This is good, quick information. Easy to digest, so I thought I’d pass it along. It comes in the form of an easy to read info graphic.
Some of it is common sense, but you know how that goes out the window sometimes.
Enjoy. How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft Online.
Look at the two headlines in today’s New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. One says that “Tepid Job Growth Fuels Worry” while other says, “Job Creation Is Still Steady Despite Worry”.
So, what is it…fueling worry because the jobs growth is tepid or is job creation steady despite of some sort of worry? By the way, the first headline FUELS worry, second headline is a little more positive while there is some worry, although apparently not fueled. All this stirred up (do I dare say, fueled?) a memory of how I nearly had my head taken off by a college professor. It was my Journalism Ethics professor and he was pissed. You see, we were talking about the press….a journalist…being objective. I contended that a journalist could not purely objective. Never going to happen. No way. Man, we went round and round.
My point is this: In being objective, what do you use in an attempt to be objective? Everything you’ve been subjected to in your life up to that point.
For example: My wife and I were taking a nice, after-dinner stroll in mid-town Manhattan back in September of 2012. It was about 10:30p. There was a long line of guys selling knock-off purses, (Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton–oh my!) etc along the sidewalk. They had tarps on the ground, roughly 6′ x 6′, with the bags piled on top.
Suddenly, three police vans and two unmarked police cars pulled up and screeched to a halt. Out jumped about 10-policemen, running at full-speed to catch/tackle/horse-collar the guys selling the illegal goods. Somehow, a few of the guys noticed the cars before they arrived and started to fold in all four corners of their tarps and take off like a bat outta hell.
My wife was startled and stunned. I took out my iPhone and started shooting video. There were people running everywhere. Police tackling guys. Some guys getting away by abandoning their goods. Others freaking out and running into the side of a cement barrier protecting a fountain, falling down with the cops pouncing on them.
I saw it as a pretty-cool, well-planned raid that turned out to be fairly effective.
My wife saw it as a violent, wild west kinda free-for-all. It shook her up, not in a scared kinda way, but her adrenaline and nerves. She had never seen anything like that in person. I was still shooting video with a very steady hand.
If both of us were to file a quick newspaper story about the event, each story would be vastly different, yet of the same event. Why? Because I’ve seen raids, fights, busts before. I have been subjected to them before. My wife had not. Whatever a person’s ‘social’ DNA has picked up since birth informs your ability to be objective –from the subjective experiences in that person’s life.
Reading my wife’s account, a reader would assume it was a violent wild-west, free-for-all in mid-town while my report would be of a fairly routine, effective bust of counterfeiters. Sure some heads were busted, but it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary —unless you’re my wife.
Bottom line- the subjective informs the objective, therefore one can never be completely objective. Ever.
This is how it is offered in journalism school: “It is often said that editorials are subjective –opinion based on events, facts, etc…and that reporting is objective –reporting the facts from many sources and is intended to be unbiased.”
Just take a second look at the headlines in the picture at the top of the page.
Here is the mad genius, chatting tonight in the NYTimes offices.
I love the fact that our President tweeted thanks before giving his victory speech. Such a sign of the times. Also the fact that Mitt Romney didn’t tweet a thanks for all of his supporters shows the difference in the candidates, the campaign and what may have tipped the election a bit.
Team Obama’s ability to reach women and young voters via social media. Wait until the books are written on this election…the good, researched books…and they will reveal an excellent social media ground-game by Team Obama. President Obama out-tweeted Mitt Romney 8-1. In addition, watch it copied and improved upon by candidates in the next presidential race.
This is a fascinating collection of all the pundits, who are usually wrong more than 50% of the time (which you could do better by flipping a coin, literally AND seriously) and who they predicted to win the Presidential Election.
The guy at the top of the list, Nate Silver, is the only guy you should ever listen to about serious issues because of the way he comes to his conclusions. Oh, and you can’t call him a pundit. Because he’s not. He’s a an American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer. He predicted 49 out of 50 states in 2008 and all Senate Races. And predicted tonight.
Read just the first 50-pages of his excellent book, “The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t” and you’ll never listen to a pundit again or at least without laughing.
Pundit accountability: The official 2012 election prediction thread.
Here are some of the best photos from today’s election, so far. Most of them are from the East Coast…cuz they opened first.
Hopefully, we’ll get some cool pics from those of us here on the West Coast.
These are from a CNN link.
More later.
So now you have no excuse when you say, “When is my polling place open?”.
No matter your state, here is every single state’s time of opening and closing.
So, get your ass out there and vote!!
On the eve of our great nation’s Presidential Election (and more)as the candidates along with Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z and others finish up their final day of campaigning, I thought it would be appropriate to pass along the TOP 10 GREATEST MOMENTS OF THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, AKA, PFV –Politicians’ Funniest Videos.
Please click on the link below to see all ten…
The 10 Greatest Moments Of The 2012 Campaign | ThinkProgress.
Not sure if you have heard of Nate Silver. For starters, he correctly predicted the winner in 49 of the 50 states back in the 2008 Presidential Election. Oh by the way, he also correctly predicted the winner of ALL 35 SENATE RACES IN 2008.
Silver is an uber statistician, to say the least.
So, read the damn article I’ve linked for you…and glean some knowledge as we head into Tuesday’s Doozy of a Day.
The ENTIRE page is FILLED with all kinds of stats, predictions, trends as it relates to TDD.
What I like is that Nate gets flak from both camps, Repubs n’ Dems. Romney n’ Obama.
Also, take a look-see at all the info down the right side of the page. As of now, President Obama wins 307.2 Electoral votes, Romney 230.8.
State and National Polls Come Into Better Alignment – NYTimes.com.
The United States Track n’ Field women are EN FUEGO!! Allyson Felix’s win tonight shows how, if you never give up on your dream (AND work incredibly hard), your dreams come TRUE.
Nice piece written by Tim Layden.
Allyson Felix wins women’s 200-meter gold – Tim Layden – SI.com.
