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12 Responses to “All the News”

1. tawm Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 11:47 am

   Where is the perennial Blame Bush motif? My how time flies….

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   BR: When Bush was in office, screwing up, I placed blame on him for his failings.

   Now that its Obama making economic mistakes, I am criticisizing him.

   (Why is this so difficult to understand?)

2. GraffitiGrammarian Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 11:50 am

   How can they have left out one of the biggest stories of all: climate change??????

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   BR: The website Journalism.org monitors the news from 55 outlets every week, calculating what percent of the week’s print, television, radio, and internet reporting is devoted to each story. Our latest Transparency is a look at the totals for all the news this year, divided into categories of politics, culture, business, and plain old bad news.

   Guess its none of the above categories . . .

3. tawm Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   Hmmm, maybe my New Year’s resolution will be to figure out how to get off of permanent moderated status for my each and every post?

4. Its Me Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

   Its kind of skewed. Most are single event categories e.g. Michael Jackson, Pirates and even the Health care is a single bill (more or less).

   But the Economic Crisis is way too broad. It should have been broken into far smaller chunks. Bailout money, dollar value, unemployment, real estate loans and so forth.

   On top of that there are three separate entries related to Obama. One would have sufficed.

5. Transor Z Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

   Somali pirates >= Ted Kennedy Death
   Somali pirates > Bernie Madoff
   Somali pirates = Iraq + Pakistan

   I loved the Somali pirates story. Still fascinated by the SEAL’s head shots from one moving sea vessel to another.

6. Mark E Hoffer Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

   Its Me,

   re:

   “But the Economic Crisis is way too broad. It should have been broken into far smaller chunks. Bailout money, dollar value, unemployment, real estate loans and so forth.”

   “On top of that there are three separate entries related to Obama. One would have sufficed.”

   remember, Taxonomy is key when you’re trying to hide, or discover, what is being sought..

   http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Taxonomy

7. Its Me Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

   @ GG Says

   I beg to differ on the Climate Change issue. There is clearly a large block that denotes US Terrorism Policies. I believe this is the descriptor for Climate Change.

   The Good web site has a lot of tree hugger types blogging there. Likely not many of their readers would find Barry’s S&P charts complete annotations ever worth a second visit to the Big Picture. I guess employment and investing are what people that don’t watch TMZ do for entertainment.

8. GraffitiGrammarian Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

   If the process is simply adding up the coverage of your pre-identified categories, then it’s a pointless exercise.

   Only the categories you have recognized before you begin the process are qualifiable as news.

   So why bother?

   Let’s say I only recognize 3 categories: the economy, abortion rights and football. You’d end up with a stupid graphic, right?

   It’s still just as stupid if you recognize 50 categories, because you are bringing your own biases to defining the categories.

   You could miss a whole huge category of news that might have gotten covered a thousand times every day, simply because you didn’t create a category for it.

   Which is apparently what happened — they forgot to include climate change as a category.

   It’s a stupid exercise. It proves nothing.

9. mathman Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 6:03 am

   In the end climate change will take over our concerns (too bad it’s far too late to do anything about it).

10. bruerr Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    I think it is interesting to see the compilation presented as it is.

    There are a few instances in life where it is good to defer judgment and just take in information.

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    Thank you Naz Sahin, Serifcan Ozcan and folks at Good.

11. bruerr Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    @ tawm …” my New Year’s resolution will be to figure out how to get off of permanent moderated status for my each and every post?…”

    tawm, I think Barry has a big job moderating traffic on his website. Not saying it does not play on people’s minds. Just letting you know you are not being singled out.:)

    From my experiences, He does a good job of moderating me on long posts and filter out when I say something crappy which can happen in badly governed financial cycles, or where the economic mores of top regulators fall into a crevice of avarice with our housing market.

12. bruerr Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    @ tawm …” my New Year’s resolution will be to figure out how to get off of permanent moderated status for my each and every post?…”

    tawm, I think Barry has a big job moderating traffic on his website. Not saying it does not play on people’s minds. Just letting you know you are not being singled out.:)

    From my experiences, He does a good job of moderating me on long posts and filter out when I say something crappy which can happen in badly governed financial cycles, or when the socio-economic mores of top regulators fall into a crevice of avarice with our housing market.

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    (I think it also helps when you do not say anything too mean about Sheila Bair. Or her boyfriends at JPMorgan)
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