• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    1 year ago

    I find it very interesting that he didn’t start out in political science, but had a background in cognitive and mathematical realms where you can either be right or wrong based on how well your theory matches the reality, and if you’re wrong you have to fix your theory and try again. And then also that when he started analyzing political topics, he showed an uncommon-for-the-field ability to analyze statements and theories to see if they were true (which made him some kind of wild and radical outlier compared to how more or less every single other professional at the time liked to look at the world).

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      1 year ago

      Wasn’t one of his first works showing how American media coverage, especially the New York Times, make key changes in articles about Israel? He found internationally distributed articles and showed that US media always changed articles about Israel to paint them in a better light. It was really great work.