So, yes, for some reason I’ve been on an MSNBC kick lately–or maybe because that’s where some of the most interesting stuff has been happening. But I promise that this will be my last post of the week with MSNBC footage.
But I thought I’d note that Chris Hayes, Washington Editor of The Nation, was a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann Friday night. Chris was discussing the two faces of Sen. John McCain. Now yes, that’s noteworthy (and definitely worth learning about), but what was really interesting for me (as a a media geek) was who he was talking with. Keith was absent from the show that day and in his stead was our fast rising progressive journalist and TV personality star, Rachel Maddow (one of the high-impact personalities we are featuring in our book).
Let me ask you, when was the last time you saw two progressive journalists dominating a major cable channel for even 5 minutes and having an interesting, journalistic, topical conversation that didn’t involve defending themselves from loud-mouth pundits or having to scream over the conservative blow hards? If you know the last time, let me know, but I surely can’t think of it. I’m sure that this has to do with MSNBC’s bottom-line decision to go more “left”–but I’m not going to argue with it. Watch the clip.
The next two months are just swarming with media conferences, and we’re hoping to catch up with readers of this blog at at least one of them. Here’s a quick rundown of which of us will be where:
International Communication Association Conference, Montreal, May 22-26: Jessica will be heading up a preconference and a Sunday panel on redefining “public media”
National Conference for Media Reform, June 5-8, Minneapolis: Jessica and Tracy will be presenting together at the academic preconference on the topic “Independent Media: New Impact Measurements.” Then, on Friday, Tracy will be moderating a panel called “How Independent Media Creates Change,” and Jessica will be moderating a panel called “New Directions in Public Media.” (I also heard a rumor about a party—details?)
Beyond Broadcast: Mapping Public Media, DC, June 17: Jessica’s planning this one, and Tracy will be there, and so should you! It’s a great chance to make the case for how public media should evolve to better serve citizens in the Web 2.0 era. Register today.
Personal Democracy Forum, New York, June 23-24: Join Tracy at this star-studded extravaganza of Web 2.0 political strategists
“There’s a fundamentally new structure to media and there are many different ways to look at it. And until we realize that, I don’t think we’ll begin to create successful new models for news.”
Top brands with international traffic should be banding together to sell that traffic and audience as a group. No one of them has successfully and fully exploited the value of this audience now and, as Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times pointed out, each o
So I’m going to expand the idea “new directions in progressive media” (our tag line above) to implicitly include, “bad directions for the right wing media.” Because a) it’s fun! and b) it’s important to see where the right wing media is cracking.
In light of this, I’m going to give Chris Matthews a virtual high five (never thought I’d do that!) for calling out Kevin James, a crazy right wing radio host on yesterday’s edition of Hardball. BTW–when I asked myself “just who is this Kevin James?” Wikipedia had already been updated with the incident. Love it!
I first saw the video on Talking Points Memo yesterday, and as one poster on The Houston Chronicle’s citizen journalism/member blog noted today:
In a very funny, yet sad exchange on Hardball yesterday, host Chris Matthews humiliated right wingnut radio jabber Kevin James over the “appeasement” uproar stupidly started by GWB in Israel yesterday. This guy looks about 16 years old and is like a giant Chatty Kathy - just pull the string and he repeats the same talking points in order ad infinitum. Chris couldn’t control the conversation, or this guy’s mouth, so he tried to quizz him on appeasement by Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of Britain in the ’30s, and the Munich Agreement where Britain ceded part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. This guy didn’t even know who Chamberlain was, how he got tagged with the appeaser label, or what he did.After making a complete fool of himself, Kevin just started repeating “appeasement; faster and faster linking the accusation to Obama.
But you know what? Words can not do justice. Just watch the video. Enjoy.
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A different sort of impact, but important to note, nonetheless. I love Amanda and have loved many of Seal Book’s (including Jessica Valenti’s), but this was messed up.
