We've long heard complaints that TED is elitist. The annual conference in California costs $7,500 to attend and is nearly impossible to get into, even for those who can afford the price tag; it is widely considered to be "unofficially invite-only."
Still, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't gone down a TED video rabbit hole at least once. Snobby as they may be, those TED folks sure know how to pull together some fascinating speakers and share their talks online in a compelling way. There are some questionable TED talks in the archives, sure, but most of them are solid, and some are great (for example, the scientist who studied her own stroke).
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TED curator Chris Anderson initially called the piece "one of the most politically controversial talks we've ever run" and said "we need to be really careful" when it gets posted online, but he made it sound as if it was still a matter of when, not if. But soon, TED's tune had changed:
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It's still curious how TED's stance on the talk went from "The world must see this!" to "We'll get to it later..." to "Actually it's too partisan" to "It might upset businessmen." More + video...
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Still, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't gone down a TED video rabbit hole at least once. Snobby as they may be, those TED folks sure know how to pull together some fascinating speakers and share their talks online in a compelling way. There are some questionable TED talks in the archives, sure, but most of them are solid, and some are great (for example, the scientist who studied her own stroke).
(...)
TED curator Chris Anderson initially called the piece "one of the most politically controversial talks we've ever run" and said "we need to be really careful" when it gets posted online, but he made it sound as if it was still a matter of when, not if. But soon, TED's tune had changed:
(...)
It's still curious how TED's stance on the talk went from "The world must see this!" to "We'll get to it later..." to "Actually it's too partisan" to "It might upset businessmen." More + video...
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- Capitalism in crisis, a warning from history...
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- Leaked email reveals BBC's suppression of anti-monarchy views...
- Ban Ki-Moon 'tries to censor criticism of UN'
- Americans renounced their citizenship in record numbers in 2011...
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