Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last couple of weeks (not necessarily a bad thing, given the circumstances), you would have come across the following buzzwords (in no particular order) that will dominate news headlines in the months to come: 1. economic tsunami2. layoff3. AIG = arrogance, incompetence and greed4. stimulus… Read More: Top 10 buzzwords in 2009 »
Here’s a good example of how the media sometimes spin stories according to their biases. Newsweek’s “The Decline of the Petro-Czar” is a blatantly pro-Western piece aimed at bashing political leaders who do not see eye-to-eye with the imperialists in America (I’m writing this last part through my own coloured lens to balance the equation).… Read More: Two different spins »
The rise in gadget popularity has prompted the invention of words such as technosexual and Crackberry. This article from The Sydney Morning Herald discusses what gadgets really say about the people that own them. Wonder what it would have said about owners of Jesus phone or Superman phone. Technorati Tags: Sydney Morning Herald gadgets Crackberry… Read More: Me, myself and my gadgets »
Here’s how a change of word can alter the nuance of a sentence. In an Economist Intelligent Unit briefing titled “Cracking down on dissent“, there is this sentence: With the Chinese economy facing the worst slowdown in two decades, paranoia about massive social unrest is mushrooming among Chinese leaders. The above sentence is obviously written… Read More: Biased writing »
It’s Christmas eve so here’s something to bring about a festive cheer in an otherwise gloomy economic climate. NYDailyNews ran an article titled “George W. Bush: The lamest duck ever?“, which features memorable photo-ops from one of the lamest ducks in presidential history. Welcome to my hanging. Indeed! Related posts:Stupid is as stupid does?Further proof… Read More: A gallery of idiocy »
FORTUNE magazine ran an article, “Look who pays for the bailout” in its November 10 issue about how high earners, not rich yet (HENRY) must starve themselves of luxuries to become wealthy. The writers of the article believe that it’s not fair that HENRYs pay a high amount of tax because they are hard working… Read More: Quit whining, HENRYs »