Posted in conservative media, election, impact, media politics, progressive media on Oct 31st, 2008
Amy Goodman had a great interview a few days ago with Jane Mayer, author of The New Yorker’s The Insiders: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin. . The transcript is up at AlterNet. Mayer traces the Palin promotion path–as the new Alaska Governor to the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. [...]
Posted in humor, media politics on Oct 30th, 2008
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Posted in framing, humor, media politics, musings on Oct 9th, 2008
The amazing Rebecca Traister has a great article about the politicizing of daytime TV during this election cycle.
The timing of this article was great, because just yesterday I was telling Jessica about the how the The View has been a hotbed of political debate and amazing interviews–including the now-infamous grilling of Sen. John [...]
Posted in impact, marketing, media politics, progressive media, web 2.0 on Sep 5th, 2008
This is an interesting article from MediaShift on digg’s evolution from a site mostly focused on technology stories to expanded issues, including their now most popular section–politics. The biggest complaint from some users is the liberal leanings of the posts (but maybe that just shows the organizing savvy and advanced use of technology [...]
Posted in Book, media politics, musings on Aug 7th, 2008
In today’s Salon, Rick Perlstein (fellow Chicagoan and author of Nixonland) has a fascinating interview with Thomas Frank–author of the hit (and great example of high impact) What’s the Matter With Kansas? and the new, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. The interview hones in on specific stories from Frank’s new book on [...]