And confusing. Over at the New York Times, Emily Bazelon has a humongous take on freedom of speech in the era of “Big Tech”, though working my way through umpteen thousand words of vaguely authoritarian liberal hand-wringing over what we should do about people who say things Ms. Bazelon doesn’t want to hear (and doesn’t…
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“Have We Learned Anything From the Columbia Rape Case?”
“Have We Learned Anything From the Columbia Rape Case?” asks a headline in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Well, since the accused rapist was found, you know, not guilty, I’d say the answer is “no,” as far as the New York Times goes. Unless they want to change their head to “Have We Learned…
Emily Bazelon, treading lightly
Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon, speaking of le affaire Snowden, minces a few mots while remarking that “Snowden’s revelations seem to catch Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in misleading testimony.” Here’s the testimony that, to Bazelon, “seems” to be “misleading.” “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds…
Emily Bazelon—“Torture is bad, but it does make for riveting cinema”
Oy vey. I may have to see Zero Dark Thirty, the “controversial” new thriller about the murder of Osama Bin Laden, just to make my way through all the bullshit that’s been piled up around it. Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon contributes a profoundly disappointing take on the film, which, unlike me, she has seen….