Tag: News


  • News stories

    Something I like about podcasts is the storytelling. Information is better digested in a story. A news article about x event is okay, but it often is a horserace set of facts intended to thread the needle of accuracy vs first. Breaking news doesn’t typically contain context and meaning. Podcasts and TikTok content creators often…

  • I see quite a bit of worry about how the mainstream media doesn’t cover Trump and Biden the same way. Biden makes mistakes in the way he speaks and its breathlessly covered for weeks. For months Trump made the same mistakes and barely a story. Why? The news covered Trump’s mistakes and stumbles in 2016…

  • As a Valdosta State University student, we nicknamed the student paper the Speculator. Incorrectly reading between the lines were their specialty. Grammatical errors and spelling mistakes were part of their standard. But it was amusing to see them go after the administration. Not so much to be reported on when I made big mistakes. As…

  • It drives me nuts to listen to 24-hour network news cover an important event such as the Mumbai attacks earlier. Give me facts. I got better information off the Twitter search for Mumbai than 30 minutes of CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC.

  • This guy claims to have a video of an alien looking through a window. If NASA does find life on Mars, then would anyone believe it?

  • Are you less violent than a third grader? Probably so.

  • Who knows this better than a Swedish father whose son-in-law plans to divorce his daughter? I’m thinking he should have thought twice before sending an email to US authorities his son-in-law is involved with Al-Qaida. A defamation lawsuit seems only the start to his problems now.

  • Originally posted to DNA for Everyone. So, 60 Minutes has broadcast a report on the tracing of DNA. Leslie made a statement, "The are just two bits of DNA which remain pure. The Y chromosome which passes directly from father to son. And something called mitochondrial DNA which passes unchanged from mother to child." Logically…

  • NPR : Mother and Son Offer Transracial Adoption Insights: Morning Edition, July 23, 2007 · When Judy Stigger and her husband decided to adopt, they chose children who very obviously didn’t look like them. “If you’re a very private person, this is probably very hard to do because people are curious and do ask how…