Interview With Captain D.
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Check it out: Sometime between 1 - 2 p.m. EST, our local National Public Radio affiliate, WLRN, is going to run an interview I conducted last week with Captain Disillusion for South Florida Artsbeat. (Ordinarily I review theater for the program, but the Captain deserves a segment of his own.) If you’re in South Florida, you can listen in at 91.3 FM. If you’re south of Key West, west of the Everglades, north of Palm Beach, or east of the Atlantic, you can listen to the streaming audio here.
How To Give Progressivism a Bad Name In Your Already Not-Very-Progressive Southern State
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A journalist friend once remarked to me that “fair and balanced” reportage is an impossible ideal because the two terms are at war. To be fair is to tell the truth as best you can. To be balanced is to consult a flat-Earther for a counterpoint every time you write a story about a shuttle launch. This is a fine distinction, and one that I'm guessing the good folks at Atlanta Progressive News failed to grok while attempting to justify the firing of senior staff writer Jonathan Springston because of his unseemly attachment to... objectivity.
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Randi at TED
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Randi got back from TED on Monday, full of that special vim and vigor that only TED can provide. The experience prompted him to revisit his own TED address from 2007. He'd never watched that video before, because he gave the speech in the immediate aftermath of severe heart surgery and had always assumed his performance wasn't up to snuff. Not so, as it turns out. Take a look below, and hear about an interesting, short-lived conflict that arose from Randi's lecture...
Flogging the adverts.
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I had intended my recent Swift article to be an empowering piece on personal responsibility. I also wanted to bust a few myths about advertising’s alleged powers of control. Judging from many of the comments, it seems that some readers took the piece for a unilateral defense of marketing, abuses included, and a disavowal of marketers’ responsibilities for what and how they sell.
D.J. Grothe on Skepticality
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Derek of Skepticality catches up with D.J. Grothe and talks about his new role, and some new directions and changes that he wants to make to the JREF to focus more on educating the public and pushing critical thought to the populace.
To listen and comment, visit Skepticality.
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