[Bruce Wang]

Now, it is more like a poor man's version of Pravda from the 50's...

I'm reminded of a Soviet-era saying about Pravda (which means truth) and Izvestia (news): "There's no Truth in the News, and there's no News in the Truth."

Edward Tufte, the visualization of data guru, also had this amusing point about PowerPoint and Pravda.  In a table of median number of data entries in data matrices for statistical graphics in various publications, at the top were Science (>1,000), Nature(>700), NYT (120) and the WSJ (112).  Second worst was 28 textbooks about PowerPoint presentations at 12.  Only Pravda with 5 was worse.

[Bruce Wang]

Now, it is more like a poor man's version of Pravda from the 50's...

I'm reminded of a Soviet-era saying about Pravda (which means truth) and Izvestia (news): "There's no Truth in the News, and there's no News in the Truth."

Edward Tufte, the visualization of data guru, also had this amusing point about PowerPoint and Pravda.  In a table of median number of data entries in data matrices for statistical graphics in various publications, at the top were Science (>1,000), Nature(>700), NYT (120) and the WSJ (112).  Second worst was 28 textbooks about PowerPoint presentations at 12.  Only Pravda with 5 was worse.