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For reasons I’m not so sure about, I’ve been looking at the media page on HuffPo a lot over the past several days. In the process of doing this, I realized that last night marked the return of Conan O’Brien to late-night television after a long and winding journey. I don’t really watch late-night...
Southern Beale has taken a deeper look at the TEA Party movement and found it lacking. It seems to me the only electoral “victory” our media can point to for the Tea Party is Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts. While the Tea Party Express endorsed him, Brown himself never claimed to be part of...
This is my first FULL day off since March 1st. March has been a haze, filled with lots and lots of papers, tests, and work that just won’t quit. It’s times like this that I, somehow, feel less than 100% human. Some of us, like me, selectively shut down various systems in our consciousness...
As a former journalist, I constantly see changes in how news is going to new and different multimedia formats. Yeah, I was one of the downsized casualties for lack of a better term. I’m a blog courtesan today because there are times I talk about the changes in media and thought I’d share over...
John Branston gives interesting info on the state of blogging and newspapers at the Flyer’s Media Notes column: Blogs are fading. Newspapers are dying. Or they’re not dying. Or there is renewed hope for them. The news about blogs comes from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, via the Associated Press. Only 14...
Why Did Air America Fail?
Former Air America CEO Danny Goldberg talks about why Air America did not survive and the difference between progressive talk and its funders and right-wing talk and its funders. I think the New York Times got it exactly wrong on Monday in declaring that “the enduring legacy of Air America’s failure is that political...
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