Tune in tomorrow and Tuesday morning to Sirius XM Patriot from 6-9 AM, I’ll be hosting the Mike Church Show. Many thanks to Mike and Paul for the opportunity. Still finalizing the lineup of guests, but a few I’ve confirmed are CEI/Real Clear Radio Hour’s Bill Frezza on Uber and New Zealand’s economy, Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell talking about the year in media, and Aaron Houston on the state of DC pot legalization.
I trolled Anil Dash on Friday after he fretted about journalists calling the New Republic purge a “massacre” and other tropes that suggest “violence.” Here’s what he, uh, learned from the experience:
I was trying to understand why a Daily Caller editor told me to delete my Twitter account after I criticized hyperbolic reactions about @TNR
— Anil Dash (@anildash) December 5, 2014
And I realized that to folks running these outlets, to admit that *any* of them are irrelevant to most people is to admit they *all* are.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) December 5, 2014
Doesn’t mean they can’t do good work, or that they don’t contribute to the conversation. Just that they’re not the center of the world.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) December 5, 2014
He must not know the Daily Caller very well.
It’s over here at TheDC. Check it out:
TheDC: What is ExposeCorruption.org, and what convinced you to the media needed to be taken on?
Dickinson: After what happened to me, I saw the same keep happening. Over the past year media behavior seems to have been getting progressively worse. The Brendan Eich incident, him being fired from Mozilla. The Matt Taylor incident, him being forced to give a tearful apology for wearing a shirt. And also GamerGate. It just seemed like a lot of threads were coming together and that the battlefield might be ready for something like this project to succeed.
TheDC: Aren’t there already media watchdogs, like Media Matters or the Media Research Center?
Dickinson: We’re different from those other groups because we aren’t politically partisan. We don’t represent team red or team blue, we’re with Team Grey. We are partisan to the internet generation and that libertarian-inflected free-speech-valuing culture. I think a lot of people out there are especially furious with the media right now, and this latest NYT outrage will only deepen the feeling. I woke up to the NYT’s Julie Bosman’s dox in my inbox this morning. She was one of the writers of that article doxxing Darren Wilson.
(Thank you very much to J. Arthur Bloom, Prop. for the opportunity to write for The Mitrailleuse. My personal blog is Neoreaction in the Diamond Age)
The first reference to Occam’s Razor I ever saw, age 12, was in Robert Heinlein’s Have Space Suit, Will Travel
I began reading about the assassination of President Kennedy when I was 14, my interest sparked by Josiah Thompson‘s book Six Seconds in Dallas, which I found through the proven technique of a random walk through the public library stacks, scanning spines for anything that caught my eye and grabbing it. Who knows why or how these fascinations begin, but by the time I finished Thompson’s well-written and reasonable book I was hooked, leaning toward the “second gun” theory, and on the prowl for more of the seemingly endless supply of fact (and especially, fancy) on the events of November 22, 1963. (more…)
Many thanks to Dana Loesch:
Check out @salondotcom here
They said it’d be up in a week or two, on September 21st. It’s October 28th.
Technical difficulties? Or is there some other reason?
Update: Graeber thinks he won:
@Salondotcom@thebafflermag@peterthiel actually I think it makes the left look pretty good, if perhaps overly polite
— David Graeber (@davidgraeber) October 28, 2014
How ’bout the Baffler lets us decide?
