OK kids.
Everyone's all crazy about the Metro.
The Metro actually started in Europe, I believe. Something like Sweden or Switzerland.
There has been talk of the Boston Globe buying the Metro for a while. I didn't realize the New York Times was thinking of buying the New York franchise.
Either way, I looked at AM New York again last night and yes, there are allegations against the Metro for racist comments being said during board meetings. The specific examples they gave were the "n" word and jokes about the male sexual anatomy of certain races. I guess there's a representative in NY (Harlem) who is demanding at least an apology from The Metro. The Metro claims that it's all a misunderstanding and its because of the translation.
I don't know. Again, I was delirious when I re-read it, but I'm not going to read the Metro anymore.
Friday, January 14, 2005
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Just for reference, NYT owns the Boston Globe. So if the Boston Globe bought anything, it would be the NYT buying it.
Oh.
This is all indicative of my steadily becoming less and less smart and aware over time.
The readers of my blog are wicked smahhhhhht.
Speaking of 'becoming dumb', I just started a great book about one of the senior editors of Esquire magazine, who recognizes a similar dumbification of his ownself and attempts to reverse the trend by reading the Encyclopedia Britannica in its entirety.
It's well-written and pretty damn funny, and as far as the first three chapters are concerned, it deserves an official Banalities recommendation. (Which means that you'll feel no regret promoting it to the top of your reading list.)
Oh yeah -- the book:
'The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World' by AJ Jacobs.
you're not dumb if you don't know the answer to a trivia question. "What company owns the Boston Globe?" is a trivia question (unless you happen to work at the Globe or the Times... then it's something you should know). Too often trivia is confused with intelligence. Memorizing all the answers to Trivia Pursuit will not expand your intelligence.
Though I agree it could be posed as a trivia question, I wouldn't consider the fact that the NYT owns the Boston Globe trivial. IF you rely at all on print journalism to report the news, it's good to know who's pulling the strings. Not to say of course that not knowing such is of particular consequence.
Agreed. Point being, not knowing certain things can amount to trivia rather than a measure of intelligence. Is one really a smarter person if they know Suave shampoo is owned by Proctor and Gamble? Or that listerine is owned by Pfeizer? The collection of facts simply strikes me as a different phenomenon than the execution of intelligence. Intelligence differs from this because an intelligent person understands concepts and how they are glued together, in which case a mastery of facts helps the intelligent person better execute intelligence. BUT, it is not intelligence in and of itself. It's akin to saying gas powers a car when really it is the engine and the collection of the parts working in tandem. In this sense, facts are really just gas. In fact, I suppose being intelligent means nothing without facts just like a moving car means noting without gas. Probably noone will even read this since this is a comment on a post getting older by the minute, so I'll just stop there.
I definitely think intelligance yes but I use HEad and SHoulders and go carts, not gasoline sometimes too. Is that okay?
huh?
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