Results tagged “mistake-of-the-week” from YGLESIAS errata

Elliot Spitzer uses his most recent Slate column to call for a renewed spirit of competition and innovation in American business.

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And I think there's a lot of sentiment that punishing people for consensual acts is wrong, and also that criminalizing prosecution leaves women exposed to violence, abuse, and rape at the hands of pimps and cops alike.

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So what's former prospector and former state attorney general Elliot Spitzer think about this?

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Update: Thanks to willie for pointing out the "prospector" mistake.

Mistake of the week winner, January 18-24, 2009

Famously, the radio proved to be a hugely effective communications medium for Obama. But then the pendulum swung back in the age of TV. And now in the internet age, it's swinging back again in an interesting way.

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The internet is famous for the way it fragments attention, but one of the ways in which it does that is by making it possibly to narrowcast more content to interested parties than would ever be viable to push through the crowded pipes of cable television.

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Mistake of the week winner, January 11-17, 2009