News You Can Use

Here are some links on advertising and news. The first is about the underlying intellectual dishonesty in even the most honest of ad campaigns. By the way, if you're into advertising, that entire blog is great. I'm a bit biased, though, since I used to work for Bob Garfield.

The second is a radio interview with the director of FactCheck.org, a website devoted to debunking claims in political ads. I also used to work with the guy who interviewed FactCheck's director. Yup, I'm a pretty big deal.

Now for some news stuff. Lots of people worry about conservative or liberal news media bias. But there are several interesting biases that are much less talked about. Here's a discussion of the bias toward anything that's dangerous.

What's so important about news anyway? Here's an interesting argument against caring so much about current events.