If you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Fake News and the Digital Duopoly
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, TechnologyMiddlebury’s Principles Require Discipline – Letters
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftThese comments in Letters to the Editor, are very, very good. ========== WSJ Letters to the Editor, 3/14/2017 Jay Parini and Keegan Callanan, professors at Middlebury College, have set out principles for their institution following the campus mob action that prevented Charles Murray “from communicating with his audience.” (“Middlebury’s Statement of Principle,” op-ed, March 7). Setting out principles is the easy part. The challenge... Read more
McCarthyism At Middlebury
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI hope that Mr Henninger is correct, but I am not betting a lot of money on it. ===== Daniel Henniger, WSJ 3/11/2017 The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the... Read more
Middlebury’s Statement Of Principle
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, The LeftWhere is the left leaning press when they could really provide some support to the concept of a truly liberal society?? They REALLY should be ashamed that they do not cover this adequately. WSJ 3/7/2017 By Jay Parini And Keegan Callanan Middlebury, Vt. On Thursday roughly 100 of our 2,500 students prevented a controversial visiting speaker, Charles Murray, from communicating... Read more
