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Dec 9, 20213 min read
Christmas Cartoons
This special holiday episode of LogicCheck is dedicated to an evergreen in political cartooning: the use of Christmas-related images to...
Dec 1, 20213 min read
Memes
While political cartoons have been with us for centuries, a new form of visual communication, the Internet meme, has spread wide and far...
Nov 22, 20216 min read
Political Cartoons
Having discussed the plusses and minuses associated with visual evidence in this just-completed series, I’d like to zero in on a couple...
Nov 12, 20215 min read
Balancing Evidence
Before kicking into a long-delayed closing to this series on evidence, anyone interested in diving deeper into concepts introduced in...
Sep 30, 20213 min read
That Looks Terrible!
Time for a LogicChecker of a recent news story, this one focusing on issues related to visual evidence that I introduced here and here....
Sep 20, 20214 min read
Evidence Beyond Words
In a chapter on media literacy in Critical Voter, I relate human sense perception to different modes of persuasion including logos...
Sep 14, 20214 min read
Anecdotal Evidence
When I said last time that postings would be infrequent over the summer, I didn’t realize that meant they would be non-existent. But fear...
Jul 18, 20215 min read
Statistical Evidence
I forgot to warn readers (since I didn’t realize it myself) that my schedule this summer would be variable, given some personal and...
Jun 23, 20213 min read
What's Your Evidence?
Sorry for the outage the last couple of weeks. My younger son just graduated high school, which meant visits from many relatives and lots...