Akkam's RazorAmerica: Fix it or leave it.

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

• The Right-Wing Op-Ed Insurgency | The Daily Beast – Liberal bias? A Daily Beast investigation crunches the numbers and shows how conservative think tanks have quietly achieved domination over the opinion pages of America’s biggest papers.
• Chris Thomas – Politics on the Rocks – Glenn Beck and the Government’s Fictional Plot To Hijack Your Computer – True/Slant – An astute viewer of Beck’s expose might notice that the website that Beck is browsing is blue whereas the cars.gov website is green. This is no trick of the studio lights; though he never mentions it, what Beck is demonstrating only occurs on the dealer side of the website. The consumer side – the side that anyone who is not an automotive dealer will access – is green. What Beck demonstrates is not even something that a casual user of the site could stumble upon; they would have to go looking for it.
• Junk Charts: Degrees of likeness 1 – The NYT team just put up a fantastic visualization of the American Time Use Survey data, which purports to measure how the average American spends the time of a day. (Apparently, thousands of people recalled what they did every minute of an average day.) The amount of data collected is massive, and this graphic allows readers to explore the data in intuitive ways.
• The New York Times > Opinion > Image > Music Sales – A graph of sales volume for different music mediums.
• rc3.org – The Wal-Martification of Microsoft – The bottom line is that Snapper could not maintain their high quality or their reputation for high quality in a market where price was the main factor in purchase decisions. It doesn’t surprise me that Microsoft’s current Chief Operating Officer came from Wal-Mart.

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