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Paul Craig Roberts: How Elites and Media Minimize Dissent and Bury Truth

How Elites and Media Minimize Dissent and Bury Truth Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene. Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, has demonstrated time and again the extraordinary ability to reexamine settled issues and show that the accepted conclusion was incorrect. …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth

Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth Posted: 03 May 2013 04:41 PM PDT Can emerging technologies aid in filtering out the untrusted and unverified chattering of the masses? Using the recent Boston Marathon bombings as an example where this kind of technology would be useful, the MIT Technology Review article “Preventing Misinformation from Spreading …

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Theophillis Goodyear: Time for an Open-Source Truth Blitz on CNN and the Boston Bombing Story — Calling All Bloggers — Kick the Crap Out of CNN, Fox Et Al on Boston NOW — May the Force Be With You!

This is a response to Owl’s post Owl: Public Awake, Major Media Shredded — the Revolution IS Being Televised! CNN is having ratings problems. If their subterfuge in Boston becomes common knowledge they will loose credibility and even more viewers. It would be a shot fired across the bow of every other news network. All …

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Michael S. Kearns: Frederick Nietzsche on Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn (in English: “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense“, also called “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense“[1]) is an (initially) unpublished work of Friedrich Nietzsche written in 1873, one year after The Birth of Tragedy.[2] It deals …

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