MetaFilter posts tagged with editorial

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a robot made out of meat — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:32:23 -0800

Tim Kreider, known to MeFi for his cartoons and essays is now regularly contributing to the Happy Days blog at NYT. His latest essay The Referendum has what you'd expect of a cartoonist, mastery of the one and two liner and getting to a relevant point quickly.

End Disposable Marriage

smoothvirus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:59:27 -0800

Leah Ward Sears, former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, on the destruction of fatherhood in Western society. This may sound like heresy, but I believe the United States and a host of Western democracies are engaged in an unintended campaign to diminish the importance of marriage and fatherhood. By refusing to do everything we can to stem the rising rate of divorce and unwed childbearing, our country often isolates fathers (and sometimes mothers) from their children and their families.

It ends when you're dead

klangklangston — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:27:06 -0800

Tim Kreider's editorial cartoons have that sort of vulgarity, puerility, absurdity, topicality, pith, bile, and self-awareness that help me get through the unending despair of reading the news every day. (He also draws great faces.)

The only editorial cartoon worth reading

KokuRyu — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:14:05 -0800

Kelly returns. Ward Sutton (aka "Kelly") and his wonderfully sublime editorial cartoons are back in the Onion. Sutton's website. Sutton is so dead-on that his Kelly cartoons leave many confused. Interview of Mark and Ward Sutton at Mother Jones.

Cartoons about Cartoons about Cartoons

blahblahblah — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:15:47 -0800

Meta-cartoon-filter: Can't get enough international incident in your funny pages? Dan Cagle has collected cartoons about the cartoon controversy. And, as the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest starts getting entries, a group of Israeli comics artists have launched their own anti-Semitic cartoon contest. "We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!"

But Main Street's still all cracked and broken... Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!

Afroblanco — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:43:02 -0800

Ray Bradbury proposes monorail-bulding in LA.
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Wikitorials

Saucy Intruder — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:19:21 -0800

The rareified land of op-ed is the latest section of the big-city daily to see upheaval. A few weeks back, outgoing NYT ombudsman Dan Okrent and professorial columnist Paul Krugman waged an all-out snarkfest over the accuracy of Krugman's statistical references. As Okrent intimates, should op-ed columnists be subject to the same fact-checking standards as reporters? And how much should the views of one columnist be taken to represent the views of the paper? The Los Angeles Times is shaking up its model by allowing editorial board members to openly dissent from op-ed columns, effectively turning philosophical pronouncements into policy debates. But the most interesting thing to come out of the redesign, to be launched next week, is wikitorials, the op-ed that Anyone Can Edit. Disaster in the making, or the new face of journalistic opinion?

Errol Morris != Morris the Cat

furtive — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:18:29 -0800

Errol Morris : respected filmmaker, editorialist, grump, and creator of some great commercials [QT]. The Sharp series is noteworthy for him straying from his usual non-fiction work. His site is chock full of interesting stuff for a Saturday surf.

Does a bear shit in the woods? Of course it does.

pardonyou? — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 08:43:42 -0800

Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is. By Daniel Okrent, New York Times ~~Ombudsman~~ Public Editor. (reg. req'd)

Viva La Revolution, my billionaire comrade!

limitedpie — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:51:01 -0800

Ted Turner is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore: "the government [is] not doing its job. The role of the government ought to be like the role of a referee in boxing, keeping the big guys from killing the little guys."

eh?

casarkos — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:43:07 -0800

Words: Woe & Wonder The CBC explains and debates usage from a Canadian-journalism standpoint - for example, why the Iraqi ex-leader is referred to by his first name and whether to capitalize this place.

Could we actually lose the war on terror?

y2karl — Sun, 02 May 2004 12:30:05 -0800

Lesser Evils

The chief ethical challenge of a war on terror is relatively simple -- to discharge duties to those who have violated their duties to us. Even terrorists, unfortunately, have human rights. We have to respect these because we are fighting a war whose essential prize is preserving the identity of democratic society and preventing it from becoming what terrorists believe it to be. Terrorists seek to provoke us into stripping off the mask of law in order to reveal the black heart of coercion that they believe lurks behind our promises of freedom. We have to show ourselves and the populations whose loyalties we seek that the rule of law is not a mask or an illusion. It is our true nature.

let them eat fossil fuels

specialk420 — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:42:49 -0800

washington post editorial mocks european heat wave via the newly reskinned dangerousmeta.com
and vis a vis the thousand of deaths (primarily the elderly) and fires attributed to the heat wave. is there an especially warm place in hell reserved for the author? and who might it be?

