I'm not going to be a party to it... I'm done with the NY Times

@ScottWalker has been cleared, yet @nytimes continues a smear campaign http://t.co/k0qOsxaCvB I'm #CancelNYT today.
— Lem (@Lemang01) June 21, 2014

The NYT Reluctantly Delivers Bad Economic News

The single best gauge of the economic recovery — better than the headline unemployment rate — may be wage growth."

 

So ignore April’s sharp drop in unemployment. Pay no attention to the creation of 288,000 jobs announced on Friday. The most important number in the latest jobs report did not change at all."

 

Average hourly wages for American workers held steady at $24.31 last month. They have increased just 1.9 percent over the previous 12 months. But after adjusting for inflation, real wages have increased by something like 0.5 percent." (read more)

 

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How A Popular Two-Letter Word Is Undermining Your Credibility

 

3 of 3 - “So” demonstrates that you’re not 100% comfortable with what you’re saying.

Just as the “so” setup announces that this portion of the conversation will be very deliberate, it also demonstrates that you’re not as comfortable with your story as you think you are."

Rather than just plainly answering their question, you’re relying on the crutch of a practiced blurb. Usually, whatever follows “so” is a carefully crafted sentence, evolved over many iterations and audience reactions."

There’s a reason we do it. In psychology, it’s what’s known as a “marker.” It’s a little cue to our cognitive mind that says, “Quick, call up that part that we practiced.”
Just like a speaking coach will tell you not to fill empty space with “um,” you should avoid framing your answer as a rehearsed pitch by starting with “so.”

NYT, FC

The Names were changed to protect the Party.

TOP has a post called "Most Embarrassing Sentence in Major Media, 2013."

 

Upon reading the story from which the first nominee was pulled ... 

But hanging in the air was an electrifying sense of being in the presence of an ascendant politician they believed understood the potential of the new digital world they were shaping. 

and commenting about it (my comment is awaiting moderation as I write this) I had an idea.

Change the names of the characters to republican names, and a few other things that had to be changed, and see what happens. 

The conference room in Wichita Kansas, headquarters of Koch Industries was packed with the stars of Big Oil & Gas, Top executives of Exxon Mobil, Ford, McDonalds, NASCAR and Coors gathered around a table; the billionaire David H. Koch looked on from a back row. The guest of honor: Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin.

The stated purpose of the gathering was to give Mr. Walker, already a gas guzzler fanatic, a seminar on tail-gating technologies. But hanging in the air was an electrifying sense of being in the presence of an ascendant politician they believed understood the potential of the new digital giant screens they were trying to get people away from and back to nature, hunting and fishing.

“He’s part of this tide,” said Linda McMahon, an entrepreneur who was at the meeting, in May 2009. “It feels like he’s one of us.”

Two and a half years later, some of those same Big Oil & Gas executives joined forces again on Mr. Walker's behalf. But this time, their efforts resulted in giving Mr. Walker, until then an admired outsider, the equivalent of full-fledged membership in their elite circle: an Oil field start-up of his own.

Mr. Walker personally has obtained money for the start-up, called WayPipe, from influential investors, including Pete Coors, Chairman of the Molson Coors Brewing Company. A year after its debut, WayPipe has already endured a round of layoffs and had just a minimum of drilling contracts keeping it afloat, according to Compost, an Oil & Gas tracking service. The company says it is still under development.

Yet in a financial disclosure filed last month, Mr. Walker, 45, revealed that his stake in the company was worth $1 million to $5 million. Taken together, his other assets were worth no more than $730,000.

New York Times - Tech Magnates Bet on Booker and His Future

Video Evidence of questionable political wisdom.

"The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney is running for a United States Senate seat in Wyoming in 2014, but many Republicans question the political wisdom of this move."

Says the NY Times and they have the video to prove it.