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David Leonhardt’s Saucy Op-Analysis On the Healthcare Endgame In Congress
A link to end the night.
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The Trust Paradox
For American print media, trust is getting harder and harder to come by. As the Internet takes over the world of media, infiltrating all forms of mass communication with its efficiency and omnipresence, it is more and more difficult for the newspapers to hang on to their readers.
Last year, Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times said in a speech in London: “At places where editors and publishers gather, the mood these days is funereal. Editors ask one another, ‘How are you?,’ in that sober tone one employs with friends who have just emerged from rehab or a messy divorce.”
Yes, my friends, things are indeed looking grim and any day now the nation’s newspapers may have to run their own obituaries.
According to a May 2009 Zogby International Interactive survey, the trustworthiness of national newspapers is significantly lower than that of the Internet (15.8% to 37.2%, respectively), yet …
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Krugman Holds Monopoly on Mainstream Media
In a perfect world, politicians would be the champions of the people, not the butt of David Letterman’s late night routines.
In a perfect world, all media would be unbiased, and Fox News and MSNBC would be reporting on what the healthcare bill actually says, not what Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi tell you it says.
In a perfect world, mainstream media would consult more than one economist for insight on current events.
But of course, this isn’t a perfect world.
The name of that one economist who seems to have all the answers is Paul Krugman, the self-proclaimed liberal who writes a twice-weekly column and blog for the New York Times.
My beef with Paul Krugman is not personal. While ideologically I don’t always agree with him, he’s a lot smarter than I am. He has a B.A. in economics from Yale, a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, …
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Surgeon General Nominee Could Change Face of Position
Since his inauguration in January, President Obama has not had the obstacle-free path he likely hoped for with his Cabinet nominees. From Tom Daschle to Judd Gregg, a roadblock always seemed to appear with one of the president’s choices.
When it came to Surgeon General, the story was much of the same. Obama reportedly wanted CNN’s Sanjay Gupta to take the job. The problem? Gupta didn’t want it.
Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin
Now, seven months into his presidency, Obama has made his choice for Surgeon General, in a decision that, it seems, will have more repercussions – mostly involving public exposure – than are usually associated with the office in question.
Jeffrey Levin, the Executive Director of Trust for America’s Health, said that Obama’s delay in making a choice was largely unimportant, and that the focus …
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Pity the poor internship-less rich kid
Our Sam Pape asks today:
I’m curious to see the long-term impact of a lack of internships. Will the classes of 2010, 2011, and 2012 struggle even more to get jobs?
Well, the short answer is that the best-case-scenario job situation for any college graduate in the forseeable future amounts to this. (And he’s one of the lucky ones.)
More broadly, though, job difficulties for recent graduates are not as abnormal or alarming as Sam implies. Finding a first full-time job is never easy, in any economy. The bubble in things like technology and finance since the 1980s made it unusually easy for a certain set of college graduates to make easy money, yes, but that was the exception rather than the norm. The natural order of things is for new grads to struggle. More after the jump:
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