The New York Times – September 16, 2018
Political and technological disruption have fed off each other since the nation’s founding.
Too much “opinion,” too little “fact”
This vital balance is “out of whack.”
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Education
The Wall Street Journal – June 28, 2018
The most common leisure activity continued to be watching TV. Americans spent an average of 2 hours and 46 minutes a day doing it in 2017 ( Labor Department’s annual American time use survey)
Here’s an idea that’s potentially freeing:
A little more “being,” a little less “seeing.”
A little more “being,” a little less “seeing.”
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Reuters – June 18, 2018
Only a quarter of U.S. adults in a recent survey could fully identify factual statements – as opposed to opinion – in news stories, the Pew Research Center found in a study released on Monday.
A modern form of an old affliction:
Discriminating fact from fiction.
Discriminating fact from fiction.
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The Wall Street Journal – April 28–29, 2018
Productivity gurus and complex apps…are here to help.
A long to-do LIST: it’s easy to accrue it.
The problem is that you’re supposed to DO IT.
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The Wall Street Journal – November 7, 2017
After 55 years, 60,000 words and at least $25 million in research grants, the Dictionary of American Regional English has rung the knell, sugared off, finished out the row. (Grants and gifts have dried up)
Linguistically: a smash.
Financially: a crash.
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