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One persistent meme about U.S. and European politics maintains that all parties are in the grip of plutocrats and that’s why very little substantive reform happens no matter who is in power. Peter Oborne offers a different and intriguing perspective focusing on the role of the media and those politicians who are servants to it: [...]
Archive for the ‘MSM (mainstream media)’ Category
July 29th, 2011
July 5th, 2011
Category: MSM (mainstream media), Watching Conservatives
“Even Reagan, a supply-sider persuaded by Arthur Laffer’s pretty curves that tax cuts would pay for themselves, raised taxes when they did not. Today’s Republicans show no such flexibility.” “Now the Republicans are using the spectre of a debt default to impose their own radical vision of how to reform America, before having won control [...]
June 3rd, 2011
Category: MSM (mainstream media), Water
China has a water problem. A BIG water problem. Are the media underestimating just how big it is because they live in wet places?
May 11th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy, MSM (mainstream media)
Glossy magazines should not take tobacco ads.
May 3rd, 2011
Category: Blogging, MSM (mainstream media)
Why bloggers are useful: the biggest risks are too boring to sell papers.
May 2nd, 2011
Category: MSM (mainstream media), Rhetoric and Framing
While we weren’t looking, “adult” came to mean “pro-business.”
April 25th, 2011
Obviously, the reason why Franklin Graham used his national television appearances on Easter Sunday to promote Birtherism is because President Obama has not invited him to the White House for lunch. Really.
April 19th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, MSM (mainstream media)
Congratulations to David Leonhardt, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and others. A dissent on the Wall Street Journal.
April 18th, 2011
I’m glad that Mike thinks that civilization has returned to the Bay Area. It’s about time. Here in Los Angeles, we have had a superb classical station, an excellent jazz station, two terrific news and general-interest programming stations, and a sort of mix-and-match music-news etc. station for a while. I couldn’t really expect such diversity [...]
April 17th, 2011
Many years ago, the typical public radio station played classical music and some jazz all day, news like Morning Edition and All Things Considered at drive time, some public affairs or newsy features in the early evening, and more music at night. About the time I moved to Berkeley in 1991, public stations started doing [...]
