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"dumbing down" Definitions
  1. the process of making something less accurate or educational, and of worse quality, by trying to make it easier for people to understand
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This is the dumbing down of diplomacy, the dumbing down of foreign policy.
"We cannot have this perpetual dumbing down," he told me.
I think that "dumbing down" flavors at restaurants is bullshit too.
They feel like a dumbing down of Apple's power user operating system.
Because the folks in these communities have noticed this dumbing down, too.
I think that the dumbing-down of America has truly become complete.
Dumbing down the culture doesn't serve democracy well; it only coarsens it further.
"We're not dumbing down that music," Mr. Evan said of his classical selections.
Biden said Trump is "dumbing down the presidency" and coddling up to dictators.
And have we finally reached the pinnacle of the dumbing down of the conversation?
It is disrespectful and dumbing down to tell athletes to shut up and play.
Bill Maher thinks Stan Lee is partly to blame for the dumbing down of America.
Getting rid of these, as Left-Hand Path does, isn't necessarily dumbing down the game.
The dumbing-down of American life, as traced by McLuhan and his descendants, suggests the latter.
This is actually dumbing down the entire country and our ability to compete on the international stage.
Would it mean that Apple is "dumbing down" the Mac to make it more like the iPad?
Many feel that the once-prestigious Oscars are dumbing down to the level of the MTV Awards.
But he lamented that like all developments in shifting, it is another step in dumbing down the process.
Of course, it is hard to resist the notion that Netflix's decision represents some kind of dumbing down.
A combination of dumbing down, as you said earlier, and stirring people's emotions in a very unhealthy way.
Silicon Valley giants spent much of 2018 being accused of inflaming, radicalizing, dumbing down and squeezing the masses.
In the same vein, mathematics faculties at both high schools and colleges dismiss numeracy as dumbing down or demeaning.
The use of spaces is just indicative of the dumbing down of programming; tabs will make America great again.
This is bigger than the individual candidates, bigger than a broken system, bigger than the dumbing down of America.
Bedell says he's learned to "refrain from dumbing down his language online because "people are hungry for this rigorous information.
A trend of vegan and plant-based diets could be "dumbing down" future generations, according to a prominent UK nutritionist.
Lawmakers are taking a look at legislation to improve cybersecurity in critical infrastructure by dumbing down the nation's smart grid.
"Wishbone" earned praise for not censoring or dumbing down the material it adapted, and earned a Peabody and multiple Emmys. 
He was dismayed that conglomerates were acquiring publishing houses and resented what he called the dumbing down of international culture.
Here's Dr. Oz dumbing down Rob Gronkowski's season-ending back injury, 'cause we know all that medical talk can be confusing sometimes.
Rich with multileveled allusions, the raps confront gentrification, nativism, the dumbing-down of hip-hop and the rise of Donald J. Trump.
If this meanspirited dumbing-down succeeds, ostensibly to help America be great again, it will be a triumph of technique over purpose.
So much of politics and advertising consists of dumbing down the message, playing on fear of the right and anger of the left.
Palin, in turn, Feehery argues, "was the real start of the dumbing down of the G.O.P.," a cascading process that led to Trump.
Things that never happened before now happen with such regularity that the numbing and the dumbing down can make a rational human inert.
For all the alleged dumbing down, the people who ran and won in 2010 and 2012 were pretty impressive, a lot of them.
Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.
It's easy to see machine learning as a creativity-killing, bubble-inducing agent invading our Facebook News Feeds and dumbing-down our Netflix habits.
And now, the creator of the roll synonymous with dumbing down Japanese cuisine for North American palates is being honoured by the Japanese government.
With thousands of reputable news sites available to choose from, it's simply lazy to say "all of the media" is dumbing down the debate.
"This is all in the category of dumbing down the criteria for drug approval," said Dr. Jerry Avorn, a professor of medicine at Harvard.
As Brian Strutton of BALPA, their union, puts it, they are frustrated with the "dumbing down" of BA's service after years of cost-cutting.
"Quite honestly, I think you are watering down and dumbing down when you bestow it on someone like Donald Trump," he said via satellite.
Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second ranking Democrat in the chamber, accused the committee of "dumbing down" the judiciary and pressed on Menashi's background.
The museum inaugurated the opening with several exhibitions, each curated with children in mind, but by no means pandering or dumbing down the artistic mission.
"I got into it with one of my colleagues a little bit, who was like, 'I feel like that's dumbing down things,'" Ms. Goerke recalled.
In my 2013 book, Dumbing Down the Courts, I find that the length of Supreme Court confirmation hearings has grown with the expansion of judicial power.
"Quite honestly, I think you are watering down and dumbing down your problem solver label when you bestow it on someone like Donald Trump," he said.
Early on, Fidel warned against dumbing down artistic expression for the masses and urged raising people's intellectual level so they could appreciate the best in the arts.
In the scientific community, the idea of unintelligent parents having more kids and dumbing-down the population is known as the dysgenic fertility theory, according to Ritchie.
This does not mean dumbing down your work or trafficking in clichés — quite the opposite — and besides, Saul has too much respect for the viewer for that.
Once seen as a force for making our lives better and our brains smarter, tech is now accused of inflaming, radicalizing, dumbing down and squeezing the masses.
The British Museum issued an apology after an #AskACurator tweet by Jane Portal, a curator in the museum's department of Asia, was accused of racism and dumbing down.
But dumbing down race to "noise" squanders a pivotal opportunity to say there's a lot more to race, especially in terms of Owens's impact at the Berlin Olympics.
"We're not dumbing down the dishes or the spice levels," said Chat, adding that they are grinding their spice mixtures: 55 Bond Street (Bowery), 212-677-2223, fishcheeksnyc.com.
Thiel and his buddy David Sacks argued that colleges were bowing to political correctness, dumbing down their admissions policies and silencing intellectual dissent in the "name of diversity."
Often, when a entertainment property reaches that kind of mainstream success, particularly with a streamlined take like Pokémon Go, fans worry about the dumbing down of their beloved games.
This generation of progressives, to achieve lasting success, must accept that simplicity and popularity are not a dumbing-down of policy, but rather the unavoidable requirement for its success.
"By dumbing down news, converting 'debates' into circuses, and using loaded hashtags, the media has allowed the social contract guaranteeing its freedoms to fray," Gupta wrote in an opinion piece.
There were no flying cars and domed cities, as promised in Popular Science; rather, there was a dumbing down of the population engineered by right-wing politicians, televangelists, and Madison Avenue.
In every respectable institution in America, merit, hard work, and effectiveness lead to advancement, but in Congress, dumbing down our leaders to "dial for dollars" during the work day leads to advancement.
" Assessment culture is dumbing down universities, he said: "One of the horrible things is that many universities think that giving access to nontraditional students means turning a university into a high school.
In some ways it's related to the dumbing down of so much of life: an instant pudding interior so you don't have to think about what you want or define your personality.
But for all the war on facts and dumbing down of debate we see in the West right now, we should recognize that our concerns are almost quaint compared with much of the world.
But A Star Is Born has something more substantial to say about what it means to be a star, beyond the dumbing down of lyrics that earns Ally a spot on Saturday Night Live.
