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Saving journalism

Monday, June 14, 2010

I was asked to plug this upcoming forum, which I’m more than happy to do. The press release follows Public Forum: “Democracy vs. the Propaganda State:Why We Must Support Independent Media and Builda Real Alternative to Corporate Power” John Nichols, The Nation magazine Washington correspondent and co-author of the new book, “The Death and Life […]

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Hair

Friday, June 11, 2010

Seems that Carly Fiorina dissed Barbara Boxer’s hairstyle, which trivial incident is worthy of a front page article in the New York Times, which appears dedicated to the proposition that the incident is both totally trivial and monumentally important. Personally, trivial or not, I hope it hurts Fiorina, but I’m a partisan hack. What I […]

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Beltway wisdom

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Colin McEnroe sums up the disconnect between the Beltway crowd and the people of Connecticut on the Blumenthal issue. This is chronic with the insiders, the best example being their absolute astonishment that the majority of people in this country were sophisticated enough to realize that they had a pretty good president in Bill Clinton […]

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Context? We don’t need no stinkin’ context!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

This piece from the New York Daily News admirably illustrates the sloppiness of the press these days There was a special election in Hawaii yesterday, and the Republican won-with 39.4% of the vote; the balance split between two Democrats, neither one of whom had the grace to withdraw and give the other a clear field. […]

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Generally speaking

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Everyone has had fun watching Jon Stewart mocking Bernard Goldberg. Seems Bernie and company at Fox took umbrage at the way “liberals” generalized about tea party folks. Stewart agreed that it’s wrong to generalize, showed numerous clips of Goldberg and fox friends generalizing about liberals (which should include, I guess, the generalization that liberals engage […]

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Can you hear the people clamor? The media can.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Paul Choiniere of the Day has written a reasonably good op-ed piece about the tax situation in this state. He points out what everyone who pays attention already knows: that the tax burden in this state is regressive, and that despite the squawks of the business community the business tax burden is not especially high. […]

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More whining about tea parties

Friday, April 16, 2010

Yesterday I got cranky about the outsize attention lavished on tea parties. I should have waited a day, so that I could include the New London Day, which has spent much time and energy trying to placate the local right. It has done the Day no good, since it is still constantly attacked as a […]

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Fuzzy math

Thursday, April 15, 2010

An interesting problem in mathematics: How many left wing demonstrators does it take to equal one tea party demonstrator? Today’s Boston Globe makes Sarah Palin’s tea party appearance, before at most 6,000 people front page news. Okay, the home town paper. So how explain the front page article in today’s Times, earnestly trying to explain […]

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Some memes never die

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

They just evolve. Remember Lucky Duckies? Lucky duckies is a term that was used in Wall Street Journal editorials starting on 20 November 2002 to refer to Americans who pay no federal income tax because they are at an income level that is below the tax line (after deductions and credits). They’re back, in a […]

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Ted Mann does it again

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Best reporter in the state.

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