Comments: A Nice Award, And A Peabody Award Questioned
"if no one pushes the intellectual envelope and if no one asks difficult questions, then nothing ever changes. And things have got to change."
Excellent Philip, keep doing that.
Posted by Stephany at June 24, 2009 11:55 PM
you're not polarizing Philip...the subject matter is polarizing...it's that clean and simple.
I found the way Grohol introduced you rather insulting.
In any case you certainly do deserve to be mentioned and you deserve an award too!
Posted by Gianna at June 25, 2009 05:01 AM
There are two types of motivation, Philip:
Extrinsic motivation- this is incentive...what one pays you or rewards you for work that you do. It's rather Pavlovian and simplistic, considering what we are in fact capable of as humans.
Intrinsic motivation.....
This is your drive, Philip. And your drive is fueled by your conviction, your determination, your persistence. Self-motivation with such powerful emotions that are rational and rare are why you are spoken of highly by others.
Keep up the good work,
Dan
Posted by Dan at June 25, 2009 08:05 PM
You should feel free to question journalism awards. Not wanting to question journalism awards is akin to psychiatrists not wanting to question each other's research findings, or public recognition. Always question. Everything. Also, you say the polarizing effect of your blog has lost you some readers... just so you know, it has me paying rapt attention. I love this blog.
Posted by Anonymous at June 26, 2009 05:27 AM
Sad but true maybe instead of fueling the fire as some Psychologist do they might have tried to by dosing the hell out of people work on the problem at large. All I got to say is that I grew up with MJ!
Posted by Dave at June 26, 2009 12:58 PM