Nancy Pelosi's Flickr photostream

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a Flickr photostream (dating back to last August. Cool. She hasn't learned about Creative Commons yet, though.

May 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM in Photography, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Historic night for Obama, Dems

The headlines say it all:

May 6, 2008 at 09:42 PM in Current Affairs, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Bush-McCain Challenge

Take the Bush-McCain Challenge. Can you tell the difference between President Bush and Sen. John McCain? Take this 5-question quiz and find out.

May 2, 2008 at 01:12 PM in Amusing, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Obama in 30 Seconds contest

MoveOn's Obama in 30 Seconds contest is down to 15 finalists after 1,000 entires and over 5 million votes. You should be able to see and vote on the finalists  here (for the People's Choice Awards). I liked the one above titled "Obama 2012."

April 29, 2008 at 06:44 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (2) | | (0)

Next generation is reshaping politics through social networking

San Jose Mercury News: Next generation is reshaping politics through social networking -- a Q&A with the authors of the new book Millennial Makeover: My Space, YouTube & the Future of American Politics (Rutgers University Press).

April 27, 2008 at 11:24 PM in Books, Politics, Social networks | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Virtual debates at WhereIStand.com

Online Journalism Review: Virtual debates at WhereIStand.com. Simply compare candidates to each other, and yourself with new wiki opinion aggregator.

April 23, 2008 at 09:28 PM in New media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

NPR's GetMyVote

I had been hoping to spend more time with NPR's new site, GetMyVote, before I left, but can't. In any case, it's certainly worth showcasing here.

Says NPR's Andy Carvin:

"The purpose of the project is to ask people to upload audio, video or text commentaries in which they explain what it'll take for candidates to get their vote. We've designed the site around a collection of widgets, so local NPR and PBS stations can create their own local Get My Vote projects for state and municipal elections, as well as participate in the national version of the project.

"As users post their commentaries, NPR staff curate some of the more interesting ones on the homepage, though all of them can still be accessed via the tag cloud, search and various sorting mechanisms. Our shows plan to feature commentaries on air throughout the election cycle."

They're now in public beta and have begun discussing the effort on air. If you have any feedback, leave it here or email Tom at NPR. It's now in public beta, and we've just begun talking about it on air. Most of the bugs have been fixed, though there's still a lot of fine-tuning going on

April 9, 2008 at 07:29 PM in New media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Do the media matter in the presidential race?

NY Times: A short video debate between author David Corn and Rachel Sklar of Huffington Post about whether "the media" remain influential enough to bias the presidential campaign.

April 6, 2008 at 08:44 PM in Media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Your traditional media at work

Glenn Greenwald at Salon: The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell.

In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.

Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:

"Yoo and torture" - 102

"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73

"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16

"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043

"Obama and Wright" -- More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)

"Obama and patriotism" - 1,607

"Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079

And as Eric Boehlert documents, even Iraq -- that little five-year U.S. occupation with no end in sight -- has been virtually written out of the media narrative in favor of mindless, stupid, vapid chatter of the type referenced above. "The Clintons are Rich!!!!" will undoubtedly soon be at the top of this heap within a matter of a day or two.

"Media critic" Howie Kurtz in the Washington Post today devoted pages of his column to Obama's bowling and eating habits and how that shows he's not a regular guy but an Arrogant Elitist, compiling an endless string of similar chatter about this from Karl Rove, Maureen Dowd, Walter Shapiro and Ann Althouse. Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson devoted her whole column this week to arguing that, along with Wright, Obama's bowling was his biggest mistake, a "real doozy."

Obama's bowling has provided almost a full week of programming on MSNBC. Gail Collins, in The New York Times, today observed that Obama went bowling "with disastrous consequences." And, as always, they take their personality-based fixations from the Right, who have been promoting the Obama is an Arrogant, Exotic, Elitist Freak narrative for some time. In a typically cliched and slimy article, Time's Joe Klein this week explored what the headline called Obama's "Patriotism Problem," where we learn that "this is a chronic disease among Democrats, who tend to talk more about what's wrong with America than what's right." He trotted it all out -- the bowling, the lapel pin, Obama's angry, America-hating wife, "his Islamic-sounding name." ...

