Comments on: For Want of a Google Search, Paul Mulshine Was Lost

By: Rizki

Rizki — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:30:42 +0000

great article….

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Canon Camera Reviews — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:38:05 +0000

Im pretty sure all the “investigative reporters” evidently froze to death in Wasilla. Other than that I can’t remember any such reporting in the past year or so.

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funny videos — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:11:44 +0000

@Eugene Dillenburg Both were identical, well spot on ;)

Happy new year to all :)

By: Edy

Edy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:14:15 +0000

These opinion just the kind of arrogant-clueless, Even though Moonshine making an elitist argument but I think it is a careless construction. So far we find Google can search so many things that we search

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:15:51 +0000

Don’t let ‘em get to you, dude. Are you a manor are you a mouse?

By: Jim O'Sullivan

Jim O'Sullivan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:43:12 +0000

I’m quite confused by now. I thought an eggcorn was distinguishable from a malapropism in that an eggcorn is something that makes sense itself, even though it changes the meaning – intentionally or not – of the phrase on which it is based. But, I follow Eric’s link to discover that “eggcorn” is supposed to be an example of an eggcorn: it’s the very derivation of the word. But how does “eggcorn” make sense? Eggs do not have corns, nor do corns have eggs. At least not to my knowledge. Isn’t “eggcorn,” then, a malapropism and not an eggcorn?

Why do I let stuff like this bother me?

By: kcom

kcom — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:55:31 +0000

"Because that ultimate judging of the meaning and import of all of those little packets of information is supposed to be OUR job, our privilege, our role in participatory governance. Tell us what’s happened, we’ve always asked of the newsies, so that we can make informed choices."

Very well said, bobby b. You are entirely correct. When news types move from giving us information on what's happened (i.e. the facts) and instead start telling us what to think and what to conclude from the facts (which they frequently just gloss over) then they are stealing from us. It's our privilege to make up our own minds based on a full set of information and it's our right as free citizens to participate in the governance of the country. We don't need j-school mediocrities making our decisions for us. That's not what we hired them for.

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pedants 'r' us — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:23:36 +0000

As long as we want to get all pedant-y... A commenter on another blog (an Aussie) remarked,

"Millions of American can’t even pronounce “pundit,” or spell it for that matter."

Perhaps not, but I’m sure many of them would know how to make a word a plural.

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Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:24:22 +0000

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