Mumbai Attacks and the Future of News

It’s too early to digest the still moving situation in India. But watching twitter and the Indian government’s response to the messages being posted from around the world it is clear a new era in world wide event coverage has begun.

CNN is going to have HOLOGRAMS tomorrow!

 
Sorry guys, I needed to post something light-hearted this afternoon. Apparently not content with having cool screens where they can tap and stretch things ala iPhone, CNN is employing what they call the hologram. From the USA Today Story:
 
…instead of the split screen or window TV viewers might typically see during live remote interviews, the [...]

Polling Data Drives the Narrative

Were I to weild a mighty hatchet in the world of media, my first hack would be at Rush Limbaugh. The second would be at polling data. Every major news organization these days seems to partner with another major news organization or university to generate polling data among “registered voters” or “likely voters.” I am [...]

How the Blogosphere changed the Election

Much has been made of the blogosphere, and the twitterverse and many have questioned the value of this level of meta-chatter as part of our national political discourse. The blogosphere has been debunked as the “echo-chamber” little more than a place where like minded people repeated their opinions (often based on bias information) back to [...]

Unringing the Bell

There are 45 days left to go until the election. With that kind of time. I thought it might make sense to remind everyone of the real issues facing the American people. They’re listed in no particular order.
The federal purchase of ALL bad mortgage debt in the nation
The war in Iraq
The war in Afghanistan
Lipstick [...]

Guess what Liberals: Now you have a woman to hate

I spent a lot (some would say too much) time today reading blogs, columns and comment boards on the Palin speech of last night. The commentary was either overwhelmingly positive. This unknown burst onto the scene and wowed the crowd at the Xcel center. Or they are fiercely negative. She is the anti-christ in beauty-queen form. The [...]

Politico “Apologizes” For Questioning Palin

Roger Simon of Politico thinks the media should say it’s sorry for questioning Sarah Palin’s credentials in the press. The same way that Swift suggested the Irish boil babies to feed the famished. Read it here. Bravo, Roger.

Campaign coverage=garbage

So says Chris Lehman, Senior editor of CQ and a co-editor at Bookforum in this interview piece for Harper’s. His take of the current state of political coverage is right on point. Some of my favorites quotes:
The reporters and editors who are composing these inane pieces are pretty much talking to each other. I saw [...]

Russia and Georgia, has the Media already blown it?

UPDATE: Georgia is calling for a cease-fire. Russia refuses.

The conflict intensifies between Russia and Georgia, and our media is failing to educate us as to what’s going on. In a rush to cover this as a political football, parsing out every word Senators Obama and McCain are saying on the subject, we have lost the [...]

John McCain, cranky old man?

John McCain has two problems right now. The first is that is he is reacting to Obama. Obama spends 9 days overseas, McCain is reduced to becoming one of the many media critics and general commenters. He complained about a lack of media coverage, but there really wasn’t much to cover.
Second, the McCain camp has [...]