So today I attended a symposium sponsored by Google and National Journal entitled the First 21st Century Campaign at Google’s DC headquarters. The first panel, which included Time's Mark Halperin, right wing blogger Mary Katherine Ham, The Politico’s James Kotecki, Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Communications Director Phil Singer and Mitt Romney’s Communications Director Kevin Madden, focused on the future of political coverage in light of the changing power and influence of the players involved. In my opinion, what was the perfect opportunity for a dialogue concerning how the interactions among campaigns, mainstream media and the electorate are changing devolved into the common dispute between old and new media. Read More »
As a self-confessed pop-culture junkie who loves free stuff, I've been trolling PopSugar (and it's sister sites) for about a year now. The Sugar blogs just released a new addition to the team: CitizenSugar. It's a news and politics blog which emphasizes the poppy, fun elements of elections and issues.
I think it could be really effective in selling politics to those who might otherwise write it off as boring, as well as providing politicos with juicy tidbits about Washington's finest.
And here's an awesome incentive to start reading. CitizenSugar is giving away a News Junkie package a week for the next four weeks. According to them:
"The package includes a Sirius radio (it works in your home and in your car), a TiVo HD DVR with a year of service, and the inky-goodness of the New York Times, thumping on your doormat every Sunday for 12 weeks."
If one of you win and I don't, I am going to be mad. But I suppose that's a pretty good tradeoff for Tivo and the Times.
Check out the Chronicle's new group blog, Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind. They have a roster of professors who come mainly from arts or cultural studies backgrounds. Let's hope this works out better than the New Republic's Open University, which has been moribund for months at this point. The last post was Nov. 29, and the one before that was Nov. 22.
More surprising than Cindy Sheehan's return from her ostensible break from activism is her willingness to embrace conservative cant against the income tax:
The Federal Reserve, permanent federal (and unconstitutional) income taxes, Japanese Concentration Camps and, not one, but two atom bombs dropped on the innocent citizens of Japan were brought to us via the Democrats.
The 16th amendment empowers the majority to legislate against subjugation and plutocracy. It institutes a critical tool to confront on the badges of slavery abjured in the 13th amendment and realize the equal protection promised in the 14th.
Cindy Sheehan's inane legal argument and her outrageous ethical argument against the income tax are disappointing. What's more discouraging is skimming through the comments and realizing that taking on Nancy Pelosi arouses more outrage from DailyKos commenters than taking on the income tax.
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