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A media shell game
When times get tough, companies like to hunker down like a tortoise in its shell. When the rough times pass, they’ll come out of our shell again. But in the media business today hunkering down and focusing on the core is like a tortoise withdrawing into its shell in the middle of a highway. You…
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Bracketology is academic
Which Tennessee men’s basketball team will be in the Final Four and play for the championship? One educated guess is Belmont. Inside Higher Ed did a NCAA men’s basketball bracket based the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate with the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate as the tiebreaker. See the full details on this methodology, which is not…
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Raising new and troubling questions …
In what could only be viewed as a perverse and often baffling development, author and New Yorker magazine writer Malcolm Gladwell said last week a story he told in an early February segment of public radio’s “This American Life” is, well, a complete tall tale. In the story, recorded at a New York club called…