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Tag Archives: NBC
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Yesterday evening, NBC News had a segment on oil vouchers. Today, Felix Salmon points to lottery tickets. -
Devoting the whole NBC Nightly News bulletin to Tim Russert’s passing was worst than beaming out porn.
John Cole: Let’s Get Something Straight By: John Cole June 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm I liked Tim Russert, even though I thought his BS gotcha nonsense was thorough idiocy and not helping the debate at all. He was a … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Politics, Prediction Journalism
Tagged CNN, idiocy, James Carville, John Cole, Meet The Press, NBC, NBC Nightly News, Reagan, Ron Paul, Tim Russert
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Iraq War = “not necessary”, “a serious strategic blunder” — US News Media = “complicit enablers” in the manipulation of the public (“the propaganda campaign”) — George W. Bush turned away “from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”
- Check what he wrote on Katrina and on Condoleeza Rice. – And, now, the clincher: [Scott McClellan] does not exempt himself from failings — “I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Politics, Prediction Journalism
Tagged George W. Bush, Iraq, Jessica Yellin, liberal media, NBC, news media, official, President, Scott McClellan, Tim Russert, White House
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Why the 3 Midas Oracle blogs, the InTrade-TradeSports blog, the BetFair-TradeFair blog, the Betdaq blog, the Iowa Electronic Markets blog, the Hollywood Stock Exchange blog, the NewsFutures blog, the Freakonomics blog, the Odd Head blog, the Alpha Thesis blog, the Caveat Bettor blog, etc., should all be part of a giant, inter-linked, meta conversation about prediction markets.
[I]n the blogosphere, [] competition is a good thing, not a bad thing. I want other finance blogs to launch, the more the better. And I want them to be written by keener minds than mine. The more that happens, … Continue reading
Ron Paul Courageously Speaks the Truth.
Ron Paul on Jay Leno (NBC’s Tonite Show)
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics
Tagged 2008 US elections, 2008 US presidential elections, free people and free markets, InTrade, Jay Leno, NBC, Politics, prediction markets, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Courageously Speaks, US elections, US politics, US President, US presidential elections
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NBC News Tim Russert (the host of Meet The Press) would have not expired the Larry Craig contract too early.
“[I]t is my intent to resign from the Senate, effective September 30 [2007]“, said US Senator Larry Craig. (Important note: In that same output, he did not say that he would not seek another term.) Based on this vague statement … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Expiry
Tagged intent, intention, John McCain, Larry Craig, lawyer, Member, NBC, President, Senate, Tim Russert, United States, United States Senate, USD, Well
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Would any serious newsroom invite Justin Wolfers in 2008 to report on political election prediction markets?
THAT MAY BE. — Resident Publications: [...] Wolfers predicted that cable news shows would turn to prediction-market experts for analysis in 2008. “My forecast is that they’ll either have someone in the studio whose job it is to track the … Continue reading