I’m off to Copenhagen on business today and tomorrow, so no more filing to Davos Newbies. Denmark, incidentally, is the happiest country in Europe according to those who measure social capital.
Rhetorica has some interesting observations on the supposed liberal bias of the US media (interestingly, in the UK the media bias is generally to the right).
“Journalism has a bias for official information. Rosenfeld demonstrates exactly how that bias occurs. Now, it doesn’t matter what party is in power. If the fortunes were switched, then I might have begun this item with a plea for a little conservative bias. The point is that actual ideological bias–perhaps a contrarian bias — might help deepen the political reporting by providing the kind of skepticism that mediates rather than transcribes the ‘first impression’.”