To Bring News To A Boil

Posted on July 12, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

(And increase entropy along the way.) The pot was placed on the cooking stove shortly after noon with the brief announcement by NZZ that at 2pm CEST the Swiss justice minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will announce the decision regarding the U.S. request to extradite Polanski. Since, some French rejoice «Merci la Suisse! Bravo la Suisse!» while [...]

On Spreading Offensiveness

Posted on November 22, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

I use to think that if I just report something offensive I do not harm the audience, the people who are receivers of what I communicate. After all, the offensive message does not originate from my mind, I’m just a vehicle telling about it. (In the following, I do not strictly distinguish offensive messages from [...]

 

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