As demonstrated in the past on TIPS, one doesn’t have to go looking for a vast right-wing, corporatist conspiracy to think critically about Gladwell’s work. But the SHAME Project homepage is an interesting read. It turns out that Arianna Huffington and NPR are also in the pockets of the far right-wing corporatists.
The SHAME (Shame the Hacks who Abuse Media Ethics) project is a division of NSFWCORP<https://www.nsfwcorp.com/archives/>, probably a play on Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp. Digitally thumbing through a few issues provides some helpful context on their reporting. If you thought Cory Booker was just the former mayor of Newark, NJ who became a senator from New Jersey, you will be interested to find out that, “His political career was launched with the help of the Chabad-Lubavitchers, a rabidly rightwing Hasidic cult that considers its dead Rebbe a messiah and that pushes a regressive right-wing worldview that would horrify Booker’s prog supporters: deep- rooted racism, violent Islamophobia, medieval positions on everything from abortion to homosexuality and women’s rights, and a nasty tendency to normalize sexual abuse and protect serial sexual predators in its ranks.” If nothing else, the site will put the lie to the contention that right-wingers have a monopoly on conspiracy theories*. I’m not sure this site can be easily placed on the usual left-right continuum. It seems to reflect the worldview of Yasha Levine (its founder, who has somehow escaped even having a Wikipedia profile but he is mentioned in a number of Wikipedia articles) but you can say for sure it is not right of center on that scale. * Such as in Lewandowski, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, G. E. (2013). NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science. Psychological Science, 24, 622-633. (http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/5/622) Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3519 x7295 rfro...@jbu.edu<mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu> http://bit.ly/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps." From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 7:10 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Positive dyslexia This might give you a somewhat different view of the seemingly affable Malcolm Gladwell. As Canadians go, he has more in common with, say, David Frum and Conrad Black than you might otherwise think. http://shameproject.com/report/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist/ Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca> http://www.yorku.ca/christo On Nov 5, 2013, at 5:43 PM, "michael sylvester" <msylves...@copper.net<mailto:msylves...@copper.net>> wrote: In an interview on Fareed Zakaria's GPS a fortnight ago,Malcolm Gladwell remarked about the positve compensatory positive aspects of dyslexia.Gladwell nterviewed a couple of outstanding CEOs and professionals.They all remarked that because of their reading deficiences they had to develop extraordinary memorizing ability in their work. michael ________________________________ [http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png]<http://www.avast.com/> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus<http://www.avast.com/> protection is active. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=29831 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-29831-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-29831-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu<mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=29841 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-29841-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-29841-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=29856 or send a blank email to leave-29856-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
