Education-Communication

Covid Conspiracy Theorys

First, Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up

by Gordon Brown 31/7/24 The Guardian

Lewis and Robert Winnett, who was appointed by Lewis as editor of the Washington Post before quickly deciding not to take the job, are accused of benefiting from private investigators who broke the law. 

There is something wrong at the New York Times

by Lucian K> Truscott IV 5/3/24 Salon

Two things — check that, three things — appear to have gone off the rails at the paper we used to call the Gray Lady. First, whoever is in charge of the paper’s polls is not doing their job. Second, whoever is choosing what to emphasize in Times coverage of the campaign for the presidency is showing bias. Third, the Times is obsessed with Joe Biden’s age at the same time they’re leaving evidence of Donald Trump’s mental and verbal stumbles completely out of the news.

The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

by John Naughton 4/5/24 The Guardian

Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, had come up with the idea for a “world wide web” as a way of locating and accessing documents that were scattered all over the internet. With a small group of colleagues he envisaged, designed and implemented it in the late 1980s and eventually put the whole thing – protocols, server and browser software, HTML specification, etc. – on one of Cern’s internet servers, and in doing so changed the world.

COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories

1958 Demonstration of American Dialects/Accents

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We hear 6 speakers of standard English from different areas: Smithfield Virginia, Green Bay Wisconsin, Brooklyn New York, North Andover Massachussets, and Dallas Texas. I've never heard of some of the dialect features demonstrated in this film, and think they must have been lost by the current day.

Researchers identify seven types of fake news, aiding better detection

<embed>https://phys.org/news/2019-11-fake-news-aiding.html</embed> PhysOrg 11/15/2019

In a study, researchers narrowed down myriad examples of fake news to seven basic categories, which include false news, polarized content, satire, misreporting, commentary, persuasive information and citizen journalism. The researchers also contrasted those types of content with real news and report their findings in the current issue of American Behavioral Scientist.