Posts tagged media

‎I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

LA Times: Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer Prize

How excruciating it must’ve been for the Times staffer to type each letter, space and punctuation mark in this piece, let alone concentrate above the din of their gnashing teeth and the other budget-cut-shoes dropping.

Could ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail’ become a new metaphor in politics?
Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo DEEP THOUGHT on South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s puzzling “disappearance”
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

Sarah Palin: Thanks, but no!

The Living Room Candidate

‘Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008’



‘Decisions’, from the 1968 Nixon-Agnew campaign. Talk about playing the fear card deck. Cripes!

Where's Keef?

Olbermann reassigned to cover Hurricane Gustav on Monday. How tight will the reins be Tuesday-Thursday? All is apparently not fair or balanced in love money and war politics.
msrnc: the place for (the right) politics

“Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy”

1960 Presidential campaign ad. No smears. No slights. No gotchas. Would a 21st Century candidate approve this message? (via)

© Bob Englehart - The Hartford Courant (via Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index)

© Bob Englehart - The Hartford Courant (via Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index)