Curmudgeon Review: Misinformation
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Curmudgeon | 1 Comment »Well family & friends, I believe I have morphed into a curmudgeon. In 1986 while working in the corporate world I posted a comment on the our department bulleton board on trust. I was basically extolling the merits of trust. Now the refrain ...
The Curmudgeon Review
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Curmudgeon | No Comments »This blog will be the 1st in a series of "The Curmudgeon Review". The reviews will be posted periodically. At age 78, I am the only curmudgeon in our immediate family. (Grandma is definitely not a curmudgeon). The reviews will be ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part III]
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, TV News Media | 7 Comments »Why would we want to have a TV station devoted to long term projections on crucial issues on a daily basis? Isn't there enough boring stuff on TV already? Isn't our present method of "wait for a crisis to occur ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part II]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, TV News Media | 2 Comments »Yesterday (3-12-09) Jon Stewart exposed Jim Cramer as a business journalist "snake oil salesman". Tonight (3-13-09) The PBS News Hour discussed the Stewart/Cramer episode and asked a panel of business writers and analysts to watch a clip from the show. ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part I]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, media | No Comments »Lawyers, (most of our politicians), and Journalist, (media people) are by-in-large verbal people. They don't seem to consider the possibility that several hundred words can be turned into a picture, chart or graph. Word information is growing exponentially. We're drowning ...