Classement de l'évaluateur: 226
Votes utiles reçus relativement à des chroniques et des listes:
84% (102 sur 122)
Surnom : doomsdayer520
Emplacement: Pennsylvania
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AS OF MAY 2009 I AM NO LONGER PROVIDING COMMUNITY CONTENT FOR AMAZON. From 2001 to 2009 I provided Amazon with 1,275 reasoned and honest product reviews, and it was a hobby that I took seriously and also enjoyed immensely. But the changes Amazon has made to the Community network in the past several months have finally sapped my enjoyment in helping Amazon's customers make purchasing decisions. T… Lire la suiteAS OF MAY 2009 I AM NO LONGER PROVIDING COMMUNITY CONTENT FOR AMAZON.
From 2001 to 2009 I provided Amazon with 1,275 reasoned and honest product reviews, and it was a hobby that I took seriously and also enjoyed immensely. But the changes Amazon has made to the Community network in the past several months have finally sapped my enjoyment in helping Amazon's customers make purchasing decisions.
The Community network is now saddled with an incomprehensible voting system that casts suspicion on honest positive votes but legitimizes negative trolling campaigns. Amazon's recent reconfiguration of message boards also indicates that the company sees serious reviewers not as a knowledgeable community of enthusiasts, but as a faceless army of free copywriters.
The current system rewards mediocrity and backbiting, and dismisses knowledge and honesty. Good luck to the classic reviewers who are sticking with it, and any new reviewers who would like to embark on a hobby of serious and fulfilling self-expression.
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Classement de l'évaluateur: 226 - Total des votes utiles : 102 sur 122
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I am a graduate student researching the political structure (or political economy) of the media, and have found the works of Robert McChesney to be very influential for my studies. Here he analyzes how the corporate control of the modern media affects American democracy, and his insights into these areas are both illuminating and shockingly obvious, with a real knack for bringing out common sense enlightenment in understanding the nonsensical behavior and structure of the media. McChesney strongly argues that the media is the one industry most closely connected to the democratic health of the nation, because a democracy functions best when the citizens are well informed. Thus public, and… Lire la suite
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The lackluster quote above is from a sampled old-school voice used to introduce one of the tracks on this album, and accidentally illustrates the rather unenthusiastic, noncommittal nature of the record. This is a significant step backward from the sprawling and adventurous Phrenology, as The Roots have settled back into a minimalist sound, based on lazy classic soul grooves, with very conventional old-school raps. The lyrics offer few surprises and are mostly form over function (such as "cool like a polar bear colony"), while Black Thought's delivery is competent yet utterly unexciting. The Roots' awesome secret weapon, ?uestlove, is also underutilized. His booming natural drums… Lire la suite
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The most important outcome of the Velvet Revolver project is that it has returned Slash, one of rock's all-time greatest guitarists, to public awareness. The world has been deprived of Slash's brilliance for far too long, and this album gives us an ecstatic helping of his maximalist riffs and blazing solos. Meanwhile, Duff has become a much more forceful and funky bassist, and Matt Sorum is swinging to a surprising degree. I'm not too familiar with Dave Kushner's background, but he has a strong underground pedigree and here he strongly holds down the fort whenever Slash goes off on a rampage, which is quite often. Velvet Revolver offers a slamming mix of classic trashy hard rock and current… Lire la suite
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