No, this is more a question of whether Garoppolo's presence—and the potential for dumbing down the offense sans Brady—will limit the effectiveness of Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, Dion Lewis, Martellus Bennett, et al.
I think the political situation and the media played a massive part of dumbing down the people and totally disenfranchising them from politics, and making people not wanting to be involved or being aware.
Her "plans," if they are looked at outside the prism of the European socialist movement, should be seen as a recipe for dumbing down our entrepreneurial culture and radically reducing our standard of living.
The tension goes both ways: hardcore fans are anxious that Let's Go represents a dumbing down of the franchise, while Go players are nervous about how Game Freak will add complexity back into the mix.
Twitter could work harder to fight hate speech, but that wouldn't solve other difficult problems like ideological echo chambers and a general dumbing down of the national conversation, because those are also happening in real life.
To help speed the release of information, American analysts are being encouraged to "write to release" — mostly meaning stripping information of sources and methods to ensure broader and faster distribution to partners without dumbing down the content.
Bien sûr, this is all intended as riotous summer fun (though the best fun is in mocking it), but there is some icky dumbing down of art here based in carefree privileged action that we need to unpack.
After examining the rendering of "Bouquet of Tulips," it is apparent to me that this is a shiny red herring used to justify the dumbing-down of art, bending art toward the low hanging fruit of reductive simplification.
Sure, it would be easy to accuse the publisher of dumbing down high school textbooks, but if describing rockets as the "US Space Team's Uper Goer Five" is what it takes to get kids into STEM, it's probably worth it.
Mike Judge's bleak 236 satire takes a pair of ordinary people from the present (Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph) 19783 years into the future, where they learn that natural selection has resulted in an epic-level dumbing down of America.
Moreover, it was thought that people with lower scores would have more kids than people with high IQ scores, which would contribute to a decline in IQ scores over time and a "dumbing down" of the general population, according to Rogeberg.
Yet The Swerve doesn't promote the humanities to a broader public so much as it deviously precipitates the decline of the humanities, by dumbing down the complexities of history and religion in a way that sets a deeply unfortunate precedent.
" He told the BBC that British Airways has "lost the trust and confidence of pilots because of cost-cutting and the dumbing down of the brand" and criticized management for seeking to "squeeze every last penny out of customers and staff.
Some doubtless will frown and curl the lip, accusing the Swedish Academy of deserting its high standards, dumbing down, succumbing to populism or making a bid to escape the charge of being elitist -- even though by any measure every prize is unavoidably.
While it's true that the sorts of designers that formed the audience Bdeir imagined weren't likely to be electrical engineers or professional programmers, the core product wouldn't be subject to any of the dumbing down we often associate with mainstream children's products.
In essence, the concept of the "Gorilla Channel" is one of those quintessentially meta-memes tied to current discourse around politics and reality creation, one that playfully calls out uneasy aspects of society — in this case, the relationship between the president, reality TV, and the dumbing down of American culture.
In a blog post from earlier this year, Andrew Lekashman, a cofounder of the keyboard enthusiast community Input Club, put mainstream technology's dumbing-down of the keyboard into stark terms: Input Club, founded by a group of fans of input devices, was built around the general idea of introducing new thinking to the keyboard space.
"The corporation has come under fire for further 'dumbing down' the annual festival by booking a string of pop acts in a bid to attract younger audiences," wrote the Daily Mail in 2014, when the Pet Shop Boys and the "Match of the Day" TV show theme were announced as being on the concert menu.
Ms Rabl-Stadler believes that they can, and that it doesn't require a "dumbing down" of the material: as long as people have decided they're going to spend a week at a far-away festival, she says, they're also more willing to try out new musical fare than at home, where they'd rather spend their evening at the opera listening to Verdi than a newly-commissioned opus.
One could argue that there's a discussion to be had about Hill's comments, one that goes beyond just what was said but also addresses race, politics, and the way Trump has stoked those fires since he announced his candidacy with comments about Mexico sending "rapists" to the U.S. But this is 22017 so it's all devolved into a chaotic echo chamber of name-calling and the further dumbing down of discourse.
Vice President Biden on Monday blasted Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE for "dumbing down" the election as he took aim at the media for opting to cover the GOP presidential nominee's comments and rhetoric over the candidate's policy proposals.
Olson has been criticized for potentially "dumbing down" serious science issues. His response is that his critics fail to grasp the difference between "dumbing down" and concision.
The bulletin faced criticism from certain quarters with BBC News being accused of "dumbing down" their news content by condensing the day's news into a brief format.
More malevolent uses of dumbing down to preserve the social order are also portrayed in The Matrix, Nineteen Eighty-Four and many dystopian movies. The social critic Paul Fussell touched on these themes ("prole drift") in his non-fiction book Class: A Guide Through the American Status System (1983) and focused on them specifically in BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991). The musical groups The Divine Comedy, Ugly Duckling, and Lupe Fiasco each have a song titled "Dumb It Down". Chumbawamba released one titled "Dumbing Down".
Shenkman argues that voters are repeatedly and systematically misled and manipulated by politicians, and he analyzes the "dumbing down" of American politics arising from the saturation of marketing, spin machines and misinformation in American political culture.
Available at: [Accessed 3 Aug. 2020]. p. 44 However, within the field of computer science, artificial stupidity is also used to refer to a technique of "dumbing down" computer programs in order to deliberately introduce errors in their responses.
Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, and cinema, news, video games, and culture. Originated in 1933, the term "dumbing down" was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: "[to] revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence". Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter, and usually involves the diminishment of critical thought by undermining standard language and learning standards; thus trivializing academic standards, culture, and meaningful information, as in the case of popular culture. In Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1979), the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) proposed that, in a society in which the cultural practices of the ruling class are rendered and established as the legitimate culture, said distinction then devalues the cultural capital of the subordinate middle- and working- classes, and thus limits their social mobility within their own society.
The current head of the station is Aodán Ó Dubhghaill. Recent schedule changes have caused some dissent amongst listeners and the station has been accused of dumbing down. A petition was also launched to save the Sunday early morning programme "Gloria" presented by Tim Thurston.
A compilation of essays by philosophers, politicians, artists and thinkers titled Dumbing Down was published by Imprint Academic in 2000, edited by Ivo Mosley and included essays by Jaron Lanier, Claire Fox, Ravi Shankar, Robert Brustein, Michael Oakshott, Roger Deakin and Peter Randall-Page among others.
Study of Mathematics is compulsory up to the school leaving age. In general females, more than males, suffer from mathematical anxiety. An adverse form of mathematical anxiety is called dyscalculia. Since the introduction of the GCSE, dumbing down has reduced the content of the Mathematics syllabus.
Less documentary than > "amusementary," the film is the best evidence for its own message—that > dumbing down is a smart strategy. In a culture where reality is faked, and > intelligence is the ultimate taboo, Stupidity fits right in. Lewis Black hosted the World Stupidity Awards in 2004 and 2005.
Some music journalists have also discussed the song's meaning, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writing that the lyrics "strike out against the slow dumbing down of America", while Aaron Burgess of The A.V. Club asserted that the song accuses United States President George W. Bush of fascism.
