Two Perspectives

I am always amazed at how the media can spin any item of news to be either good or bad depending on their whims. I covered this topic in an earlier essay, but some new figures have reminded me of this. Recently, it has been reported that the...... (Click here to read full post)

I ahve written before about the fact that sometimes the media focuses on one aspect of an event, and then chooses to present a report on a disaster, when, in reality most events are much less clearly either a problem or a benefit. In the case at...... (Click here to read full post)

The subprime loan market provides an interesting example of a manufactured crisis. Partly the fault of government interference before the fact, and partly the result of press hype afterward, the "crisis" is really nothing of the kind. Unless, of...... (Click here to read full post)