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...getting between 15 and 20 reviews on our site per story, from users who love to review," Petty said. The prize-winning stories receive far more reviews than that, and the number of positive reviews decides each story's ranking. In January, the best-reviewed story of 2008 will claim the $250,000 jackpot...
...Klein then predicted that things would change in the debates, since "it isn't easy to tell lies when your opponent is standing right next to you." Oops! After that column appeared, 70 million people watched and heard Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden tell 15 documented falsehoods, including the claim that he regularly patronizes Katie's Restaurant, in Wilmington, Delaware, which has been closed for years. Klein's idea of the "unwritten rules" of campaign rhetoric seems to be that the media have the right to selectively use facts to form public opinion and smear the candidate they oppose. Kent...
...include depictions of a weakened Germany during World War II. One such drawing, published in 1941, showed a group of frozen German soldiers carrying a coffin labeled "The myth of the invincible German army." Yefimov later turned his eye toward the U.S., creating a cartoon of Dwight Eisenhower laying claim to the North Pole, a drawing commissioned by Joseph Stalin. Yefimov...
...Google search, for instance, turns up plenty of blog references to Palin's claim that she could see Russia "from [her] house" as her way of saying that being governor of Alaska is a foreign policy credential. The only problem: Real Sarah Palin never said it. Fey did, spoofing Palin's argument that one can see Russia from Alaskan territory. But who can remember those details? If Real You gets in an argument with Public You, Public You wins every time...
...struggle, has been been squandered. The generation of South Africans who'll be eligible to vote for the first time next year have grown up in a post-apartheid democratic environment. The split in the ANC may be a sign of a maturing politics, in which a party's claim to power will have to rest on more than past glories...