Nadine has been criticized many times. In August 2017, Layal Abboud condemned an issue of Nadine Magazine for its depiction of her chest and face shape with the words, "Bigger than this chest" emblazoned on its cover, accused the magazine of trying to increase readership by dumbing down and oversimplifying its content.
TV critic Walt Belcher of the Tampa Tribune described the Future Predator as "an apelike and skull- headed thing that sort of represents the ultimate dumbing down of the human race"WALT BELCHER. (7 August 2008). Time Portal Drama In London Rips Open A Whole Batch Of Zoological Adventures. Tampa Tribune,2.
SMG said: "[We] are pulling out of GMTV because it did not want to hold a minority interest in someone else's media business". In 2005, presenter Eamonn Holmes left the station. It was later exposed he was deeply unhappy with the "dumbing down and commercialisation", which resulted in him hating his bosses.
The "English Baccalaureate Certificate", or EBC, was a suggested exam system to replace the GCSE in England. After analysis, following professional criticism, the concept was dropped. It was never implemented. According to the Coalition Government spokespersons, Nick Clegg and Michael Gove, the (supposed) dumbing down of GCSEs was one of the motivating factors.
In 2000, Mosley's first work of non-fiction, Dumbing Down, a collection of essays and interviews on the concept of dumbing down, was published on Imprint Academic. Contributors to the publication include Michael Oakshott, Ravi Shankar, Phillip Rieff, Robert Brustein, Roger Deakin, Adam Boulton, Peter Randall- Page, Claire Fox, John Ziman and Jaron Lanier. He followed this in 2003 with Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order, and a second book about democracy, In The Name of the People published by Imprint Academic in 2013. In this book Mosley clarifies the distinction between representative government and rule by the people, along with the former's dangers, citing works such as The History of the Origins of Representative Government (1821/22) by François Guizot, later prime minister of France.
Harm K. Schutte & Jan G. Svec. (2007) Reaction of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica on the Current Trend of Impact Factor Measures, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, Vol.59 p.281-285 Other critics, especially those among the Group of Eight, saw these reforms as "dumbing down" higher education, as college diploma students became university graduates overnight.
Americans may be stereotyped as ignorant of countries and cultures beyond their own. This stereotype shows them as lacking intellectual curiosity, thus making them ignorant of other cultures, places, or lifestyles outside of the United States. The idea of American students dumbing down is attributed to the declining standards of American schools and curricula.
The programme has received a mixed reception. The Daily Mirror wrote that, "While many of us moan about TV dumbing down, attempts like this to dumb-up, as it were, leave you confused about whether to start laughing or cramming." However, the website UKGameShows.com were more critical, in particular of the "Factoid Frenzy" round.
Criticisms of ARRL have included its support for less strict licensing requirements in the 2000s, which opponents consider a "dumbing down" of amateur radio or making it more like CB radio, moves allegedly made to gain additional membership.Moseson, Rich (2004). "They Just Want to Make More Money..." Zero Bias editorial column. CQ Amateur Radio.
Anne Diamond (born 8 September 1954) is an English radio and television presenter. She hosted Good Morning Britain on TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick, alongside co-presenter Nick Owen. However, her presenting style has attracted accusations of "dumbing down". On Day 1, Anne was second to enter the house.
With this success, however, have come accusations of dumbing down. For instance, Tout le monde en parle replaced the long-running Sunday night arts series Les Beaux Dimanches. News programming is anchored by Le Téléjournal, which airs nightly at 10:00 p.m. Local newscasts, which air during the lunch and supper hours, now also carry the Téléjournal name, i.e.
It's hard to tell, and I think that's the good part about it. Look, > you're always going to get labeled with something. Stoner rock is kind of a > dumbing-down label, and that's why I don't gravitate toward it. On multiple occasions, Homme has also referred to the song as a "social experiment" in regards to how the public would approach it.
It has been significant presence in the general outlook of many historical cultures: things are "going to the dogs", the Golden age is in the past, and the current generation is fit only for dumbing down and cultural careerism. Some significant formulations have gone beyond this, proposing a universally-applicable cyclic model of history—notably in the writings of Giambattista Vico.
In the 1970s, Furedi co-founded the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The RCP was distinguished by its commitment to theoretical elaboration and hostility to state intervention in social life. Furedi is associated with the web journal Spiked Online. Furedi maintains that society and universities are undergoing a politically driven 'dumbing down' process which is manifest in society's growing inability to understand and assess the meaning of risk.
Volume Series production was a controversial move because it took a large part of the Drama budget away from original production and contributed to accusations of "dumbing down" its programming. "The decision to show EastEnders four nights a week, followed by Holby City has left the corporation open to accusations that the BBC1 schedule has been cleared for a diet of 'precinct pulp'," reported The Guardian in 2003.
In order to get favorable ratings, teachers are likely to present the content which can be understood by the slowest student. Consequently, the content has been affected. Many of those who are critical of SETs have suggested that they should not be used in decisions regarding faculty hires, retentions, promotions, and tenure. Some have suggested that using them for such purposes leads to the dumbing down of educational standards.
Novelist Anne Haverty, while reviewing one of his books, wrote: "But this man is an arbiter of literature. It's like finding Jamie Oliver munching on Big Macs". She expressed sadness that Sutherland is "only mildly exercised by the most dangerous aspect of publishing now — its capitulation to dumbing down and the manipulation of public taste". And on "the actual content of novels, he limits himself, perhaps wisely, to generalities".
This has led to accusations of ITV 'dumbing down' their programmes and appealing to the 'lowest common denominator', accusations that are at odds with the network's status as a public service broadcaster. ITV was/is also heavily criticised for scaling back its regional programmes, including regional news, also ITV has been criticised (since 2010) for showing Emmerdale and Coronation Street at the 8:30 weekday slot (except Tuesdays).
In 2010, Gabriel called the speeches of Thilo Sarrazin, his party colleague who wrote critically about immigration by accusing Muslims of refusing to integrate and of “dumbing down” German society,Michal Slackman (September 9, 2010), German Banker Resigns Amid Outcry New York Times. "verbal violence". He stated that although Sarrazin described many things that were accurate, his conclusions did not fit into the egalitarian “ideals” of Social Democracy anymore.
Joel Peissig is an American film director. He signed to Ridley Scott Associates production company in 2001. He was in the New Directors Showcase at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival of 2002. He is widely known for his award-winning Resfest music video of Frou Frou's "Dumbing Down of Love" (2003), and in 2005 he directed the video for Imogen Heap's Grammy nominated single "Hide and Seek".
Other political parties, the Austrian People's Party in particular, remain firmly in favour of the current system, claiming that a comprehensive middle school could not accommodate for different levels of capability and talent. They fear a general "dumbing down" of secondary education as a result. Owing to the particular nature of Austria's educational laws (a two-thirds majority is required, see above) a multi-party consensus is needed to change the status quo.
This goal-oriented, structured, strategic communication, is believed to drive operational excellence in organizations, as it reduces the clutter and mixed messages that sometimes afflict communications through organizational layers. Message discipline is criticised by educated voters who see it as a method of obfuscation from what the electorate sees as important. Overly simplistic and repeated communications of the message is seen as dumbing down and can meet with cynicism of the electorate.
