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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Palin’s Bailin’
Alaska governor Sarah Palin is the Manny Ramirez of American politics. For one thing, she’s living in a world of her own. For another, she sure seems like she’s on drugs. Her Fourth of July Eve bolt from the blue … Continue reading
Palin by Comparison
Top Ten Reasons Sarah Palin Has Gotta Hate Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair Piece About Her: 10. ” [She] often seems proud of what she does not know.” 9. “No political principle or personal relationship is more sacred than her own … Continue reading
The First on Our Block
Plowing through the Sarah Palin takedown in Vanity Fair (more later), but wanted to issue this Consumer Alert: The Missus and I agree that Boston Globe movie critic Ty Burr got it just right in his review of Public Enemies. … Continue reading
This Week’s Old Media/New Media Donnybrook
These days the newspaper business is like an endless self-help seminar, with chinstrokers tossing around theoretical therapies while journalists cast about for a life preserver. The latest in the latter category is Connie Schultz’s column in Sunday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer … Continue reading
Is the Times Guilty of Wiki-pediment?
The soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture saga of New York Times reporter David Rohde – who was kidnapped, along with his translator, by the Taliban last November and escaped, along with his translator, last Saturday – has raised some Big J journalism questions about the … Continue reading
Gay Old Times at the New York Times
At least twice in the past month the New York Times has published stories with the basic theme, The American Public Is Way Out in Front of Politicians on Gay Rights. At the end of May there was Matt Bai’s … Continue reading
Anonymess
Confidential sources are the Achilles heel of print media. Part of the reason the general public doesn’t trust/believe/respect newspapers, for instance, is that the general public thinks it’s too easy for them to just make stuff up. See Jayson Blair … Continue reading
Times Report Lacks MySpice
Social networking giant MySpace is hardly going Friendster, but it does have its problems. Facebook is currently kicking its boot-up, reportedly drawing more monthly visitors than MySpace, which also is experiencing losses in page views and revenues. So what looked … Continue reading
Sanford an Easy Mark
I tend to agree with Slate’s John Dickerson’s piece on So. Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, which features this fabulous lede: Mark Sanford is no longer missing, but he’s obviously lost. I also agree with Lee Siegel’s Daily Beast post, in … Continue reading
Hello and Welcome
Despite Dr. Johnson’s excellent advice (see above right), I hereby claim my humble space in the blogosphere. (Big shoutout to blogger extraordinaire Dan Kennedy, whose helpful ministrations got me to the starting line.) Up until now, my blogging experience has … Continue reading
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