And journalists wonder why the public holds them in such low regard?

April 5, 2008 at 10:05 PM in Media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

10 things you should know about John McCain -- but probably don't

MyDD: 10 things you should know about John McCain -- but probably don't.

April 5, 2008 at 09:30 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Personal Democracy Forum on June 23-24

I attended Personal Democracy Forum in New York last year and found it to be a compelling gathering of political-minded tech heads and others interested in the intersection of politics and technology. It's brought to you by the same folks who publish TechPresident.com.

Speakers include Vint Cerf, Craig Newmark, Ellen Miller, Matt Stoller, Josh Marshall, Lawrence Lessig, Arianna Huffington, Elizabeth Edwards and Mike Arrington. Too early to know whether I'll be able to attend, but registration is now open for $595.

March 31, 2008 at 06:11 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | | (0)

Reject the politics of fear

The girl in Hillary's 3 a.m. red phone ad ... endorses Barack Obama.

March 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

The student's guide to voting

Here's a college student's guide to voting, with a section on how social media and Web 2.0 technologies are helping to engage more young people in the democratic process, plus a state-by-state guide to voting registration deadlines.

March 21, 2008 at 02:24 PM in Politics, Social-media, Youth culture | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Why has Obama's former minister dominated the news?

I've been astonished, though probably shouldn't be surprised, at the prominence that news organizations — chiefly the cable networks — have given during the past 10 days to the flap over remarks by Barack Obama's former minister, to the exclusion of all the pressing issues facing this country.

The video above provides some context to explain how the Fox News "virus" has infiltrated other news outlets. MoveOn is offering people a chance to sign a petition urging news outlets to stop this nonsense:

This week, Barack Obama gave one of the most honest and inspiring speeches on race in American history after weathering days of the media's relentless, divisive, and racially charged attacks. But have you wondered where these attacks came from and why they dominated the news?

Reporters like NBC's Tim Russert focused on the "Reverend Wright controversy" only after FOX and other right-wing media did. It happens over and over: FOX airs a right-wing smear and the mass media repeat it.  Film director Robert Greenwald just released a short video called FOX Attacks Obama: Part 2 which shows how it happens.

We are launching a petition demanding the big networks stop parroting FOX and distracting Americans from real issues. We'll hand-deliver your signatures to major media outlets next week. Watch the video, and sign the petition, here:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3495&id=12363-7671297-HJOMvC&t=454

The petition, which we're launching with Greenwald's Brave New Films, says: "FOX is a Republican mouthpiece, not a legitimate news organization. Real news organizations must reject FOX's smears of Barack Obama, not parrot them and distract Americans from the pressing issues of the day." The more signatures we deliver, the bigger the impact—so please tell your friends.

Media watchdog group Media Matters has chronicled how FOX spent months trying to smear Obama by associating him with Reverend Wright's words. Greenwald's new video shows how the attacks successfully migrated to the mass media—Tim Russert repeated Sean Hannity's smears virtually word-for-word!

Meanwhile, the big networks all but ignored Pastor John Hagee, whose endorsement John McCain was "honored" and "proud" to receive. Hagee says Katrina was God's punishment for homosexuality, Jews are to blame for anti-Semitism, and Catholicism is the "Whore of Babylon" and "a cult."

It gets worse. At the same time they relentlessly reported on Obama's pastor, most network journalists also ignored Rick Parsley, a televangelist who McCain called his "spiritual guide" when accepting his endorsement last month. Parsley has said:

I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed...