Former contestants Lucinda Ledgerwood and James Max have criticised the tasks on the show as being too heavily sales- focused and designed for entertainment rather than as tests of all-round business skills. A number of people have criticised the show's editing and production methods. Contestants Syed Ahmed and Tre Azam accused the show of dumbing down their appearances for entertainment. Gerri Blackwood said that her boardroom scene was filmed again to make it look better.
Carole Rifkind (June 23, 1935 – July 22, 2019) was an American architecture critic, architectural historian, author, educator and filmmaker. Her books concern architectural history as well as the negotiation between the built environment and people within the urban landscape.Carole Rifkind, "America's Fantasy Urbanism: The Waxing of the Mall and the Waning of Civility," in Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture edited by Katharine Washburn and John F. Thornton. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
Context sensitive actions may be perceived as dumbing down of the user interface - leaving the operator at a loss as to what to do when the computer decides to perform an unwanted action. Additionally non-automatic procedures may be hidden or obscured by the context sensitive interface causing an increase in user workload for operations the designers did not foresee. A poor implementation can be more annoying than helpful – a classic example of this is Office Assistant.
"End of an era as Ray quits Nine" , The Age, 7 February 2008. On 28 March 2008 it was announced that Martin would lead the official broadcast of the World Youth Day event in Sydney from 15 to 20 July 2008. In October 2008, Martin criticised the Nine Network and other commercial television operations during an address at the annual Andrew Olle Media Lecture. The subject of Martin's criticism was an alleged "dumbing down" of journalism and news coverage.
Tassano, F., Mediocracy: Inversions and Deceptions in an Egalitarian Culture, Oxford: Oxford Forum, 2006. The book argues that both ‘dumbing down’ in the popular media, and the obscurantism prevalent in academic discourse, are manifestations of the same underlying ideology: one which appears egalitarian but in reality is designed to privilege a paternalistic elite and exclude those who might criticise it. Mediocracy received favourable reviews from a number of online commentators. Johnathan Pearce of the libertarian website Samizdata called it 'a rather fine book'.
Harold's weather forecasts also aired on WBAP radio, where overnight personality Bill Mack nicknamed him "The World's Greatest Weatherman". Much in the style of Chicago weathercaster Tom Skilling, Taft resisted dumbing down of his presentations, explaining complicated meteorological concepts in layman's terms where needed and enhancing charts with isobars and upper-level diagrams. This was occasionally a source of conflict with KXAS producers. When new management at KXAS planned to replace Taft in the early 1980s, a grassroots campaign bombarded the station with complaints.
Barr began writing about personal computing in 1994, and primarily about Linux and open source in 1998, when he began writing for IDG's LinuxWorld.com. The MPlayer project made him even better known by dedicating a derogatory page to him in their documentation after he wrote a piece entitled MPlayer: The project from hell. In 2001, Barr was awarded a Silver Medal by the American Society of Business Publication Editors in the category of Original Web Commentary for his LinuxWorld.com article entitled Dumbing Down Linux.
In 1970, streaming was completely scrapped in favour of total egalitarianism. Another aspect of egalitarian thought was that many school traditions were dropped and in the 1970s there were no awards for academic achievement, in order not to demoralise low achievers. Dr Rushworth, who became head in 1971, nevertheless favoured high achievement in niche areas, and himself continued to teach Latin to children who requested lessons. His motto was "Everyone should know about everything," and critics saw this as leading to a dumbing down of the curriculum.
A video was made for a fourth single from the album, the closer "The Dumbing Down of Love", directed by Joel Peissig (who later directed Heap's solo video "Hide and Seek"). After touring the record extensively across the United States, where the duo had established a cult fan base, Frou Frou disbanded in 2003. The song "Let Go" was sampled in Wiz Khalifa's 2010 single, "In the Cut" (from the Kush & Orange Juice mixtape). The song "Let Go" was also on the soundtrack for the 2004 movie Garden State.
Rick Shenkman analyzes the media's impact on politics in his book, Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter, and observes that American voters have gained significant political power over the last 50 years, though they are more vulnerable to manipulation as their knowledge of politics and world affairs have decreased. He also claims that "politicians have repeatedly misled voters" by "dumbing down of American politics via marketing, spin machines, and misinformation". John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the first televised presidential candidates' debate. 1960.
Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch is the chairman of Fox Corporation, the owner of Fox News. He has been a subject of controversy and criticism as a result of his extensive interests in print and broadcast media. In the United States, he is the publisher of the New York Post newspaper and the magazine The Weekly Standard. Accusations against him include the "dumbing down" of news and introducing "mindless vulgarity" in place of genuine journalism, and having his own outlets produce news that serve his own political and financial agendas.
He initiated the Paul Hamlyn Learning Resource Centre at the Slough campus (now sold), and introduced new areas of study including courses in performance rock music, and digital technologies, computer animation and games. Though such courses are now commonplace, at the time they were held up as examples of "dumbing down" and lowering of standards. Fitzgerald's changes, while prescient in many ways, were instituted rapidly. They were opposed by the staff union of TVU because they led to negative terms and conditions for employees, and poorer and rapidly changing conditions for academics.
So it is a more expensive form of education. It may well be an excellent education, but it is undoubtedly a more expensive form of education."Melbourne University makes its pitch for the next generation of students Stateline transcript, 20 April 2007. Accessed 14 November 2008 Queensland University of Technology economist, Paul Frijters, pointed to the Melbourne Model's "risk that there will be a dumbing down of content" in degrees taught and the fact that many UoM undergraduates come from private high schools "offering them scholarships will have a fairly limited effect.
Of American novelists, he declared in 2003 that "there are four living American novelists I know of who are still at work and who deserve our praise"."Dumbing Down American Readers", Boston Globe, September 24, 2003. He claimed that "they write the Style of our Age, each has composed canonical works," and he identified them as Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, and Don DeLillo. He named their strongest works as, respectively, Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49 and Mason & Dixon; American Pastoral and Sabbath's Theater; Blood Meridian; and Underworld.
He lived alone for his last decades in Eye, Suffolk, the last surviving member of the group of Roman Catholic intellectuals and artists that included David Jones, Tom Burns and Rene Hague, Eric Gill's son in law. The concept of dumbing down always appalled him and he wrote a very caustic and persuasive paper De procliviate ad levitatem (of a propensity towards shallowness) during the later part of his life. Grisewood was a worldly ascetic whose changeling quality can be seen in David Jones's portrait in National Museum Wales.
However the full commercial release of the record was ultimately cancelled due to legal wrangles. In 2005 The Young Punx produced a satirical remake of Mylo's "Destroy Rock & Roll" entitled "Destroy Celebrity Crap" which replaced the original's list of 1980s pop stars with a list of the main celebrities who were currently dominating the UK media in a lighthearted backlash against the dumbing down celebrity focus of the media. Distributed for free on mp3, the track received in excess of 20,000 downloads within one week after exposure in Popbitch newsletter.
An American, she has a very forceful personality and has a reputation as a very persuasive saleswoman. Peter Piper is a struggling and unpublished author, who has been writing the same book, Search for a Lost Childhood, for at least 10 years. He has a very strong conviction that literature is a worthy and high art, and deplores trash fiction and the dumbing down of commercial fiction. He only reads what he considers the great authors, and borrows the style of the author he is currently reading for the latest draft of his book.
