12 December 2008
by andrew
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If you really want to know what it’s in the criminal complaint filed against Rod Blagojevich, you can read it. But in this 2.0 world, why read when you can visualize? Bill Allison at the Sunlight Foundation’s Real Time Investigations … Continue reading
10 December 2008
by andrew
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How long until the Truman:Pendergast::Obama:Blagojevich analogy shows up in the major media? Never mind if the person making the analogy does a good job with differences and historical specifics. I’d just be amazed if it’s not made at all.
18 November 2008
by andrew
Comments Off on only in America a democracy
With the talk of Obama’s election being something that could only happen in America, it’s no surprise to find people pointing out that, well, not only could “it” – meaning a similar electoral victory, of course – happen elsewhere, but … Continue reading
30 October 2008
by andrew
Comments Off on the dial turns spur the worm; the worm turns, spurns
This is a good background piece on those “squiggly lines” that showed up on CNN during the debates, but I would have liked to have learned more about previous uses of so-called “dial testing” in election coverage. The feature is … Continue reading
9 September 2008
by andrew
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It’s really sort of remarkable, the lengths some people will go to in order to hide the metropolitan reality of this country. And that’s assuming that Wasilla and all other similarly-sized cities are small towns that are not, as surely … Continue reading
4 September 2008
by andrew
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Isn’t Wasilla really more of a suburb than a small town? The city website’s “At Work” page talks about “small-town living” but the statistics sure look like “suburb” (or “exurb”): One of the Mat-Su Borough’s chief exports is labor. Wasilla … Continue reading
29 August 2008
by andrew
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When I watched a little of the coverage of the Democratic convention this afternoon, I thought I was watching the Olympics again; when I looked at the coverage later in the evening, I was glad to see that the stadium … Continue reading
10 August 2008
by andrew
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From the teaser for that Atlantic article on the Clinton campaign many people are talking about: The eight-page blockbuster, “The Front-Runner’s Fall,” Hmm. Hasn’t that title been used before? Maybe in a “blockbuster” insider article about the failure of a … Continue reading
2 August 2008
by andrew
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I kind of hope [Birch] Evan Bayh [III] gets the vice presidential nomination, just to see who comes up with the most embarrassing pun on his name. Actually, like Ari, I don’t. But if he did, I wonder if people … Continue reading
14 June 2008
by andrew
Comments Off on subtlety
I don’t know the politics of Ted Turner, but I saw in the listings that this movie was playing on Turner Classic Movies last night. I’d never heard of it before. I’ve still never seen it.