“It serves as the most vital of all general interests: the dissemination of news from as many different sources, and with as many different facets and colors as possible. That interest is closely akin to, if indeed it is not the same as, the interest protected by the First Amendment; it presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and always will be folly; but we have staked upon it our all.” ~ Judge Learned Hand, as quoted during The Failing Newspaper Act hearings of 1967 by Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.
Judge Learned Hand, Defender of The Free Press
Letters, Postcards, & Money in The Mail
[Correspondence] Analog Mail, 1999 I’ve been diving into the Reviewer archives of late and in one box of manilla envelopes I seem to have struck a vein of pre-millennial postcards and other mail. It’s people’s forgotten PR notices, tour schedules, payments for small ads, and other things like interview requests and general fluff mail. Interesting to reminisce about. […]
book review: Shark In The Housing Pool
[Book Review] SHARK IN THE HOUSING POOL by Matthew B. Cox, 2016, paperback 330 pages, contact.matthew.cox@gmail.com I’m reading this right now. It’s a 2016 memoir from a formerly incarcerated federal ex-con named Matthew Cox who was featured on American Greed. He made lots of money by ingeniously concocting fake identities that he patched together from the social security numbers he […]
Merging Flesh and Machine?
[Podcasts That Inspire] The Singularity of the Current Age Of AI ‘The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. The book builds on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil’s previous books, The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990) and The Age of Spiritual […]