As the filming went on, Ellison grew disenchanted with the budget cuts, details that were changed, and what he characterized as a progressive dumbing down of the story. Ellison's dissatisfaction extended to the new title of the pilot episode; he had titled it "Phoenix Without Ashes" but it was changed to "Voyage of Discovery". Before the production of the pilot episode was completed, Ellison invoked a clause in his contract to force the producers to use his alternative registered writer's name of "Cordwainer Bird" on the end credits. Sixteen episodes were made.
The new pope will also be "the best antidote against the dumbing down of Catholicism," Reverend Navone said. "I think he is going to demand more quality and better preparation for teachers in Catholic universities." Reverend Navone said that the new pope was "an extremely intelligent traditionalist" and at the same time a modest man whose talents had been eclipsed by "the showman pope." He said that it was providential that the new pope's first trip outside Italy would be to a world youth festival in Cologne this August.
The Bantam Books edition of Caged Bird was a bestseller for 36 weeks, and they had to reprint 400,000 copies of her books to meet demand. Random House, which published Angelou's hardcover books and the poem later that year, reported that they sold more of her books in January 1993 than they did in all of 1992, marking a 1,200 percent increase.Gillespie et al, p. 142. The book's reception has not been universally positive; for example, author Francine Prose considers its inclusion in the high school curriculum as partly responsible for the "dumbing down" of American society.
ACS is notable for its record of success in academic competitions at the state and national levels in mathematics, science, geography, and other subjects. ACS was recognized as a Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education in 1988. Avery Coonley attracted national media attention in 1994 when the school was banned from competition in the Illinois State Science Fair after winning for the fourth year in a row. Although the decision was later reversed, the controversy was decried by the press as an example of the "dumbing down" of education and the victory of self-esteem over excellence in schools.
On 15 September 2010, BSkyB announced that it would close Channel One and its sister channels Bravo and Bravo 2. Sky cited the similarity of Channel One's content to that of Sky3, which similarly provided Freeview viewers a taste of content previously available to Sky subscribers. However, many Freeview viewers criticised Sky for deliberately dumbing down their Freeview offerings in an attempt to gain more subscribers for their Sky TV service. Sky3 in particular, was perceived by many viewers for constantly being full of tired original Sky programming, while Sky Sports News was removed from the Freeview service.
In 1983, she returned to England to become controller of children's programmes at Thames Television. She was critical of what she saw as the dumbing down of television, believing it had lost its confidence both as an educator of children's minds and as a catalyst for their imaginations. Nevertheless, at Thames she set to work with her usual enthusiasm and energy to try to improve things, and was able to bring some highly stimulating work to the screen. Among this was the series The Wall Game, which had classes of schoolchildren involved in constructional building and improvisation.
These critics also blamed labour's involvement in dumbing-down the campaign, which was seen as the trade unions doing anything to achieve power. It got so bad, that a motion to expel Jolliffe, and David Lewis over these perceived grievances made it on to the convention floor. The motion read, "the campaign tactics of the 1945 election had been decided by Mr. Jolliffe with the advice of Mr. Lewis and the democratic processes within the CCF had been ignored." It was defeated, but it also demonstrated that the party's establishment had angered its socialist militant base.
Obviousman's secret identity is Mark Cohen, a California realtor and amateur magician, who has taken on a mission in life of freeing the people from the curse of mindless obedience to the dictates of the mass media, and to at least slow, if not reverse, the dumbing down of America. His nemesis is Professor Obfuscate. In the book Non Sequitur's Sunday Color Treasury, Miller stated that he named Obviousman's true identity after a friend who had died of cancer in 1999. The real Mark Cohen was a realtor and an avid collector of comics and original comic book art.
The show, in all its absurdities, is a theatrical manifestation of our collective psyche in processing the unthinkable. One can't help but appreciate the profound genius in staging a show of such outrageous cosmic conceit.” Dangerous Minds’ Howie Pyro wrote, “In these days of modern mass paranoia and casual racism, over-sensitivity and dumbing down of all things, even I had a flash of looking behind me (as I saw others do) and wondering if this was cool to like, who was getting offended, who was laughing, and right then at that moment I realized I have been way more affected by all this modern bullshit than I thought.
70 The more independent cultural publications were less positive, Berliner Börsen-Courier wrote that the serial did not rise above the average feature and that it lacked a sense of greatness, strength and depth. George Gottholt, writing in the Freie Deutsche Bühne, was very negative in his views, stating "This film, and others like, it have a vulgarizing effect on the taste and a dumbing-down effect on the intellect of its audience."Carjels (2011) p.71 Carjels compares The Mistress of the World to a modern globe-trotting adventure story more akin to an Indiana Jones or Lara Croft film, rather than a more intellect take such as Madame Dubarry.
On 11 February 2009 Crosby resigned from his post at the Financial Services Authority, which BBC News Business Editor Robert Peston says he understood was to protect the FSA from controversy. The FSA released a statement late on 11 February 2009 that it had concerns about HBOS before the Moore resignation, a statement which raises yet more questions about the regulation of HBOS. A central problem concerns conflict of interests between board members of the FSA and the companies it is trying to regulate. However, Moore has received support from a former member of his team at HBOS, Anthony Smith, who on 17 February 2009, accused HBOS of "dumbing down".
The 2SH explains the features of the triple tradition by proposing that both Matthew and Luke used Mark as a source. Mark appears more 'primitive': his diction and grammar are less literary than Matthew and Luke, his language is more prone to redundancy and obscurity, his Christology is less supernatural, and he makes more frequent use of Aramaic. The more sophisticated versions of Mark's pericopes in Matthew and Luke must be either the result of those two "cleaning up" Mark, if his is the first gospel, or of Mark "dumbing down" Matthew and/or Luke, if he was later. Critics regard the first explanation as the more likely.
The album was released in 2002 on Universal Records. It was critically acclaimed, but did not achieve mass sales. "Breathe In" was released as the first single internationally, and reached number two on the Italian radio airplay charts, but follow up singles, "Must Be Dreaming" and "It's Good To Be in Love" were never commercially released in the UK. A video was also made for "The Dumbing Down of Love", directed by Joel Peissig (who later directed Heap's solo video, "Hide and Seek"). After touring the record extensively across the United States, where the duo had established a cult fan base, Frou Frou disbanded in 2003.
Expert cell phone users can type 100 Chinese characters per minute (the equivalent of 100 words per minute in the English language). Young women between the ages of 10 and 19 spend almost one hundred minutes (1.65 hours) a day on a cell phone; compared to the national average of 18 minutes. People use cell phones in Japan to find apartments for rent, follow the results of each and every Sumo match, download horoscopes, and check out the most popular pop music songs on the charts. Kanji is now used less frequently thanks to cell phones; leading to a dumbing down of the Japanese language.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails in 2008 In the 90s many electronic acts applied rock sensibilities to their music in a genre which became known as big beat. It fused "old-school party breakbeats" with diverse samples, in a way that was reminiscent of Old school hip hop. Big beat was criticised for dumbing down the electronica wave of the late 1990s. This sound was popularised by British acts such as Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers and from the US The Crystal Method, Überzone and Lunatic Calm.. This period also saw the rise of artists who combined industrial rock and metal.
