Andrew Browne, my favorite commentator on China, nails it when he says, in his last paragraph, that the United States possesses “extraordinary advantages” with its patents, license fees, university system and other key ingredients of innovation. As I have argued for decades, the key response to China starts at home. Do we choose to maintain […]…
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USA Today Joins the “False Equivalence” Debate
Michael Wolff, a columnist for USA Today, weighed in on the debate about media coverage of the presidential election. I and others have framed this as a debate of “false equivalence:” how can the media give even-handed coverage to two candidates of such dramatically different records and temperments? Wolff took great delight in how Times […]…
The “false equivalency” argument spreads like wild fire
It’s amazing how social media has accelerated the transmission of certain ideas. I blogged last Friday criticizing the media for treating allegations against Hillary Clinton the same way they treat the outrages that Donald Trump commits and continues to commit. I used the phrase “false equivalence.” I had never heard it before. I thought I […]…
The New York Times responds to “false equivalence” argument
New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd must have written this piece before I posted my blog on Friday decrying the media’s insistence on “false equivalence,” the presumption that what Hillary Clinton did with her email server was in any way comparable to Donald Trump’s refusal to release his income tax statements or a range […]…
