On Obama Nation:
"Significant parts of the book, whose subtitle is “Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” have already been challenged as misleading or false in the days since its debut on Aug. 1. Nonetheless, it is to make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday — at No. 1.

The book is being pushed along by a large volume of bulk sales, intense voter interest in Mr. Obama and a broad marketing campaign that has already included 100 author interviews with talk radio hosts across the country, like Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy, Mr. Corsi said on Tuesday."

News as social capital? Interesting analysis of an AP report…

Boehlert article referenced in last post

Such sloppy thinking here—Boehlert himself invokes "Robert Greenwald at Foxnewsattacks.com and the whole MoveOn.org crew, along with bloggers like Matt Stoller" in describing the assemblage of activists who have successfully delegitimized FOX, and yet once again a blanket category of "bloggers" get the bulk of the credit. When will we see a more nuanced recognition of the different types of people and organizations who are using online tools for political pushback?