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- President Obama Still Has The Media Advantage
“If somebody pulled up a Rolls-Royce to me and said, ‘Get in,’ I'd get in it, too.” Bill Clinton’s metaphor of the media as Barack Obama’s chauffer to the White House was probably the most astute remark about the 2008 presidential race. Obama embodied the antidote to the media’s liberal and racial guilt that had been pent-up since the 1960s, and it wasn’t about to pass up the chance to help elect him. The gushing over Obama by television personalities like Chris Matthews (“I felt this thrill going up my leg”) wasn’t as offensive as later on in the campaign when he had bested Hillary Clinton and journalists started showing up at his rallies with their families, in awe of the candidate they were covering. 。。u0026quot;誰かが私にはロールスロイスをプルアップする場合は、言ったで入手し、私もその中に得ると思います
- Michael Tomasky: We're number 7 (out of 7), rah rah
It was often said by conservatives, back during the healthcare debate, that all the polls showing that 84% or whatever of people with coverage were perfectly happy with it showed that there wasn't a problem. It was and is difficult to rebut because there was a small element of truth to it and it's the kind of seemingly common-sensical claim that shuts down arguments.The only critique of it is that people are satisfied with what they have provided they don't know what other people have. For example, if you drive a Chevrolet Aveo and aren't aware that other people drive Lexuses and Acuras and BMWs, you'll be perfectly happy, because the Aveo is perfectly fine little car.So out comes a new report from the Commonwealth Fund studying the healthcare systems of seven advanced nations. It ranks the seven nations - Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States - on care, access, efficiency, equity and life expectancy. And then it looks at cost.Naturally, the US is dead last and has the highest cost. We spend $7,290 per person per year. No other country spends even $4,000. In the 12 categories, the US ranks sixth or seventh in nine of them. Never higher than fourth. The UK, incidentally, ranks first or second in seven categories (evidence of this study's obviously socialistic bias, I suppose). The Netherlands ranked first overall.Of course, our conservative US commenters will...well, let's just see. To extend our metaphor from above, the best way for people in power to convince Aveo drivers that they should not hanker for better cars is not really to tout the virtues of the Chevrolet, although they would do a little of that, but rather to besmirch and defame the makers of the Lexuses and Acuras and BMWs and others as un-Americ それは頻繁に保守し、戻って医療の議論中に、すべての投票が表示さと言われ、84％以上何が報道の人々の完全に満足して問題があることが示されたされた
- Bevy of Black Swans Or Just A Flock of Seagulls?
It’s been fashionable in recent weeks to marvel at the vigor of the stock market despite the unusual number of “Black Swan” events taking place around the globe, but I’m not buying into that particular ornithological metaphor. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it derives from an expression that was popular amongst medieval Londoners that referred to an event whose occurrence was believed to be impossible. それは世界中の場所を取って。。u0026quot;ブラックスワン。。u0026quot;のイベントの異常な数にもかかわらず、株式市場の活力に驚嘆するためにここ数週間で流行されましたが、私は、その特定の鳥類のメタファーを買っていない
- Relocating Sports Programs: An Unintended Effect of State School Takeovers
The phrase that someone has decided to take his ball and go home is based on an action, but usually used as a metaphor. In the case of Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Eugene White, though, this phrase could indeed describe what he is literally doing. Instead of suing to fight a state takeover of some of his schools, White has done something more inspired and/or dastardly -- taken away support for those schools' extracurricular activities. 誰かが彼のボールを取って帰宅することを決定したというフレーズは、アクションに基づいていますが、通常メタファーとして使用されます
- Slights will be hard to forget
WASHINGTON: The White House could do worse that look to the Studio Theatre in Washington for a meaningful metaphor as the US President and his advisers gird for their encounters with Hamid Karzai this week. ワシントンは：ホワイトハウス悪いことスタジオシアターにワシントンで米大統領と彼のアドバイザーのハミドカルザイ大統領との出会いの今週身構えるように有意義なメタファーを探すのですが
- The Story So Far: Will Sponsored Content and Creative Ads Save Digital Journalism?
The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism, a recent report by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves, for Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, opens with a description of the front wall of the waterfront office of the Miami Herald, a part of the building that is now half obscured by a massive billboard for Apple. The fact that an Apple billboard is currently the face of a legacy media company serves as an apt metaphor for the respective fates of digital and print media. In 2001 Apple and the Miami Herald’s parent company Knight-Ridder were both valued at just under $4 billion dollars. Flash forward to 2011, thanks to two recessions and an ongoing revolution in the media industry, and Apple is valued at more than $300 billion and Knight Ridder has ceased to operate as an independent company. No longer able to generate sufficient income from traditional advertising sales, The Miami Herald has found a way to take advantage of its expensive headquarters by turning it into a platform for advertising. During a recent panel discussion at Columbia’s Journalism School, the authors of The Story So Far explained that the traditional model where ads are placed next to content is dead, and that its time for media companies to redefine their relationships with advertisers.
