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51% of viewers cannot recall a single item of news a few minutes after viewing a news program on television, and we can only retain 20% of the information in a fictional televised news story. 21% can’t remember any items within one hour of broadcast.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
station,” the reporter and editors at the Times left out one critical fact that would have been known to them all: the “semi-official news agency” cited as the article’s main source was one of the Nazis’ central propaganda organs. In reality, by 1939 there was no such thing as a “semi-official news agency” in Germany. Propaganda minister Joseph Goe
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Through almost the end of the 19th-century, the revenue model for most newspapers was subscriptions from party loyalists when a paper like The Press Democrat meant just that: the Democratic paper in that town giving that faction’s version of events.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
9月FOMC---Don't fight the Fed
本次美联储以11票支持1票反对的比例通过降息50bp的政策决议，点阵图中表现出鹰派指引，对25年底利率预测的中位数为3.4%（市场预期在3%以下）
因为联储重回前瞻指引（或者说front the curve），所以有以下分析： https://t.co/Jl7kzp1hfX
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Joe Maceda • 3 cards
painfully clear—this time with the glaring clarity of hindsight—that just when the country and the world most needed the triumph of truth from America’s flagship newspaper, the Gray Lady provided nothing more than a deadly string of devastating failure.