Category Archive: Media
At the end of his career, Josh Marshall will be remembered as one of the leading journalists of the age. And his career is in its early adolescence. Today he explains the great Republican Voter Fraud Chase. — # 04/12/2007
Yglesias on yet another virus that infects those within the Beltway Event Horizon: "This passion for nitpicking and meta-commentary is a serious abdication. If you're going to spend your time writing about Iraq, you have some responsibility to form a view on the central Iraq-related question: The wisdom of continuing the war." — # 12/8/2006
For some reason I didn't know about this while it was ongoing, but Merlin Mann has an 8-part interview with David Allen. — # 11/28/2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Time does a cover story on risk and how we collectively and individually do not manage risk all that well. And yet nowhere in the article does the author acknowledge the media’s role in creating hysteria over low probability events.
Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we’d get pretty good at distinguishing [...]
Mark Danner in the NYRB on Iraq. It's a long one. — # 11/25/2006
MediaShift has a long and interesting interview with Paul Kiel and Justin Rood of TPMMuckraker. "I don’t believe in the ivory tower idea, but legitimacy is hard to win. People value news outlets for their legitimacy, which is very hard to do. So that’s a problem for the citizen journalism movement." — # 11/22/2006
A new top 100 list! The Atlantic publishes their top 100 most influential Americans. As they said in their email, "Let the debates begin." Plenty to debate here, but I loved this one-sentence description of Woodrow Wilson (#10): "He made the world safe for U.S. interventionism, if not for democracy." — # 11/21/2006
GigaOm's Robert Young on Yahoo: "They made a very big and expensive mistake by bringing in a traditional broadcast TV executive to run this group… one that AOL seems destined to repeat with their recent executive shuffle. The rules of broadcast media are antithetical to the factors that drive social media, and the thing that I will agree with Brad on is that such insights and visions must be something that is intuitive and native for the leadership at the top." — # 11/20/2006
Lifehacker, "Your goal should be to frame the action using one or more of those spots. Or, to put it another way, keep the birthday girl out of the center square." — # 11/13/2006
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone recoils at the state of our politics and media: "With each passing election season the format for political coverage on TV morphs even further in the direction of sportscasting. Most of the networks on this election night quite baldly copied the NFL Countdown format, with one Max-Headroom/Chris Berman celluloid host figure (Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, etc.) set off to the far left on a set with four 'expert analysts.'" — # 11/13/2006
Glenn Greenwald in Salon marvels at the idiocy of the pundit class: "That's because they believe in nothing. They have no passion about anything. And they thus assume that everyone else suffers from the same emptiness of character and ossified cynicism that plague them. And all of their punditry and analysis and political strategizing flows from this corrupt root." — # 11/13/2006
Via Stephen Schenkenberg: "And the more classical model is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music." — # 11/10/2006
Hullabaloo, "They are going to continue to demonize her as some sort of deranged succubus, but they'd better be careful. Lot's of women are watching and they aren't going to like her character being assassinated with thinly veiled attacks on female inadequacy or gay insinuations or any of the other usual rightwing tricks." — # 11/9/2006
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Since the Grey Lady has decided to open up the Select garden to the rest of us slobs to remind us just how trite Tom Friedman is, I decided it was time for a little self-referential linking. For those who pay for Time Select, see below for how you can get the very same opinion [...]
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
This is the primary lesson from yesterday’s election: Any incumbent can be defeated.
The politician that appears invincible a year before election day can be dead in the water 12 months later. The party leaders can’t tell you who will be vulnerable, and if they could, they couldn’t be trusted to take action to capitalize on [...]
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
In late 2002 Dick Gephardt resigned his post as Minority Leader in the House. Nancy Pelosi took over the post and with it the responsibility for putting the Dems back in control. It was discussed at the time as a risky move for the Dems to put such a crazy liberal in charge of their [...]
Malcolm Gladwell reads Jane Galt and decends into shrill, shrieking madness:
1. “Gladwell” does not attribute Irish success to falling birth rates. David Bloom and David Canning do. Gladwell is a journalist. Bloom and Canning are two exceedingly prestigious economists at Harvard, who are considered world experts in the field of demography and economics. Gladwell was [...]
This is important.
We live in extraordinary times. It behooves us to exploit all that these times offer to the best of our ability. I agree with Brad; I too am suspicious of video. To his reasons I will add that video is exceedingly difficult to produce in high quality.
With writing your mind must be [...]
Saturday, January 28, 2006
I’d like to pile on the Editors’ excellent work today by laying odds of 50:1 that the “research” quoted by Lauer and the Diminutive Russ was done by the RNC. I’m sure some interns at NBC News were tasked with looking into Dean’s comments as well, but their research is suspect since said interns no [...]
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A great deal of bytes are spilled on line about the problems of the DC press corps. I am a particular fan of Prof. DeLong’s Why Oh Why Can’t We Have a Better Press Corps series, but if you’d like to skip DeLong’s series and cut to the chase see Chris Nolan today. [...]
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