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What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics
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Consider Barack Obama. On Friday, in an interview with the New York Times, Obama neatly summed up the prevailing press narrative about his campaign.
"A month ago, I was an idiot," he said, according to a story published Sunday. "This month, I'm a genius."
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Monthly No More
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The esteemed and established 150 year-old Atlantic Monthly magazine is no longer.
Nonono, it's not going anywhere. It's just changing its name. You know, like Cat Stevens. Or Jack Napier. Or Cher.
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The Final Countdown
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Tick … Last week's report of baseball suspending Baltimore Oriole Jay Gibbons and Kansas City Royal Jose Guillen.
Tick … Barry Bonds pleads not guilty to perjury and obstruction charges in a federal investigation of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Oops!
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"The Sentinel-Review apologizes for any embarrassment this may have caused."
-- From the Woodstock Sentinel-Review earlier this year, one of the great contenders in Regret the Error's list of 2007's best errors and corrections. (Emphasis in the quote? Mine.)
TiVo Changes Its Tune
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Well, one of the most popular media products in years, TiVo – which had the added bonus of becoming a verb as well – finds themselves in the red and is now apparently trying to patch up its relationship with the networks and advertisers it used to antagonize.
How did the 'stickin' it to the man' company change its approach?
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Afternoon Debate?
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Why are more and more presidential debates taking place in the afternoon? When the audience is a fraction of their prime-time lineups?
To refresh your memory ...
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Hidden Heroes
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It's difficult to report over there, and it's also extremely difficult to find "good news" stories that can compete with the harrowing tales for news merit.
But who knew the military was actually making the search for "good news" more difficult?
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Huckabee's Defensive Posture
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After weeks of glowing coverage over his aw-shucksiness, the honeymoon for the Baptist minister is over – as predicted in this space.
And how is he dealing with the rise in critical coverage? Opening up the first page out of the political playbook and attacking the messenger.
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Peddling Influence
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Nowadays it's all about the "Influencers."
And contrary to the 'decider' where you couldn't really pass yourself off as The One, the bonus about 'Influencers' is that you may be one and not even know it.
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No "Daily" Dose?
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In my listening to the "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" replay on XM radio yesterday, I heard one of his panelists making that observation. Her argument being basically that 'if Jon Stewart had been around, the Clinton campaign wouldn't have gotten away with the Barack/kindergarten letter story.'
For a moment it sounded silly, like a child saying 'Ooooh, it's a good thing mom didn't see you,' but then I realized that the panelist's observation had the added quality of being … true.
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