Ignoring McCain's spiritual advisers while going after Obama's is what we expect from FOX, which is more a Republican mouthpiece than a real news organization. But when real news outlets follow FOX's lead, we have to hold them accountable. Otherwise, FOX will continue to elevate smear after smear against Democrats into the mass media in 2008. 

March 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM in Media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (5) | | (0)

Why political reporters should disclose whom they voted for

In the March 24 issue of Time magazine, James Poniewozik explains why he thinks journalists should "go open kimono" when it comes to their preferred political candidates: The Case for Full Disclosure. Admitting that reporters care who wins is the best way to make political news trustworthy. Excerpts:

On Feb. 5, I woke up, went for a run, showered, had a yogurt smoothie, took the kids to school and voted for Barack Obama. Only one of those facts is worth your knowing, and it is the one that most journalists would never tell you. ...

It wasn't always so, but as grubby "reporters" evolved into white-collar, credentialed "journalists," it has become a tradition—a pointless one. If a tech writer told you he had no preference between Macs and PCs and chose not to use a computer in the interest of impartiality, you would rightly consider him an idiot. But politics is not consumer journalism, right? Right—it's more important, and transparency in it is more essential.

I'm with you 100%, James. And I voted for Obama on Feb. 5.

March 20, 2008 at 08:45 PM in Media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Change Congress effort launches today

Lawrence Lessig announces he launch of a new organization that's worthy of your attention: Change Congress. (Alas, the site has not yet launched.) He writes:

Colorado Congressman Wayne Allard has taken over $45,900 from ConAgra Food Corp. and over $405,000 from the oil and gas industry. His campaign is fueled by over $3.6 million in PAC contributions. He is just one example of a problem that affects members of both parties. And just one example of why the system in Washington D.C. puts special interests before the American people.

That system will not change on its own. It will only change if people like you and me stand up and fight for it.

A month ago I considered running for Congress to help bring about this change from the inside. Many of you supported the idea and urged me to run. After thinking very hard about whether such a campaign could win, I decided against it. And instead I am asking you to join me in a new grassroots effort to Change Congress.

We will be kicking off the Change Congress effort at the National Press Club on Thursday at 1:30 PM EST at a speech I'll be giving sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. If you can't get to the event in Washington D.C. I hope you will join me online for a live webcast by going to the link below:

http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=46510

You can also view the event details on the Sunlight Foundation's website.

This new effort is one that cannot be sustained without your help. It will require change from the bottom up, starting with your own local districts. Change Congress will run on the backs of thousands of concerned citizens like you and me, who are tired of the politics as usual that put the interests of corporate America before those of the American people.

Later: NPR's Andy Carvin blogs about the announcement: Lessig Launches Change Congress: Using Semantic Web and Crowdsourcing for Political Reform.

March 20, 2008 at 01:04 AM in Current Affairs, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

McCain: Unfit for duty

Josh Marshall argues convincingly at TalkingPointsMemo today that Sen. John McCain is unfit to be the nation's commander-in-chief, the media's love affair with him notwithstanding. Thanks to Dave Winer for the Twitter pointer.

March 19, 2008 at 05:04 PM in Current Affairs, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Barack Obama: A more perfect union

Above is video of the speech on racial tolerance that presidential candidate Barack Obama gave in Philadelphia earlier today. (Or watch it on Obama's site.) It's receiving quite a bit of buzz online and in the traditional media. Let's hope this puts the demagoguery on race to rest.

Some reactions, via PoliticalWire:

Andrew Sullivan: "I have never felt more convinced that this man's candidacy - not this man, his candidacy - and what he can bring us to achieve - is an historic opportunity. This was a testing; and he did not merely pass it by uttering safe bromides. He addressed the intimate, painful love he has for an imperfect and sometimes embittered man. And how that love enables him to see that man's faults and pain as well as his promise. This is what my faith is about. It is what the Gospels are about. This is a candidate who does not merely speak as a Christian. He acts like a Christian."

