Tag Archives: journalism

Arts and Letters Daily has some worse links than usual today…

1. Carlin Romano has written a screed against Heidegger that I skimmed the first two paragraphs of, felt sick, and immediately stopped reading. I’m not linking to it here – his essential point is that Heidegger was a Nazi and shouldn’t be taken seriously, and recent scholarship seems to show how much hate he was …

October 22, 2009 – 9:32 am | By ashok | Posted in media, philosophy | Tagged | Comments (0)

Thomas Jefferson On the Nature of News

Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, Letter of June 14, 1807 I thought the above letter had some sections worth sharing, so here goes (words in italics are Jefferson’s): 1. I think there does not exist a good elementary work on the organization of society into civil government: I mean a work which presents in one …

February 15, 2008 – 6:22 am | By ashok | Posted in media, politics | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Apollo and Journalism: On Hölderin’s "Descriptive Poetry"

Die Beschreibende Poësie Friedrich Hölderin Wißt! Apoll ist der Gott der Zeitungsschreiber geworden Und sein Mann ist, wer ihm treulich das Factum erzählt. Comment: I’m translating the title as Michael Hamburger does – “Descriptive Poetry.” The two lines read for me: Know! Apollo has become the God of newspaper writers, and one is his, who …

October 4, 2007 – 1:43 am | By ashok | Posted in media, poetry | Tagged | Comments (1)

Rant: The Cult of The Expert, Or The Media Is Problematic In Exactly What They Get Right

An enormous amount of learning is repetition and the reciting that goes along with it. In complaining about the media being biased, many of us forget that journalists do go to people considered the expert in their subject and repeat that opinion, complete with the facts supporting that opinion, in their work. They’re learning from …

August 29, 2007 – 12:48 pm | By ashok | Posted in media | Tagged , | Comments (1)