An editorial, “We’ll Have to Check, Sir,“ in this morning’s Times criticizes the apparent difficulties in purging incorrect information from the government’s terrorist “watch list.”
Disclosure as Tactic and Strategy
Robert Frank has a nice piece on the “full-disclosure principle” in today’s NYT Business section. It’s called “To Disclose or Not? Ask the Frogs.” Give
The Dominant Ideology Hypothesis
The more I look at the scholarship and journalism (actually, a lot of the former is just a step or so beyond the latter) on
It’s Been a While…
since the last posting here. What’s the main take-away from that observation? There are two: one, last semester I was wicked busy, and two, the
Courts and the Information Order
Dan Rather is suing CBS and affiliated corporate entities for $70 million. Ostensibly, it’s a contract case: CBS promised him something and he says they
Virginia Tech Report and Information
A report on last year’s Virginia Tech shootings was released last week (full report | executive summary). It highlights a number of sociology of information
