Cubs Sweep Pirates, 37 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 7 Dead

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Wow

See what I did there?
Ads for the popular and probably-to-be-best-selling-game-of-all-time Grand Theft Auto IV (GTAIV) were put on buses and trains in the city of Chicago, and a crime wave ensued. Because of the ads. Seems pretty reasonable right?
Well according to Fox’s local affiliate in Chicago, it’s exactly what happened:
Last weekend, Chicago saw quite a [...]

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Causation/Correlation

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Wow

My friend Mike who is an Economics PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin sent me a link to a pretty neat Blog by Greg Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard. He spends a lot of time discussing Causation vs. Correlation, which is a pretty big issue in media studies right now as well (especially [...]

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