Charles Murray, author of the Bell Curve: "Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I'm concerned, it is just plain flat out brilliant -- rhetorically, but also in capturing a lot of nuance about race in America. It is so far above the standard we're used to from our pols."

Ben Smith: "A smart colleague notes that this speech is the polar opposite of this year's other big speech on faith, in which Mitt Romney went to Texas to talk about Mormonism, but made just one reference to his Mormon faith. Obama mentions Wright by name 14 times."

New York Times editorial: Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage. "Senator Barack Obama, who has not faced such tests of character this year, faced one on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine how he could have handled it better."

March 18, 2008 at 05:24 PM in Current Affairs, Politics | Permalink | Comments (2) | | (0)

The campaigns' conference calls on your computer or iPod

Dave Winer has been lobbying to make the daily presidential campaign conference calls available as mp3 files. He reports that McClatchy now has a subscription feed for some of them.

Congrats, Dave. An important development. I just subscribed — it's interesting to hear the delusional nature of the Clinton camp firsthand.

Meantime, today Dave has: How Internet news should work. The New York Times, with its 24-hour online news desk, already does this, but much of the rest of the traditional news media still focus too much on yesterday's news.

March 14, 2008 at 07:19 PM in Current Affairs, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Obama in 30 Seconds

One of the most astonishing displays of citizen media during the 2004 presidential campaign occurred when tens of thousands of people submitted entries to MoveOn's Bush in 30 Seconds contest.

Now MoveOn has announced a new ad contest, Obama in 30 Seconds. The winner will receive a gift certificate for $20,000 in video equipment and the winning ad will air nationally. 

You can submit ads from March 27 to April 1 before MoveOn's members start voting. The final winners will be chosen by a panel of judges that includes Lawrence Lessig, Markos Moulitsas, Matt & Ben, DJ Spooky, Jesse Jackson, Steve Buscemi, Naomi Wolf, Ben Affleck, Oliver Stone and others.

MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser has more at the video above.

March 13, 2008 at 04:35 PM in Citizen media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

How 3 citizen media sites are covering the election

Over at PBS's MediaShift, Mark Glaser offers an interesting look at three team efforts of "semi-pro journalists" who are covering the U.S. presidential election: PurpleStates.tv, MTV's Street Team and the Huffington Post's Off the Bus (including Amanda Michel, an old friend, above).

Mark says, "So far, the three projects have done a good job of bringing up new topics that resonate more with real voters -- but they haven't received much notice from the public and their sites suffer from poor navigation." He offers a mid-term report card for each one.

March 13, 2008 at 04:09 PM in Citizen media, New media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | | (0)

First electoral map comparisons

It's early, but Survey USA offers an Electoral College map breakdown of both Obama and Clinton against McCain in the fall based on poling they've done in each state. I think Obama will win bigger (New Jersey won't go red), but hopefully soon we can put this blue and red nonsense behind us.

March 6, 2008 at 11:39 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Politics 2.0

At PBS's MediaShift, Mark Glaser has this: Politico 2.0: Ruffini Blogs, Twitters, Crowdsources Obama Donations. It's a Q&A with Patrick Ruffini, who epitomizes the new breed of political consultant. Ruffini was the e-campaign director for the GOP in 2006, he blogs at various sites, and has run political websites since the mid-'90s. He also used an ad hoc Twitter group to find out Iowa caucus results early, and used "crowdsourcing" to add up Obama donations.

Ruffini believes that John McCain should do a series of daily videos, speaking directly to voters, but he doesn't think digital media alone can make a candidate viable. (Photo of Patrick Ruffini by Robert Bluey via Flickr.)

March 6, 2008 at 12:02 AM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | | (0)

It's the math, stupid

DailyKos breaks down why it's all but impossible (barring a long string of 30-point victories) for Hillary Clinton to overtake Barak Obama in the delegate race.