The congealing pot

rainbaby — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:21:23 -0800

Americans pay lip service to diversity says David Brooks in The Atlantic. Though we talk about the melting pot, we tend to group ourselves with similar people. Do you really care enough about diversity to actively seek it out? Is metafilter a virtual example of this phenomenon?

Tending the Flame of Democracy

fold_and_mutilate — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:21:52 -0800

"Our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive 'half slave and half free'" (alternative non-PDF link). "Understanding the real interests and deep opinions of the American people is the first thing. And what are those? That a Social Security card is not a private portfolio statement but a membership ticket in a society where we all contribute to a common treasury so that none need face the indignities of poverty in old age without that help. That tax evasion is not a form of conserving investment capital but a brazen abandonment of responsibility to the country. That income inequality is not a sign of freedom-of-opportunity at work, because if it persists and grows, then unless you believe that some people are naturally born to ride and some to wear saddles, it's a sign that opportunity is less than equal. That self-interest is a great motivator for production and progress, but is amoral unless contained within the framework of community. That the rich have the right to buy more cars than anyone else, more homes, vacations, gadgets and gizmos, but they do not have the right to buy more democracy than anyone else."
Bill Moyers "tends the flame of democracy."

Feudal States of America Democracy lost

thedailygrowl — Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:26:36 -0800

The Feudal States of America? Timely article from Thom Hartmann called The Real War - On American Democracy. "Those of us who still believe in republican democracy would have "We, The People" make the decisions through representatives we've elected without the feudal influence of corporate money. We realize that "big government" is, indeed, a menace when it's no longer responsive to its own people, as happened in Germany and Russia in the last century - and is happening today in America under the neoconservatives."

He almost sounds sincere.

elwoodwiles — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:07:41 -0800

Everyone in America, including me, has been driven completely insane by this war. Neal Pollack once again graces us with his opinions of America, freedom and war. Really, give it a chance

Hey, guess what? Shut up.

raaka — Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:45:45 -0800

Do us all a favor and shut up. You're for the war? Wrote an essay about it? Good, good. Good for you. Guess what? Shut up about it. Thanks. Oh, you're against the war? Fantastic. Wrote a poem about it? Find the nearest closet and tell it to the coats. Yea, that's right. Shut it.

A refreshing read

sparky — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:28:02 -0800

A refreshing read With all the bad news and fear in the air lately, I found this article to be hopeful. I hope that merits a post.

Briton questions veracity of news about the USA

lerrup — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:13:09 -0800

I know its the Guardian but does the US media really show such contempt? Anyone got any examples?

specialk420 — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:19:35 -0800

"if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture" a word from bill moyers via drudge on the party now in control of the US government - and a word from garrison kiellor on one of its newest members complete text here. anyone else uneasy with the direction the county seems to be headed?

homunculus — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:10:03 -0800

"Why isn't Burma on Bush's 'Axis of Evil' list?" A fair question considering the threat to its neighbors from its drugs and weapons trades, its nuclear ambitions, and its continuing horrible treatment of its own people. And though Aung San Suu Kyi was released shortly after Kurlantzick's article was written, the junta still has not held substantive talks with her, but they have continued with their plans to build a nuclear reactor (perhaps they're looking for a promotion from the measly 'Axis of Occasionally Evil'.)

semmi — Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:18:29 -0800

An Editorial from Jane's, 9/11: in search of context and meaning "Fiction, non-fiction, news, news analysis and opinion... And unfortunately we continually mix and merge these groupings, using them in similar ways and often believing them to contain similar weight and importance." "We now tend to respond to the news rather than attempting to get behind it and create policy."

Fat Buddha — Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:14:47 -0800

100 albums you should chuck out. While I wouldn't necessarily agree with all this blokes selections, he is very, very funny. I can barely believe it hasn't been posted before, I searched and it's not there.

electro — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:47:18 -0800

High Finance Run Amok [latimes free reg req] is a Kevin Phillips editorial on the "financialization" of the US economy. "As the financial sector, in short, became too important to fail, the Fed and the Treasury abandoned market economics to embrace socialization of credit risk. No other sector of the U.S. economy, save possibly defense, received such governmental assistance."