The National Review politically incorrect reference guide: your handbook for the right information sources

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (06) ◽  
pp. 31-3033-31-3033

This volume seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focused on the study of right-wing media and conservative news. To date, the study of conservative or right-wing media has proceeded unevenly, cross-cutting several traditional disciplines and subfields, with little continuity or citational overlap. This book posits a new multifaceted object of analysis—conservative news cultures—designed to promote concerted interdisciplinary investigation into the consistent practices or patterns of meaning making that emerge between and among the sites of production, circulation, and consumption of conservative news. With contributors from the fields of journalism studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies, history, political science, and sociology, the book models the capacious field it seeks to promote. Its contributors draw upon a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods—from archival analysis to regression analysis of survey data to rhetorical analysis—to elucidate case studies focused on conservative news cultures in the United States and the United Kingdom. From the National Review to Fox News, from the National Rifle Association to Brexit, from media policy to liberal media bias, this book is designed as an introduction to right-wing media and an opening salvo in the interdisciplinary field of conservative news studies.


Author(s):  
Laurence R. Jurdem

The strain of Black Nationalism that existed within the United Nations also worried conservatives as they monitored the evolution of events in Southern Africa. In their intense desire to rid the world of communism, other issues, such as race, were either marginalized or ignored. The chapter analyzes the three publications’ view of race as it relates to the issue of Rhodesia during the height of the Cold War. In ignoring the suppression of an entire race of people, Human Events and National Review contrasted what they perceived to be a stable, anticommunist, biracial society with the militarism and lawlessness that they argued defined the 1960s and 1970s. While the two conservative publications viewed Rhodesia as a model of biracial success, Commentary focused on the Carter administration’s dismissive attitude about the dangers of Soviet encroachment within the African hemisphere. The Right argued that the Carter White House, in its refusal to endorse Rhodesia’s 1979 parliamentary elections due to a lack of representation of militant nationalist groups, and its belief in the policy of détente, continued to send a message of American weakness and indifference to totalitarianism around the world.


2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 761
Author(s):  
Andy Yam

With the impending release of Edition 2 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard 61511 in Australia, it is timely to revisit the topic of safety instrumented system (SIS) performance monitoring. Operators need to monitor the performance of their SISs to ensure that design assumptions are correct. Any incorrect assumption or error introduced during operation can result in an unsafe plant situation. Questions to consider include: how do operators know their plants are adequately protected; are protection systems performing as required, and do operators need to re-assess the safety of their plant’s process vis-à-vis the implemented safety instrumented systems; what are end-user obligations; how and is it possible to meet these obligations; and what additional requirements are there, and how much more prescriptive is Edition 2? If any of the above questions are of concern, or if plant personnel are aware of their obligation to maintain and monitor the SIS during operations but are still not 100% sure if they are on the right track or need to do more, then this paper will prove useful. In addition to knowing all the requirements to comply, actual implementation and maintenance of a program to monitor the performance of SIS can prove overwhelming. Not only do you need to be adept in maintaining a database, but you also need to understand how to consolidate various critical information sources in order to make sense of all the data collected. Fortunately, there are solutions in the market to help end-users overcome these hurdles to effectively monitor SIS performance. This paper looks at some key areas that a complete solution should cover and what some of the features of such a solution are.


Author(s):  
Laurence R. Jurdem

The book analyzes the influence of National Review, Human Events, and Commentary on the foreign policy ideas of the Republican Party from 1964–1980. During that eighteen-year period, the publications of conservative opinion provided ideological clarification on important national issues that played a fundamental role in reviving the political fortunes of the American Right, culminating in the election of Ronald Reagan. Those who wrote for these publications used their positions to offer suggestions to conservative policy makers that called for a more confrontational approach toward the Soviet Union and the nations that sought to compromise the United States’ interests around the world. In recommending a shift in foreign policy, Human Events, National Review, and Commentary assisted right-wing decision makers by contributing arguments to revive what these publications believed was a weak and indecisive United States that had become uncertain about its role in the world following the defeat in Vietnam. By criticizing policies, such as détente, or the aggressiveness of the Third World within the United Nations, opinion makers on the Right offered conservative political leaders information and analysis that called for the return of American power in the face of an ever more confident Soviet Union.


1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
INA DAM ◽  
THEO BOO ◽  
ELLY LAKWIJK ◽  
JEROEN HOPMAN ◽  
ANTON OORT ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Picazo ◽  
Sergio Moreno-Gil

Making the right impression is paramount to succeed in today’s very competitive market, where photographs have acquired a prominent role in doing so. The evaluation and analysis of destination image have been tackled mainly from the perspective of the tourists’ perceptions. However, the projected image of destinations has received limited attention in the literature and the topic has not yet been successfully operationalized. Moreover, existing literature on the projected image on photographs (PIP) is scattered and lacking of an integral approach. Thus, the aim of this article is to fill this gap by carrying a comprehensive literature review on the destination’s PIP, covering information sources analyzed, destinations included, number of pictures, time framework, methodology, and specially categorization (people, activities represented, and tourism context) and specific attributes used. As a result, this article provides researchers with a reference guide to understand the current situation of the research on this topic, context, methods, and focus of previous studies. Finally, it identifies trends and reflections on future research.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Anna Kahilainen ◽  
Seija Bergman

Introducing best available information sources and services to specialists starting in a new position is one of the tasks of Information Services in Orion Corporation. We developed a deck of cards to help us in finding out training attendants’ information needs and to personalize the training. In this paper we describe the process of creating the cards and how they are used in our training. We also share results of an attendant survey and address other outcomes of the project.


Terminology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Pazienza

Recently, new technologies have combined to produce a sharp increase in the availability of on-line texts and their access involves end-users with different skills. The demand for tools for information retrieval, extraction, organization and integration is becoming more and more pressing to filter relevance and sort the large number of retrieved documents. It is not the amount of information that gives the value but the access at the right time and in the most suitable form to an acceptable amount of relevant documents. Moreover the increasing availability of new information-transmission technologies demands more personal information filtering. Users are no longer interested in standard summaries and choices; they need (and most of the current user interests are on) filters that they can (directly) specify to fit their preferences and requirements. One such approach could only work on information sources dynamically adaptable to changing application needs. As a consequence the interaction between application domains and information sources needs to be stressed. Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools may be helpful in identifying relevant aspects of documents providing not only the identification of morphologic or structural properties of the texts but also stressing what are salient passages in them. The identification of subsentences capturing relevant terms may be a first step to be acquainted with specific topics of a document. The availability of a system able to capture such terms, in different languages and application domains, could optimize users ' requirements.


Author(s):  
Seth Bartee

This chapter discusses the life and work of Paul Gottfried, who is known as the founder of Paleoconservatism, a reformulation of the Right that advocated aspects of the conservatism of Edmund Burke, southern agrarian writers, and the National Review as it was before neoconservatism. His criticism of neoconservatives focused on their belief in the universal imperative of categories and ideas that led them to therefore disparage any kind of historicism. Gottfried maintained both Platonic and biblical categories in his conceptions of truth, beauty, justice, and revelation. He became the foremost critic of the Republican Party and neoconservatism. From 1999 until 2005 he expanded his criticisms of political ideology in the US and Europe. Since 2008 Gottfried has adopted the label of right-wing pluralist and allows most conservative dissidents into his organization, the H. L. Mencken Club, which became associated with the Alt Right during the 2016 presidential election.


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