Last night’s rehearsal, our first since the showcase, was disappointing in some ways, and great in others. Disappointing because most of us weren’t there. Great, because Takahiko, Mayu, and I had a really great follow-up conversation about what we discussed with the audience on Saturday after the show. I learned more about Takahiko in …
Tag Archive: Wall-of-Shame
Sep 27
The River is Wide
So the YTheatre Ensemble has started working on our first project. The first official project will still be Wall of Shame: The Musical, but we’re going to start doing a series of mini-projects to get us in the right headspace. The first project is to expand the world that I and a bunch of …
Sep 21
Meditations on the Wall of Shame
More than six months have passed since the great Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011. And thus more than six months have passed since I started the Bad Journalism Wall of Shame. Although entries still trickle in (reporting on Fukushima in particular continues to be sensationalistic and unscientific), the Wall’s heyday has passed, so it …
Sep 11
YT Ensemble, Assemble!
The Yokohama Theatre Ensemble met for the first time as a unit this past Friday at the Kanagawa Earth Plaza (or Global Citizens Plaza, or whatever it’s called). In addition to myself, the ensemble includes four brave souls: Hiraku Kawakami, Mari Kawamura, Mayu Cho, and Takahiko Arai. I say brave because we’re doing something …
Jul 30
One More for the Road
Once last Kaku post. Here is the video in which he says that we’ve stopped evolving and below that a link to a blog that explains very clearly why he’s wrong. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/why_do_physicists_think_they_a.php Should we be taking any advice from this guy? He obviously doesn’t have any power of self-editing, and thinks he’s …
Jul 25
Arnie Gundersen – The Facade of Believability
Arnold “Arnie” Gundersen is in some ways the opposite of Michio Kaku. He’s not flashy, he avoids sounding over-the-top, even when he talks about grim scenarios, and he doesn’t wave his arms around like a mad scientist. Gundersen talks a hot load of crap. The first time I saw Gundersen, I thought he …
Jul 24
Michio Kaku Rant – Bibliography
Just a quickie bibliography for my recent post about bullshit artist Michio Kaku. On Plutonium toxicity: Most of my points about plutonium can be found in the plutonium article on Wikipedia. The quotation about 5000 respirable particles was sourced from a plutonium human health fact sheet published by the Argonne National Laboratory. …
Jul 23
Michio Kaku = Douche
Here’s a section of the book chapter I wrote for ASIOS’s upcoming book. Since it’s only going to be published in Japanese, I wanted to share some of it with you. Keep in mind that it’s written for Japanese readers, and for each person or media source I wrote about, I was asked to explain …
Apr 09
TV Interviews and Other Creatures
On Tuesday, Yuko Aotani from NHK World Newsline, her producer, and crew met with myself and the other Journalism Wall of Shame editors at OUR SPACE in Hatagaya. Jack and Shinji, the men behind OUR SPACE, were very accommodating, as always, and made sure that all the technical needs were met. Some volunteer editors …
Apr 02
A Response
I’ve got a little bit of flak for starting the Journalism Wall of Shame, not surprisingly, though not as much as I actually expected. One person tweeted that he hated “fucking crusader bloggers” who had “never set foot in a newsroom in their lives”. Given that this was tweeted immediately after he’d tweeted about …
Mar 22
Wall of Shame Needs Your Help
The next step for the bad journalism wall-of-shame is in progress. Remember, as important as we think this is wall-of-shame project is, right now human lives are more important. If you do nothing else today (and haven’t already), please DONATE! (<—that link will take you to a page that lists reputable groups you can …
Mar 20
WTF Toronto Star
Here is an article filed by Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/955721–dimanno-no-rest-for-japan-quake-victims The article was brought to my attention by a contributor to the Bad Journalism Wall of Shame that I started Friday night. I clicked through to read it and was absolutely flabbergasted at it. I had expected a somewhat ill-informed, …
Mar 17
Why Bad Journalism Has Driven Me To Desperate Ends
In retrospect, I should have had this idea before, but I guess today I just hit critical mass (not sure if it’s appropriate to use a nuclear energy turn of phrase here): one too many pieces of bad journalism. So I decided to start a wiki Bad Journalism Wall of Shame and invite some …
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