CARL, the data used by BHO was not illegal and it was used in 2012, not 2008. People that downloaded the app that collected the data knew it was for political purposes, but Cambridge said the data was for a university study. The one issue shared by both situations is that friends’ data was accessed as well, which is wrong.
It saddens me to point out it will never “catch on” since it requires we pay for it and actually expend the effort of reading. I will allow with a sigh it was the way once for the many and is the way still for a diminishing few.
News and information are headed to the stable P.R.I.N.T format, where stories are published in a slow deliberate manner, published to those who can get them, eliminating the need to operate an expensive technical/social network run by expensive IT workers. A newspaper is the perfect device to replace on-line news. Readers can flip to pages that reveal data or more information about a particular subject. Advertisers can produce unobtrusive ads that don’t get in the way of content. And the paper can be slipped into a briefcase or bag. “There’s this assumption that online is inevitable, that it is like the steam engine or something. Maybe it is. but maybe it’s not. Maybe it can’t be.” – Michael Gerber
drivingfuriously Premium Member about 6 years ago
Nobody knows when I change my AM radio station either. Or what I’m listening to.
lopaka about 6 years ago
Sad that there will be a number of people that would end up attempting to read the paper while holding it upside down.
lopaka about 6 years ago
And, then there will be those that attempt to take selfies with a paper.
Carl Premium Member about 6 years ago
Just think, stripped of illegal data, BHO might not have won in 2008, it could have been President Clinton instead.
tbemont Premium Member about 6 years ago
Best, most on point, political cartoon I have seen in a very long time.
Masterskrain Premium Member about 6 years ago
Sadly, some people are trying to subvert P.R.I.N.T. as well. Seen the “National Enquirer” recently?? It’s turned into a Pro-Trump birdcage liner…
Nantucket Premium Member about 6 years ago
CARL, the data used by BHO was not illegal and it was used in 2012, not 2008. People that downloaded the app that collected the data knew it was for political purposes, but Cambridge said the data was for a university study. The one issue shared by both situations is that friends’ data was accessed as well, which is wrong.
d_legendary1 about 6 years ago
Novel idea! Let’s go back to killing trees and further destroying our planet. How about making collection of such data a crime?
Radish the wordsmith about 6 years ago
China complains that the paper we send them to recycle is of low quality.
robnvon Premium Member about 6 years ago
It saddens me to point out it will never “catch on” since it requires we pay for it and actually expend the effort of reading. I will allow with a sigh it was the way once for the many and is the way still for a diminishing few.
Mr. Blawt about 6 years ago
News and information are headed to the stable P.R.I.N.T format, where stories are published in a slow deliberate manner, published to those who can get them, eliminating the need to operate an expensive technical/social network run by expensive IT workers. A newspaper is the perfect device to replace on-line news. Readers can flip to pages that reveal data or more information about a particular subject. Advertisers can produce unobtrusive ads that don’t get in the way of content. And the paper can be slipped into a briefcase or bag. “There’s this assumption that online is inevitable, that it is like the steam engine or something. Maybe it is. but maybe it’s not. Maybe it can’t be.” – Michael Gerber
WestNYC Premium Member about 6 years ago
So few print newspapers carry Ms. Sorenson’s cartoons, what to do ?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
That’s Plutocrat funded there.