Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

How did people learn about bin Laden’s death?
Survey says — Television. Though many of my students said word-of-mouth from people who had been watching TV.
What parent wouldn’t love a book called “Go The @$#& To Sleep”?
This book sounds brilliant and is a bestseller on Amazon. Also, evidence that pirated PDF of book that went viral helped drive sales.
“With Fox News No. 1 on cable and Limbaugh No. 1 on the radio, where did we get the idea that the media was controlled by the left?”
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin talks about what media he consumes. (Hint: It isn’t Fox or Limbaugh. It does include the Wall Street Journal.)
Did French defamation and privacy laws keep public from knowing about IMF head’s ‘secrets’?
French law tends to favor the privacy of prominent people over the public’s right to know.

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