It’s hard to ignore the fact that, as Columbia’s President Lee Bollinger, explained in his recent book that in “first decade of the 21st century as communication technology changes radically and the world becomes increasingly integrated” the media sector is “undergoing changes of a similar magnitude.” ファーソーストーリー：私たちは、デジタルジャーナリズムのコロンビア大学のトーセンターデジタルジャーナリズム、ビルGrueskin、アヴァSeave、とルーカスGravesの最近の報告書の事業について何を知って、ウォーターフロントの事務所の前壁の説明で開きますマイアミヘラルド、今の半分されている建物の一部のAppleのための大規模なビルで隠されてしまう
- The Guantánamo files: Tale of two prisons | Editorial
Guantánamo embodies the failure of the Afghan war, which began amid bombast in 2001, but which collapsed long agoAs a metaphor for everything that has gone wrong with the Afghan war, the story of two prisons is hard to beat. In one prison, they can't get the remaining inmates out. In the other, they can't keep them in. Either way, the military coalition has been left looking like a fool.In southern Afghanistan yesterday morning, 475 prisoners, almost all said to be Taliban insurgents, escaped through a tunnel that seems to have been dug under the eyes of their captors. And just as the Taliban were digging their way out, the Guardian and the New York Times were putting online leaked documents describing the management of inmates in that other, more famous prison in Guantánamo Bay. President Obama was elected on a promise to close the latter within a year of taking office. Instead he has abandoned the task with 172 inmates still inside. Some of these, as the Guantánamo files show, are seriously unpleasant and dangerous but others are lesser figures who have become lost in the system after years of abuse and misinformation made them impossible to prosecute or simply homeless, like the Chinese Uighur Muslims, who have nowhere to go.Either way, Guantánamo embodies the failure of America and Britain's Afghan war, which began amid bombast in 2001, but which collapsed long ago into confusion. The thing that stands out from the newly published Guantánamo files is not the disgraceful self-exempted off-shoring of the rule of law, or even the torture and sustained abuse of inmates – grotesque though these things are, we have long known about them – but the random ineffectiveness of the system. The defence put forward by the people who set Guantánamo up – it was an efficient way of グアンタナモは、2001年に大言壮語の中で始めたが、長いagoAsにアフガン戦争と間違っているすべてのメタファーを崩壊アフガン戦争の失敗を体現して、二刑務所の物語が勝利するのは難しいです
- Psychedelics' bejewelled sledgehammer | Robert Dobbs
An LSD trip brings a restless insistence on recategorising and recontextualising anything that catches your attentionThe question: Did the drugs work at all?At 14, I was much taken by phenomenology. The idea that certainty was an illusion, our experiences and logical conclusions forever trapped behind imperfect senses, gelled with my distrust of religious dogma and fondness for science's inbuilt doubts. These things are important, at 14.Ten years later, flat on my back beneath an orange east-London night sky, with Elgar on the headphones and illegal indole groups rewiring my brain, phenomenology went from a nice idea to case proven.As photography's true pleasure is in the taking of the picture rather than the printing of it afterwards, the point of the psychedelic experience isn't in its recollection – let alone in that direst of hippy pastimes, the recounting of how fried we were, man. (Although to the startled Japanese tourist seeking directions whose shoes were vomited over in Kew Gardens one eternal afternoon: sincere apologies. Man, we got that dose wrong.)The value is in the view suddenly revealed, the mundane perception revealed as an interplay of elements each with their own unique existence, combined for an instant into something with its own being. We think, necessarily, in cliche, in tested metaphors, but cliche get stale and metaphors only work by hiding detail. It was profoundly arresting to find myself in a place where none of that applied and to be forced to deal for a few hours with rude novelty at every level.You can't, in general, do much while you're there apart from go along for the ride. Yet acid's restless insistence on recategorising, recontextualising and generally mucking around with anything that catches your attention leaves the world you retu LSDの旅行はrecategorisingとattentionThe質問をキャッチし何かをrecontextualisingで落ち着きの主張をもたらします：？薬は14で、私は多くの現象によって撮影されたすべての仕事でした
- On the ground in Zawiyah, Libya
Zawiyah, 30 miles from Tripoli, a town controlled by rebels and surrounded by loyalists, provides a metaphor for the stalemate in LibyaPeter Beaumont
Zawiyahは、30マイルトリポリ、反乱軍によって制御されると支持者に囲まれた町からLibyaPeter Beaumontの行き詰まりのためのメタファーを提供しています
- Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand | Adrian Searle
Courtesy of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Turbine Hall is now carpeted with a million hand-painted seeds – an image of globalisation both politically powerful and hauntingly beautifulAt first sight Ai Weiwei's installation Sunflower Seeds presents us with an undifferentiated field of grey, filling the space between the bridge and the end wall of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is almost disappointing. The late Felix Gonzalez-Torres's piles of cellophane-wrapped sweets, which he showed in the 1980s, were prettier, and you were free to eat them (the American artist liked the idea that people could leave his shows with a nice taste lingering in their mouths). But the sweets were also metaphors for the Aids crisis, and much besides. Nothing in art is what it seems. And you can't eat a single one of Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds, any more than you could Marcel Duchamp's marble sugar cubes. They'd break your teeth.But you can trudge over them, walk or skip or dance on these seeds, all of them Made in China. Or scoop up handfuls and let them run through your fingers, in the knowledge that someone, an old lady or a small-town teenager in Jingdezhen, has delicately picked up each one and anointed it with a small brush. Every seed is painted by hand. The town that once made porcelain for the imperial court has been saved from bankruptcy by making sunflower seeds. It is absurd.I love this work. It is a world in a hundred million objects. It is also a singular statement, in a familiar, minimal form – like Wolfgang Laib's floor-bound rectangles of yellow pollen, Richard Long's stones or Antony Gormley's fields of thousands of little humanoids. Sunflower Seeds, however, is better. It is audacious, subtle, unexpected but inevitable. It is a work of great simplicity and complexity. Sunflo 中国人アーティストアイウェイウェイの礼儀は、タービンホールは万手描きの種子とカーペットが敷かれ - グローバリゼーションのイメージを政治的にも強力な湛えたbeautifulAt一目アイウェイウェイのインストールひまわり種子は空間を充填する、灰色の未分化のフィールドをご紹介ブリッジとテートモダンのタービンホールの端壁との間に
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