However, I think that it is irresponsible to assign the word genocide to events that do not seemingly constitute genocide, especially on politically-based blogs. Available documentation suggests that what is going on in Syria is not currently classifiably as genocide. It is a violent crackdown of state repression against civilians.
Article II of the Genocide Convention defines genocide as “[A]ny of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
An example of a Syrian event that could be possible labeled genocide is the scorched earth campaign perpetrated by Assad’s government in the city of Hama in 1982. This attack targeted Sunni Muslims specifically and was intended to massacre the population directly.
Other examples of genocide: the Guatemalan state’s destruction of the Maya population and the Armenian genocide.
Good journalism is honest journalism. Hyperbole does not strengthen an argument, it delegitimizes it.
*If there is evidence of genocide that I am missing in the news reporting, please let me know and I will correct this post.
Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, March 14, 2012, discussing the whining of Fox News contributors about Game Change.
