Comments on: Culturology 023.5 - Philosophical Pop http://www.audioshocker.com/2009/03/17/culturology-0235-philosophical-pop Comics, Movies, Fighting Games, and Pop Culture. 3 New Podcasts Every Week! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nick marino http://www.audioshocker.com/2009/03/17/culturology-0235-philosophical-pop#comment-5316 nick marino Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:34:50 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=1479#comment-5316 excerpt of the X-Men book: http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/09/04704134/0470413409.pdf excerpt of Terminator: http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/82/04704479/0470447982.pdf they're linked off of the individual book pages on the right side. excerpt of the X-Men book:

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/09/04704134/0470413409.pdf

excerpt of Terminator:

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/82/04704479/0470447982.pdf

they're linked off of the individual book pages on the right side.

]]> By: pete http://www.audioshocker.com/2009/03/17/culturology-0235-philosophical-pop#comment-5312 pete Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:06 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=1479#comment-5312 I'll look into doing an extensive write-up of this book for next week or the week following. But needless to say, apparently, it will be negative. (Where'd you get the excerpt, Nick?) I'll look into doing an extensive write-up of this book for next week or the week following. But needless to say, apparently, it will be negative. (Where'd you get the excerpt, Nick?)

]]> By: nick marino http://www.audioshocker.com/2009/03/17/culturology-0235-philosophical-pop#comment-5302 nick marino Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:20:44 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=1479#comment-5302 i guess because USA TODAY replaces opinion with promotion and "in depth" with "reaffirming" - just a guess. All in all, it's a nice place to read rewritten press releases. i guess because USA TODAY replaces opinion with promotion and "in depth" with "reaffirming" - just a guess. All in all, it's a nice place to read rewritten press releases.

]]> By: neal http://www.audioshocker.com/2009/03/17/culturology-0235-philosophical-pop#comment-5298 neal Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:04:49 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=1479#comment-5298 You know, USA Today just defies conventional newspaper logic. The paper is total B.S. and contains no valuable information. It is just a print version of the AP Wire, yet it remains in print with enormous distribution. People advertise in that rag, but it's polls and quotes from 'studies' are about as well researched as a copy of Men's Health or Cosmopolitan. Hundreds of newspapers across the country are struggling to keep the lights on, the storied foreign bureaus of our major metro's continue to fold, hard hitting print journalism is dying, but Bullshit Today keeps on going. I know that all sounds a lot like the same poorly written blog chatter you see everyday - but seriously - why is USA Today successful where real newspapers like the WSJ are limping along? You know, USA Today just defies conventional newspaper logic. The paper is total B.S. and contains no valuable information. It is just a print version of the AP Wire, yet it remains in print with enormous distribution. People advertise in that rag, but it's polls and quotes from 'studies' are about as well researched as a copy of Men's Health or Cosmopolitan.

Hundreds of newspapers across the country are struggling to keep the lights on, the storied foreign bureaus of our major metro's continue to fold, hard hitting print journalism is dying, but Bullshit Today keeps on going.

I know that all sounds a lot like the same poorly written blog chatter you see everyday - but seriously - why is USA Today successful where real newspapers like the WSJ are limping along?

]]> By: nick marino http://www.audioshocker.com/2009/03/17/culturology-0235-philosophical-pop#comment-5297 nick marino Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:48:05 +0000 http://www.audioshocker.com/?p=1479#comment-5297 i just tried a quick excerpt (a.k.a. Chapter 1) from the X-Men book... it definitely talked down to the reader. negative points!!! i was hoping for some actual serious exploration of the X-Men, not Philosophy 101 using examples from the X-Men movies. hopefully the rest of the book, and the others, are better. right now, i feel like i should have known better than to trust a philosophy book series i read about in USA TODAY... i just tried a quick excerpt (a.k.a. Chapter 1) from the X-Men book... it definitely talked down to the reader. negative points!!! i was hoping for some actual serious exploration of the X-Men, not Philosophy 101 using examples from the X-Men movies. hopefully the rest of the book, and the others, are better.

right now, i feel like i should have known better than to trust a philosophy book series i read about in USA TODAY...

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