Friday, February 05, 2010

Cook a meal for your friends

Posted by Mickey Z on 02/05 at 03:20 PM
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  1. Hi all, I think that because I learnt a lot of words and how to use them through reading, I can come across better with words. There are some words I don’t know how to pronounce because I’ve never heard them said aloud. Casuist is one of them.

    NPR received 1600 emails, 100 phone calls and 108 messages on their website after their shoddy obituary for the late great Howard Zinn. They’ve (almost) apologised!

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  02/05  at  04:33 PM

  2. I fail to understand why anyone listens to NPR.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/05  at  05:29 PM

  3. I think the same thing about the BBC. In the run-up to the “2nd” gulf War their “journalism” was awful. When Bush Jr came to London for the 1st time there was a march/demo. The organisers said 400,000 people took part, the police said over 200,000. The BBC (in a half hour prog) said around 100,000...then 15 mins later, “tens of thousands”...then 15 mins later, “thousands”.
    I heard that a poll in the U.S. voted the most trusted news outlet..as Fox.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  02/05  at  05:37 PM

  4. I have never been able to properly explain my horror of the telephone.
    “An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep their distance” as Ambrose Bierce described it. To me it’s like talking to someone without a face.
    Writing on the net is not treated like the immediate communication that it is, which I think is why it leads to such loud misunderstanding.

    Captcha sez “land”. Horses! Horses! HORSES!

    Posted by Mew from clophill  on  02/05  at  06:19 PM

  5. Hello Mew. I’m digging the Patti Smith reference.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/05  at  06:21 PM

  6. Rick...regarding the BBC ... can i recommend the podcast interview i did with a professor who studeis the bbc and has written books with noam etc....

    http://bit.ly/bEqeky

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/05  at  06:25 PM

  7. The NPR reporter here is a real local celebrity. All the English mags and blogs go overboard to show respect where they usually wouldn’t. Like NPR are the bastion of true journalism and caring.

    Posted by Andy from Shanghai  on  02/05  at  10:35 PM

  8. #6 Thanks Michael for the podcast recommendation. The internet has definitely helped to give people access to new sources of news. There is always the difficulty that small media will have to rely on the AP and Reuters behemoths though.

    Al Jazeera and Telesur are sharing news these days, that should shake the CNN Espanol viewing figures in Latin America.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  02/06  at  07:01 AM

  9. I’ll be putting up a new post soon: 3 new PG articles.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  07:16 AM

  10. Okay, a new post is up. Plenty to read and vote for.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  07:27 AM

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