Crass public discourse: Time to push back?
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The impending return of Don Imus to the airwaves comes as some see a desire for moderation.
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Media & professional: The latest race row may be another embarrassment just as the broadcaster needs to show its strengths.
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Valleywag is mostly puff pieces. I guess they're writing about people who, for one reason or another, they don't want to offend. Typical of business press. Don't screw your sources or else they'll dry up. Don't speak ill of Steve Jobs or else no cover picture for you. So, it's reasonable to conclude -- if you read something unbelievably nice about someone in Valleywag, that person is a source. Thing is, they're reduced to attacking about five people. And the flow is miniscule. A pointer from VW is worth about 20 hits. In other words, hire a business reporter to do VW, and you get Infoworld, about 25 years too late.
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While itâs always interesting to watch two equally opinionated groups go at it, particularly over something as fundamental as whether Linux is âworth itâ; the current fight is comical at best.
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Cell phones in public are annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Readers fire back in response to five outrageous market calls.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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I'm a contrarian. It's natural. It's what happens when you're born black and male in New Orleans. You grow up questioning authority and challenging conventional wisdom. It's both a mode of survival and a disease. I have it bad. I'm addicted to argument.
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Time is running out to resolve one of the most critical debates in Western society.
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Oh, I don&#39;t mean the factual debate about John Kerry&#39;s war record. I&#39;m referring to the argument over what sort of speech should be permitted during an election campaign.
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Comment is free: Ian Buruma: Repressive regimes are playing on our colonial guilt, but we must stand up for those values to which oppressed people aspire
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Seeking to play down tensions, candidates, and former president, tone down comments.
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Comment is free: Carol Sarler: It's time to stop mocking the States. They could sure teach the Brits a thing or two.
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Comment is free: Sunny Hundal: The Tories have stolen a march on the internet. It's time for left-liberals to get organised online.
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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Is it time to turn down the volume on TV news? A handful of developments this fall suggest a brewing backlash against opinionated news, most personified by those cable segments that set people up to argue political points, or outshout each other.
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Opinion Stepping in and taking charge