The bulletin has been accused of being an example of the BBC 'dumbing-down' with more consumer-led reports and dynamic presentation. In particular, in 2006 the then Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw berated the programme's presenters for "prancing around the studio".'Prancing' BBC News hosts berated BBC News, 18 May 2006 The BBC defend the format as they believe that the body language and integration of presenter and graphics increase the viewer's understanding of the news.Newswatch BBC News The bulletin has also been accused of having an English perspective on the news in terms of items covered and priority each news item is given.
Armstrong’s interest in community colleges and his ambition to develop a multi-campus institution offering non-tertiary, part-time study advanced its activities outside the Diploma courses, and establishment of adult education for early school leavers and women especially. He positioned Prahran as a 'comprehensive community college’,Iola Matthews, 'Schools lock out the community,' in The Age, Tuesday, 10 July 1973, p.17 ‘small and human’ running a with student-centred program that sidestepped status distinctions in tertiary education. Though his changes were not universally popular due to unease by some about their ‘dumbing down’ the College, and though he often clashed with VIC, he was generally respected.
She is known for writing the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. The book alleges that changes gradually brought into the American public education system work to eliminate the influences of a child's parents, and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future. She considers that these changes originated from plans formulated primarily by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education and Rockefeller General Education Board, and details the psychological methods used to implement and effect the changes. She also wrote Back to Basics Reform, which documents her experiences working in the U.S. Dept.
A recurring complaint made by critics concerns the "harlequinization" of Austen on the silver screen, which is seen as cheapening and dumbing down Austen for a mass audience. However, Irvine noted that in Austen's own lifetime, her work was popular, but seen as low culture, being lumped in at British libraries together with "popular fiction" books that were the ancestors of the Harlequin romances.Irvine, Robert Jane Austen, London: Routledge, 2005 page 158 The idea that Austen was a high culture writer only started later, and certainly the appeal of the Austen films to many today seems to be that they are seen as a high culture version of Harlequin romances.Irvine, Robert Jane Austen, London: Routledge, 2005 page 158.
Retrieved 13 September 2011. It is often noted that Lang successfully straddles two worlds—classical prodigy and rock- like "superstar", a phenomenon summed up by The Times journalist Emma Pomfret, who wrote, "I can think of no other classical artist who has achieved Lang Lang's broad appeal without dumbing down."Emma Pomfret, "Lang Lang: China's classical superstar", The Sunday Times, 11 April 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2011. Lang's performance style was controversial when he stormed into the classical music scene in 1999. At that time, pianist Earl Wild called him "the J. Lo of the piano." Others have described him as immature, but admitted that his ability to "conquer crowds with youthful bravado" is phenomenal among classical musicians.
However, significant achievement gaps remained between students in high-performing and low-performing school districts, and between white and black students. Education historian Diane Ravitch questioned the legitimacy of Rhee's results, alleging that "cheating, teaching to bad tests, institutionalized fraud, dumbing down of tests, and a narrowed curriculum" were the true outcomes of Rhee's tenure in D.C. schools. Some D.C. parents and community leaders complained that despite these improvements, the speed with which Rhee enacted her reforms left them without input on the changes. The District Council also criticized Rhee for being unresponsive to council members' requests for information about school operations. From 2008 to 2010, Rhee's approval ratings decreased from 59 percent to 43 percent.
Since abandoning the content farm model in 2010, Bleacher Report has been the subject of continued criticism for its exploitation of unpaid contributors, its blanket policy prohibiting writers from breaking their own news, and its high-volume production of low-quality, search-optimized slideshow content. These critiques found their strongest voice to date in an October 2012 SF Weekly article, in which tech columnist and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa was quoted accusing Bleacher Report of "dumbing down of the web" with "custom-manufactured garbage." In December 2012, a lampoon article in The Onion played on the same themes. In July 2014, Deadspin published a lengthy narrative written by Tom Schreier, a former Bleacher Report featured columnist.
Unwin Hyman 1984. Her tenure at TV-am was short lived in part due to fierce competition from the BBC's casually styled Breakfast Time. The loss of viewers resulted in a relaunch which was perceived as "dumbing-down" of the station, and only three months after the station's launch, Ford was dismissed from TV- am partly due to her on-air support for chairman Peter Jay (who had already resigned) and partly because she refused to stand down from Good Morning Britain when the ratings slumped. Ford was involved in an incident at a party in which she threw her wine over Jonathan Aitken to express her outrage over his involvement in her sacking from the channel.
The down-side to Horizons recent focus on "Pure Science, Sheer Drama" and the occasionally forced narrative this engenders has led to some accusations of dumbing down in recent years, with one former editor writing a newspaper article about how the programme concentrates too much on human stories, and not enough on the science. One programme "Chimps are people too" was entirely presented by a non-scientist, Danny Wallace. Editor Andrew Cohen addressed the reasons why the programme went down this route on the Horizon web page. In October 2014, a three-part special – "Cat Watch: the New Horizon Experiment" – was broadcast, following up on Horizons 2013 "The Secret Life of the Cat".
Remarkably, every track on this, Britt's second album, has the potential to become a US/UK mainstream number one hit with sufficient airplay. That success is beginning to show with the album and the title track single both hitting number one on the US Christian charts. With slightly breathy, sultry, intimate verses balanced with powerful choruses, each song radiates such positivity that you wonder how they managed to get the rainbows and sunshine packaged in." Eden wrote "Musically targeted at excitable teenage girls, the Christian aspect is brilliantly natural and portrays God as a normal integrated part of any teenager's life without dumbing down or hyped worship and is a major credit to Britt's songwriting.
MMC was intended to "improve patient care by improving medical education with a transparent and efficient career path for doctors". This followed the publication of the NHS Plan 2000, which committed to increase the number of consultants in the NHS and to "modernise the Senior House Officer (SHO) grade". While these principles received broad support, their implementation has not, largely because the Department of Health has achieved an increase in the number of consultants by reducing the length of training required to reach the grade from an average of 21,000 to just 6,000 hours. This has led to accusations in the press, from regional medical selection committees, and from Remedy UK that it has been a "dumbing-down" process.
Before leaving for London to record with the London Symphony Orchestra, Frank Zappa was home during Christmas season in 1982, and kept busy by writing, producing treatments for three films and a Broadway musical called Thing-Fish. Between 1981 and 1982, Broadway theatre had shifted from conservative musicals to experimental plays that were viewed as either being pretentious or vulgar. Thing-Fish satirized statements made by theater critics at the time, as well as arguing against the "dumbing down" of American culture. Previously, Zappa unsuccessfully attempted to stage two musicals on Broadway, Hunchentoot, which formed the basis for the compact disc reissue of Sleep Dirt, and a musical adaptation of William S. Burroughs' The Naked Lunch.
The Concord Review: A Quarterly Review of Essays by Students of History is an academic journal dedicated to publishing the research papers of high school students. Established in 1987 by William H. Fitzhugh, a Massachusetts educator dismayed with the "dumbing down" of writing standards in American secondary schools, publication in the Review is considered among the most prestigious awards for high school students. Issued quarterly, the journal publishes research monographs on history topics from high school students from any country, as long as they are in English. Submissions are typically 4000 to 5500 words long, and must be accompanied by a subscription fee (ranging from $70-$150) to the journal in order to be considered.
