Behind Kucinich: Will MSM Cover Hillary's Fifth-Place Finish in Dean O
March 23rd, 2007 10:48 AM
At the end of his 2004 campaign, Howard Dean started Democracy for America, billed as a grassroots Democratic political action committee "dedicated to supporting fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates at all levels of government." Last week, DFA staged an online Dem presidential candidate preference poll. As a proud DFA member [meaning that I joined the email list], I just…
Edwards, Bloggers, and the 'Suspense' of Mysterious Press Conferences
March 22nd, 2007 4:34 PM
Today's Edwards announcement is an object lesson in how easy it is for us in the blogosphere to run with something juicy without double-checking the facts and/or being very, very careful to precisely word our posts so that we don't tell readers to take something to the bank that hasn't been confirmed. It's also a lesson in how to promptly and gracefully face the music and admit error.Earlier…
LAT Explores Marital Ties of Reporters to Presidential Campaign Staffe
March 19th, 2007 11:37 AM
In Monday's Los Angeles Times, reporter James Rainey raised the issue of a conflict between political reporting and family ties: "Some of America's most prominent political journalists are, quite literally, wedded to the 2008 presidential race: Their spouses work for one of the candidates." Rainey made a short list of four of the conflicted:
Obama's Unpaid 1980s Parking Tickets Virtually Ignored; Not a Bad 18-Y
March 14th, 2007 10:14 AM
There was somewhat interesting and awfully quiet news about the unpaid parking tickets of Barack Husseian Obambi Obama (who I call "BHOO" for short, with "Obambi" being the New York Times' Maureen Dowd's favorite nickname for the Illinois senator) in Cambridge, MA from the late 1980s.
Here is what the Somerville (MA) News reported:
..... Records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and…
