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Parenti levels some serious charges against the media, including several astounding examples of the "Big Lie" (Soviet terrorism, the downing of KAL 007, the Bulgarian "Pope Killers"). A conservative, anti-communist, and anti-labor bias emerges from pages and pages of specific incidents. ![]() Now he expands upon this theme and dissects the patterns and actions of network and newspaper ownership. In this latest study of "who controls the media," political scientist Parenti continues the basic argument set forth in his earlier popular works Democracy for the Few ( LJ 11/15/77) and Power and the Powerless ( LJ 10/15/78)in which he portrayed the existing power structure as under the control of a corporate or political elite. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Noise nihei![]() And although noise can be found wherever people are making judgements and decisions, individuals and organizations alike commonly ignore its impact, at great cost. ![]() ![]() Sunstein show how noise produces errors in many fields, including in medicine, law, public health, economic forecasting, forensic science, child protection, creative strategy, performance review and hiring. In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. These are examples of noise: variability in judgements that should be identical. Now imagine that the same doctor and the same judge make different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday, or they haven’t yet had lunch. Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. ‘An absolutely brilliant investigation of a massive societal problem that has been hiding in plain sight’įrom the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think. A genuinely new idea so exceedingly important you will immediately put it into practice. ‘Noise may be the most important book I’ve read in more than a decade. 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