In the 1990s, a time of change in the British television industry, the department went through much internal confusion and external criticism, but since the beginning of the 21st century has begun to return to form with a run of critical and popular successes, despite continual accusations of the drama output and the BBC in general dumbing down. Many BBC productions have also been exported to and screened in other countries, particularly in the United States on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Masterpiece Theatre strand and latterly on the BBC's own BBC America cable channel. Other major purchasers of BBC dramas include the BBC's equivalents in other Commonwealth nations, such as Australia's ABC, Canada's CBC and Gibraltar's Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).
Michael Marlowe criticized the edition, saying that it was "the dumbing- down of the Biblical text to a grade-school level" done "in keeping with the linguistic and educational trends of the time." He adds that "very few scholars have given any encouragement to its [The Living Bible] use, and most have either ignored it or have strictly warned against it." Moreover, he claims that the text of The Living Bible contains "venturesome interpretations that no scholar is likely to approve" and that "[i]n several places Taylor brazenly wrests the scripture so as to conform it to Arminian teachings about salvation." The complaints of Arminian bias in the text from Christians were so numerous that it prompted the publisher, Zondervan, to commission the New Living Translation.
And it doesn't supply a supporting character who undercuts every scene she's in by being more on-topic than any of the leads." Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal also panned the movie, and used his review to deride the state of big-budget film-making, writing: "Films like this ... are emblematic of Hollywood's relentless dumbing-down and defining-down of big-screen attractions. There's an audience for such stuff, but little enthusiasm or loyalty. Adult moviegoers are being ignored almost completely during all but the last two or three months of each year, while even the kids who march off to the multiplexes each weekend know they're getting moldy servings of same-old, rather than entertainments that feed their appetite for surprise and delight.
Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. Ravitch said that "cheating, teaching to bad tests, institutionalized fraud, dumbing down of tests, and a narrowed curriculum" were the true outcomes of Rhee's tenure in D.C. schools."Waiting for Superman" star on cheating scandals CBS News, August 30, 2011, 10:42 AMMichelle Rhee's Terrible Awful Day, Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, Apr 12, 2013Eager for Spotlight, but Not if It Is on a Testing Scandal By MICHAEL WINERIP, New York Times, AUG. 21, 2011FRONTLINE: The Education of Michelle Rhee JOHN MERROW, January 8, 2013 A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal documentary titled The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, which was released in 2011.
The production and presentation team was largely taken from the earlier Channel 4 success Network 7 and had the same editor Charlie Parsons. At the time Club X was commissioned Channel 4’s new Chief Executive Michael Grade was attempting to make the channel’s cultural programming more accessible – a process regarded by some as dumbing down. The Club X format was intended to blend items on relatively high-brow arts with the kind of quirky stories and items that had been features of Network 7, such as feminist pornography. Club X was broadcast live over 23 weeks during Summer 1989 in a Wednesday night 90-minute slot scheduled directly against BBC2’s new arts magazine The Late Show, another production by Network 7 graduates.
The term "mediacracy" was first coined in 1974 by writer and political commentator Kevin Phillips, who used the term in the title of his book Mediacracy: American Parties and Politics in the Communications Age. Since then, the concept has gained popularity and is used by political scientists and researchers alike to discuss the impact of media on both voting behavior and cultural trends. Most recently, the term has seen a resurgence due to the works of economist and author Fabian Tassano. In his book Mediocracy: Inversions and Deceptions in an Egalitarian Culture Tassano argues that the 'dumbing down' of popular media when coupled with increasing obscurity in scholarly discourse leads to a society which has the appearance of egalitarianism, but ultimately is a society ruled by elites.
A string of editors, which included Fred Armentraut, Richard Regis, Jim Callaghan, William C. Franz, Joan Gerstel and Barbara Naness, emphasized four themes in the paper: investigative journalism, comprehensive coverage (Register articles on any particular issue often ran as series), background and analysis, and political independence. A premium was put on good explanatory pieces, and these editors made it a point of pride to avoid "dumbing down" stories. The paper also featured provocative editorials, which made it a bracing antidote to The Advance's more sedate style. As part of its commitment to what might be called aggressive political independence, the paper almost always carried at least one, and often three or four local, exclusive political columnists, but never endorsed a candidate in its editorials.
Some critics accused Wright of "dumbing down" the Proms, against which Wright defended the programme, pointing out that "we're hosting a concert for families that include pieces by Holst, Wagner and Prokofiev." Gardner and Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies decided to create a "mini-episode" of Doctor Who to be shown during the concert, in part because actor David Tennant, who played the Doctor, was unable to participate in the live concert due to his commitments to the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet. Davies incorporated interactive elements into his script to ensure that the live performance was "an event": The official price for pre-booked tickets was £10 for adults and £5 for children. These tickets sold out, and 3,000 people signed up for a waiting list in the event of any cancellations.
The poll was operated by Culturenet Cymru, a Welsh Assembly-funded body based at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. At the time of the results being announced the organisers claimed that the 81,323 nominations and votes made it the largest online poll conducted in Wales. Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, himself named in the poll, had, during the voting, drawn attention to a Welsh nationalist "plot" to have Owain Glyndŵr at number one, rather than the eventual winner, Aneurin Bevan. In August 2004 a former employee of Culturenet Cymru alleged that the poll had been rigged to avoid accusations of "dumbing-down", and to ensure that Owain Glyndŵr did not receive more votes than Aneurin Bevan, although these claims were later dismissed by the Welsh Government.
Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club felt that the album "often plays it safe" and accused Aguilera of "dumbing down her voice or lyrics for the sake of lightweight tunes or prevailing trends." Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly found the album's "self-empowerment anthems ... as contradictory as they are unoriginal" and criticized its production for "digitally smother[ing]" Aguilera's vocals and "draining all the emotion". Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani asserted that because it is "Aguilera's shortest album since her debut, it boasts less filler, but also fewer obvious standouts." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times felt that the album's conventional direction is "its biggest crime, more than its musical unadventurousness or its emphasis on bland self-help lyrics or its reluctance to lean on [...] Aguilera's voice, the thing that makes her special".
The program even had one of the last interviews with Buddy Ebsen discussing his long and unknown singing career. Gimarc continued innovation with Radio Sass (Short Attention Span System), a new protocol for music radio allowing a broadcaster to play up to twice as much music in an hour as was previously possible, by cutting out parts of the song, time-compressing the music and other electronic "slice and dice" techniques. Gimarc is so proud of this new form of "radio formatics" that he has successfully received a pair of U.S. Patents on the technique, the first to ever apply to a radio format. Gimarc promotes the method as "groundbreaking in its approach to streamlining radio for modern listeners", despite the contention of his critics that what Gimarc calls "streamlining" is really "butchering" and "dumbing down".
