Hold Fast

On further reflection, political discourse in this country would be even higher if everyone was Cornel West.

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We would have a much higher level of political discourse in America if everyone spoke like Cornel West.

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I remember a time when Gail Collins was a columnist for the New York Times and didn’t use her column to do an impersonation of her colleague Maureen Dowd twice weekly.

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I didn’t watch last night’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC. Judging from the blogospheric reaction, I didn’t miss much. You know the debate was a disaster when the Washington Post’s TV critic Tom Shales rips ABC and their moderators like he does in this piece, “In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC.” Shales writes:
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Glenn Greenwald drops ten tons of irony after dissecting an inane biographical interview of Attorney General Michael Mukasey by the Associated Press in a post called “The Associated Press fails to reveal Mukasey’s favorite color”:
This is why the Founders bestowed constitutional primacy to a free press. Just think about what the Government might be able […]

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When last we saw New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, he was engaged in some serious wankery by asking his Chinese readers to submit comments to him about what they think about what’s going on in Tibet, but made no similar request for input from Tibetans. Yesterday the column based on input from readers ran […]

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Athenae has a recap of some of her presentation at EschaCon on the media and how the dynamics of a failing business model, laziness, stupidity, and sensationalism are all contributing to the decline of journalism in America.
My remarks at the panel on journalism can basically be boiled down to “never ascribe to bias what laziness […]

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Today’s New York Times has a piece about how young voters are getting news online, sharing it socially, and avoiding traditional outlets like the six o’clock news in favor of internet outlets for similar information. The Times ties metrics speaking to the voracious consumption of news online by young people to the massive rise of […]

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Paul Krugman, responding in part to Glenn Greenwald’s post today, writes:
Reading some of today’s news, it suddenly struck me: we’re living in the age of the anti-Cassandra.
Cassandra had the gift of prophecy — she saw, correctly, what was coming — but was under a curse: nobody would believe her.
Today, our public discourse is dominated by […]

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I’ve been in Europe for five days. In that time I’ve watched a fair bit of news on the BBC and broadcasts of CNN Europe and CNN Asia. While these TV news outlets are all covering the US presidential election on an almost hourly basis, I haven’t once seen these media outlets devolve into coverage […]

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