March 5, 2008 at 09:55 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | | (0)

Of bloggers, political reporters and what journalism has become

Political blogger DavidNYC in today's DailyKos brilliantly analyzes why bloggers and traditional media's political reporters are like oil and water. I think he's dead on -- and it's a telling indictment of modern journalism: 

I submit the following:

•     Science reporters love science
•     Sports reporters love sports
•     Political reporters hate politics
  

These are broad generalizations, no doubt. But I think there's a lot of truth to them, truth which can teach us about ourselves, about the traditional media, and about the relationship between us.

I think I'm on pretty safe ground when I say that science reporters love science. They thrill to the genome, the Hubble Deep Field, exobiology, exoplanetology, the Large Hadron Collider, stem cells, Schroedinger, Hawking, Wiles, Lake Vostok and coral reefs. Love of the subject is why they went into science reporting in the first place. ...

But oh - the political reporters. They are a breed apart. They like politics-as-theater: Hillary's pantsuit, Obama's turban, the Clenis, the flight-suit, America's Mayor, dead-or-alive, he-said, she-said and all the world's a stage.

But they hate what we identify as politics: winning elections because they matter; ensuring our judiciary respects the Constitution; passing legislation to help the disadvantaged, the middle class, the environment, the world.

They hate all this because our brand of politics is about caring, and there is nothing more uncool, more gauche, more unacceptable than caring. Like the astrophysics geek (of course), or the armchair sabermetrician, we politi-philes are nerds at heart - nerds who care about our chosen subject, and nerds who care about outcomes.

I think we all know that political reporters, on the other hand, are the ultimate post-ironic kool kidz, snickering in the corner at us propeller-heads who wear our hearts on our sleeves. Sports writers understand that, in the end, what they write about really almost always is just a game. The problem is that political reporters think the same way about their beat as well.

And this, I think, explains the antagonistic view many political reporters have toward bloggers. I think it almost boggles their minds that there are people out there - normal, ordinary people - who care about politics and aren't paid to do so. At the same time, we despise the Maureen Dowd-style obsessions shared by such a wide swath of the political reporting class, and we have a hard time respecting anyone who doesn't take politics as seriously as we do.

Put another way, political reporters hate what we love and love what we hate. This stands in stark contrast to the science and sports worlds - examples which I picked in part because these are other interests of mine, but also because I think they are good stand-ins for just about any other topics. Sports & science reporters & bloggers have plenty in common; political reporters and bloggers share little.

I'm not sure, though, that political reporters could really have any other m.o. The twentieth-century invention of "objective" reporting all but prohibits reporters from caring about political outcomes. This means that the kind of people attracted to political reporting almost necessarily have to find politics appealing only as some sort of grand kabuki.

It wasn't always this way - the slavish obeisance to "objectivity" replaced what used to be sharp-elbowed partisanship in American print media. But could our frayed modus vivendi with the political press corps actually be preferable to the alternative?

March 2, 2008 at 10:46 PM in Media, Politics, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Right wing plays Muslim card against Obama

Given the number of lies and the amount of disinformation spread by the right, it's worth repeating this over and over and over.

Today's San Francisco Chronicle: The right plays on Americans' fears in attacks on Obama. Excerpt:

If the ascendancy of Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic race shows that Americans' attitudes toward race and gender have evolved, the latest round of media images alluding - incorrectly - to an overseas Muslim upbringing for Obama will test the degree to which Americans fear foreigners  in a post-Sept. 11 world. Obama is a Christian who never worshiped at a mosque and was raised in a secular household. He attends the United Church of Christ.

The anti-Muslim baiting has shadowed the Obama campaign for more than a year, when a widely circulated, yet untraceable, e-mail stated he was Muslim. The Obama campaign thinks enough of the power of these rumors that part of the campaign Web site is dedicated to debunking them, using headings such as "Barack is not and never has been a Muslim." The contents of the anonymous e-mails also have been debunked by various media outlets.

Still, for much of the last year, the Muslim whispers have largely passed below the mainstream media radar. ...

