Jon Stewart Drubs CNN Again For Boston Bombing Reporting (VIDEO)

You might think Jon Stewart is being overly harsh in taking CNN to task yet again for its Boston bombing coverage... until you see this set of clips from the dramatic conclusion to last week's nightmare manhunt.

To sum it up here would be a disservice to the segment. Suffice to say, CNN went from a "say it first and have Anderson Cooper correct it later" style to a "sandlot football, 'EVERYONE GO LONG'" model. Much, much better.

Or not better at all.

Watch "The Daily Show" clip above and let us know what you think. And savor that closing thought... it's a doozy.

Also on HuffPost:

View the original article here

buy service for site crawled again by google 100$

Advertise virtually anything here, with CPM banner ads, CPM email ads and CPC contextual links. You can target relevant areas of the site and show ads based on geographical location of the user if you wish.

Starts at just $1 per CPM or $0.10 per CPC.

View the original article here

Language Log » Bad Science Reporting Again: The Eskimos Are Back

You just can't keep a bad idea down. And you just can't lift the level of bad science journalism up. David Robson of New Scientist, in a piece published in that pop science rag a couple of weeks ago and now also published in the Washington Post, plunders an academic paper by Igor Krupnik about the anthropologist Franz Boas, who lived with a Canadian Inuit band for a few months in the early 20th century and learned the language.

Read the whole story at languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

View the original article here