Tag: media
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I’ve spent the last two weeks getting licensed to work in a new field. Mitt Romney has spent the last two weeks since Rick Santorum dropped out of the race trying to convince the American public that he should replace Barack Obama as president of the United States in November. It has not been ... Read More
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After all the media drama and the newspaper headlines and the cable news show hoopla over Newt Gingrich’s massive win in the South Carolina GOP primary last week has finally died down, the mathematical facts have remained the same—Mitt Romney still has accumulated 5 more total delegates than ... Read More
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Rick Santorum gives me the impression that if he was on Mars, campaigning for the Martian vote, he would still find a way to blame black Americans for taking the tax dollars of white Americans. I don’t know what kind of constituencies Santorum is used to representing, but out here in real America ... Read More
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Rick Santorum gives me the impression that if he was on Mars, campaigning for the Martian vote, he would still find a way to blame black Americans for taking the tax dollars of white Americans. I don’t know what kind of constituencies Santorum is used to representing, but out here in real America ... Read More
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Hillary Clinton, of all people, made my day last week when she said the news in the United States consists of “…a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads…” To add insult to injury, she held up Al Jazeera, the Arab news station, as a model of responsible information ... Read More
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Could anyone imagine what American political reporting might look like if its leading actors weren’t so obsessive about the next election? If “who’s running in 2012” is the media equivalent of crystal meth, then our Washington press corps, like Ben Smith of POLITICO, who wakes me up every ... Read More
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A participant at a Republican National Committee fundraising retreat committed an inexcusable faux pas earlier this week when he forgot to pack a document from the meeting before checking out of his hotel room. The media feeding frenzy over the controversial 72 page PowerPoint presentation has ... Read More
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Who are these people in the media who tell us what is important -- who decide what the narrative is for the rest of our national tribe? Do they really speak for the citizenry of the nation, or is it possible that they succumb to their own personal agendas when selecting how to portray America’s ... Read More
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There are two different types of narratives about the Haiti tragedy these days -- the ones shown each evening on the nightly news programs of the major television networks and the ones that exists on the internet in the watering holes of cyberspace. Many of the recent conversations I’ve had, both ... Read More
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“We as a nation are television watchers. Not only do we learn about politics by watching television, but we are television watchers; who we are as humans is in part defined by the attention that we pay to the television.” Roderick Hart President Obama has had a long week. He has had to wrangle ... Read More
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Resurgence combines news, research, and Kris Broughton's own life experiences as a politically aware African-American citizen to explore race and the politics of race. Drawing on Broughton's financial services background, the blog also delves into our ongoing banking crisis and the mortgage market meltdown—as well as the path toward recovery.
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