February 28, 2008 at 10:35 PM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | | (0)

Issues facing America: Voting rights in DC

I've been doing an informal series of video interviews with people about the issues on their minds during this pivotal election year. Recently I caught up with Kate Aishton, a resident of Washington, DC, who's a staffer at the Aspen Institute's Communications & Society Program.

Kate talked about the lack of representation in Congress for residents of DC. Here's our 2-minute video interview:

Watch video in MPEG-4 | Ourmedia page
Flash version on Internet Archive

February 28, 2008 at 03:52 PM in Current Affairs, Podcasts & interviews, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Did social media bring down Hillary Clinton?

SuccessCREEations: Hillary Clinton’s Approach to Social Media Killed Her Campaign.

Interesting read. I don't think social media had as much of an effect on the campaign as the writer suggests, though I do think it has helped Obama to some extent, especially with young people. But the Clinton camp's shortcomings can fill several blog posts, and social media would not be listed among the major contributing factors.

As for the Clinton campaign's approach to social media -- what approach? The entire ethos of social media is foreign to their command-and-control structure -- and that's been a big concern of dozens of notable political bloggers and social media pioneers I've spoken with over the past year who worried that the true effects of the social media revolution would be pushed out eight years by a Clinton victory.

In Obama, we have one of our own, someone who regularly and routinely discusses and understands what it means to build a grassroots, bottom-up campaign that we all have a stake in. If Obama wins the presidency, it will be exciting to see how that approach takes concrete shape in the nation's capital.

February 28, 2008 at 01:10 AM in Politics, Social-media | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Lessig decides not to run for Congress

First, the buildup to a possibly congressional candidacy by author and Stanford Prof. Lawrence Lessig.

Now today comes word that Lessig has decided not to run, and tells us why. (See video above.)

But the Change Congress movement goes on. I hope it achieves extraordinary results in the months ahead.

February 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | | (0)

When Facebook censors your political speech

When Facebook censors your political speech:

San Jose Mercury News: Obama vs. Facebook.

What is the difference between a Barack Obama supporter and a spammer?

According to Facebook, it can be as little as two "get out the vote" wall posts on a Web page maintained by the popular social-networking site.

On Wired's How-to wiki.

On myDD.

February 23, 2008 at 10:25 PM in Free speech, Politics, Social networks | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

McCain, the Times, that story and the senator's lobbyist ties

The fascinating fallout over the New York Times' story Thursday on John McCain's dubious ethical behavior:

Ask the Newsroom: The New York Times' top editors — and, far too briefly, one of the reporters — respond to readers' emailed questions.

Letters in the Times: The Furor Over the McCain Report.

David Brooks:The McCain World Rift.

At his press conference Thursday, McCain went all-in. He didn’t just say he didn’t remember a meeting about Iseman. He said there was no meeting. If it turns out that there is evidence of an affair and a meeting, then his presidential hopes will be over.

Well, I guess McCain is going home, then.

Michael Isikoff in today's Newsweek Web exclusive: A Hole in McCain’s Defense? An apparent contradiction in his response to lobbyist story.

[McCain's] flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself [in an affadavit from 5 years ago].

February 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM in Current Affairs, Media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Ask the Times reporters

Editors and reporters who worked on The Times's recent article about Senator John McCain will answer questions from readers Friday at Ask the Newsroom. It's not as good as the Washington Post's live chats — you have to email your question in advance — but it's better than nothing, and this article certainly warrants a conversation.

My guess is that it's a certainty that Times public editor Clark Hoyt will take up the issue on Sunday.

February 21, 2008 at 10:17 PM in Media, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Barack Obama bumper stickers

Ready to get on board the Barack Obama bandwagon? Cafe Press sells bumper stickers for $3.99 apiece. Took three days to get mine in the mail.

February 20, 2008 at 12:26 AM in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | | (0)

Change Congress