After selling out the first issue, Gannett gradually expanded the national distribution of the paper, reaching an estimated circulation of 362,879 copies by the end of 1982, double the amount of sales that Gannett projected. The design uniquely incorporated color graphics and photographs. Initially, only its front news section pages were rendered in four-color, while the remaining pages were printed in a spot color format. The paper's overall style and elevated use of graphics – developed by Neuharth, in collaboration with staff graphics designers George Rorick, Sam Ward, Suzy Parker, John Sherlock and Web Bryant – was derided by critics, who referred to it as a "McPaper" or "television you can wrap fish in", because it opted to incorporate concise nuggets of information more akin to the style of television news, rather than in-depth stories like traditional newspapers, which many in the newspaper industry considered to be a dumbing down of content.
Though it was at one time commonplace for networks to create mascots for sports coverage to incorporate an educational and entertaining element into their coverage, which was the case with Peter Puck, Digger was created purely to add entertainment to the broadcast and reach out to a younger audience. Some NASCAR fans accused Fox of dumbing down and fluffing its coverage in order to gain revenue from Digger merchandise sales. Despite continuous outrage from the NASCAR fan community, as well as talk from the NASCAR community that the Fan Council was not pleased with the situation, Fox did not announce any plans to drop the usage of the characters, and even had posted pictures of holiday-themed versions of the Digger die-cast in 2009 and 2010. In response to the comments, in 2010, the Digger cartoon was not shown during pre-race shows and Digger appeared less often at the bottom of the screen.
However, this was not always the case. In fact, in the 1970s the relationship was precisely the opposite when national verbal scores routinely trumped the national math average by similar margins. Since then, the point gap between the math and evidence-based reading and writing (EBRW) tests has closed significantly: the class of 2019 had an average math test score of 528 and an average EBRW score of 531. Because 50 more points are required to meet the math benchmark than the EBRW benchmark, only 48% of the class of 2019 met the math benchmark while 68% met the EBRW benchmark. The first academic analysis of this gap was conducted by James Lech Ed.D., M.T.S.\- Total Dissertation Pages: 34; United States Copyright Office Registration Number: TX 6-534-442; AAT 3263829 Lech posited that this gap could be "collateral damage" from the well-documented academic and social "erosion" known as dumbing-down.
One can't help but appreciate the profound genius in staging a show of such outrageous cosmic conceit.” Dangerous Minds’ Howie Pyro wrote, “In these days of modern mass paranoia and casual racism, over-sensitivity and dumbing down of all things, even I had a flash of looking behind me (as I saw others do) and wondering if this was cool to like, who was getting offended, who was laughing, and right then at that moment I realized I have been way more affected by all this modern bullshit than I thought. We need people like Julien Nitzberg to remind and instill in us that it is not only okay, but quite necessary to think, laugh (at ourselves AND at others) and learn.” The Compton Herald's K. Gerard Thomas and Denise Thomas wrote, “This is a raw, unapologetic, ala Mel Brooks, immensely funny view of Michael Jackson's life, told from the perspective of his best friend – the iconic silver glove.
A North American version of the album with two extra tracks was released August 21, 2001. # "Let It Happen" – 6:20 # "The Charlatan's Lament" – 6:52 # "Is She Conscious?" – 4:41 # "We Are Jonah" – 5:08 # "It's All Gone" – 2:15 # "My Love Is My Rock in the Weary Land" – 8:05 # "Lucky Day/Bad Advice" (Bill Grant, Scott) – 3:06 # "His Word Is Not His Bond" – 3:59 # "Malediction" – 4:16 # "Dumbing Down the World" – 3:06 # "The Wind in the Wires" – 5:33 # "Night Falls on London" – 0:48 # "Crown" – 7:04 # "My Lord What a Morning" (Harry Belafonte, Gene Cormun, Milt Okun) – 2:27 "My Love is My Rock in the Weary Land" on the American edition is edited compared to the UK edition, playing at a slower speed and featuring numerous differences in the outro. "Lucky Day/Bad Advice" features a co-writing credit with Bill Grant, whom Scott befriended while living at Findhorn.
Shortly after the election of Cardinal Ratzinger to the Papacy, Barry James interviewed Father Navone and submitted the article containing the following quotation to The Australian:"A pope for Europe: Theologian – From Correspondents in Rome" The Australian 20 April 2005 A longtime Jesuit theologian in Rome said today Pope Benedict XVI will be a clear doctrinal teacher who will attempt to reaffirm the Roman Catholic Church's roots in Europe and end what he called the "dumbing down" of Christian faith. "We are going to see the real Joseph Ratzinger," said the Reverend John Navone, who teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University. "He is a renaissance man of many qualities, really a profound theologian." Reverend Navone said the choice of the Pope's name taps deep into the roots of European culture and probably was intended to refer to Saint Benedict of Nursia, the 6th-century founder of the Benedictine Order, which preserved Christian civilization and writing through the Dark Ages.
The combination of these two elements made the Micro Adventure books something of an immersion experience. Through the second-person narration, the reader took the part of Orion, a computer expert and agent for the Adventure Connection Team, and followed the action in the continuing struggle against ACT’s nemesis, BRUTE (Bureau of Random Unlawful Terror and Evil). The plots generally resembled those typically found in other works of the secret agent/adventure genre, ranging from sabotage aboard a space station to android doubles of the President of the United States, but stand out for their clever twists and lack of "dumbing down" often found in similar juvenile literature. The programs themselves were actually quite impressive, some even being simple “shoot-em-up” games, yet were all designed to be small (none were over 2K in file size, a must given the limitations of some personal computers available at the time, such as the TI-99/4A) and easily typed in by even the most novice programmer.
CinemaSins has attracted criticism from several filmmakers, including Rian Johnson, Damon Lindelof, C. Robert Cargill, David F. Sandberg, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The filmmakers assert that the channel largely fails as genuine criticism because of its excessive and trivial nitpicking, lack of understanding of the filmmaking process, and its often mean-spirited, reductive nature; as Vogt-Roberts put it, "these guys are just trolling the art form we love and profiting from it while dumbing down the conversation." YouTuber "Bobvids" created a series of videos criticizing specific videos of the series as well as the motivations for the series itself, ranging from specific rebuttals to sweeping. Jeremy Scott has claimed that the series is not supposed to be entirely serious in terms of criticism and that most of his nitpicks are intended as comedy; in their response on June 7, 2014, Scott uploaded "Everything Wrong With CinemaSins", a self-parodying sins video that pokes fun at filmmakers and commenters who have disliked the channel as well as poking fun at the hosts themselves explaining that their videos are filled with sarcasm.
Beginning in the 1940s, intellectuals assailed Popular Front culture, to which Copland's music was linked, and labeled it, in Dickstein's words, as "hopelessly middlebrow, a dumbing down of art into toothless entertainment". They often linked their disdain for Populist art with technology, new media and mass audiences—in other words, the areas of radio, television and motion pictures, for which Copland either had or soon would write music, as well as his popular ballets. While these attacks actually began at the end of the 1930s with the writings of Clement Greenberg and Dwight Macdonald for Partisan Review, they were based in anti-Stalinist politics and would accelerate in the decades following World War II. Despite any difficulties that his suspected Communist sympathies might have posed, Copland traveled extensively during the 1950s and early 60s to observe the avant-garde styles of Europe, hear compositions by Soviet composers not well known in the West and experience the new school of Polish music. While in Japan, he was taken with the work of Toru Takemitsu and began a correspondence with him that would last over the next decade.

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