“We are no longer a national audience receiving news from a handful of trusted gatekeepers; we’re now a million or more clusters of consumers, harvesting information from like-minded providers.” -Ted Koppel Ted Koppel, arguably one of the most influential journalists of the modern era, recently wrote an editorial for the Washington Post entitled “Olbermann, O’Reilly, and the death of real [...]
by Andrew Hamilton Edited by Dan Wertman Conservatives, enamored with the magic of the market, have advocated the privatization of everything from Social Security to highways. A privatized America – though similar to our current system in many ways – may indeed lead to a very different path … MEMORANDUM TO: All Shareholders and Customers FROM: The Board of Directors [...]
The national debt is now at $13.7 trillion and rising – if our government doesn’t soon start pursuing serious deficit-reduction efforts, we will suffer the consequences. And they may be dire. A fun New York Times puzzle highlights the difficulty of the budgetary challenge, and the President’s bipartisan deficit reduction committee offers some possible solutions.
Just a quick post as I assemble information for Part II of my Iraq update. Hasn’t this been a big week for news? Government formation finally gains pace in Iraq, violence threatens along Sudan’s North-South faultline, Charlie Rangel finally receives punishment (disgracefully light though it is) for his ethics violations, Ireland teeters on the brink of serious fiscal crisis…. Take [...]
Yesterday evening, Howard Fineman, senior political editor at The Huffington Post and political analyst for NBC News, spoke at the Kelly Writers House on the subject of new and traditional media. Fineman described how he joined The Huffington Post in October upon a personal invitation from Arianna Huffington and now works on in-depth reporting projects. Fineman defined new media as [...]
…but I laughed pretty hard when I saw this video of our (beloved) Editor-in-Chief, in the role of “student group debt,” getting his ass handed to him by the Student Activities Council. Apparently they do not like it when student groups find themselves in the red. Anyway, watch the video, because the SAC people spent waaaay too much time preparing [...]
In the aftermath of the election, a great deal of attention has been given to the Democratic Party’s losses in the Congress. Although this focus is critical, it has become a little heavy on the blue. The reality is that Republicans have control of the larger house and will retain it for at least the next two years. Therefore, the [...]
For the past two years, the Republican Party has seethed at the Obama administration and Democrat-controlled Congress over its characterization as the “Party of No” – a faction with no real political solutions. Indeed, in an address to the first ever intercollegiate Model Congress tournament delegates at the University of Pennsylvania on November 7th, Democratic Congressman Bob Brady brought some [...]
I started my blogging career talking about Iraq’s elections, and today I interrupt your regular scheduled programming of U.S. election results to return to that topic. Why? Because today, eight months after millions of Iraqis risked their lives to vote, defying threats from terrorist groups, after months of political wrangling between the different contenders spawned by the relatively inconclusive election [...]
by Jim Santel Edited by Max Lesser Last summer, in a high-minded effort to soar above the partisanship rending the nation, I began regularly reading the Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages. I persuaded myself that, by reading opposing points of view, I was grooming myself as an enlightened citizen able to see beyond red and blue and take a hard [...]
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