Sure, Americans say they want leaders who get things done, work across the aisle, put partisanship aside for the common good, blah blah blah. They also say they eat vegetables.
What a difference a poll makes. Say ta-ta to triangulation, Hillary. Scrap that pox-on-boomer-era culture wars, Barack.
It turns out that -- just as there are conservatives, liberals and moderates -- there are people with red, blue and purple taste.
The FCC Chairman has taken to the op-ed page of the New York Times to propose that big-city papers should now be permitted to purchase a television or radio station in their market.
In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn't to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn't to find truth, but to disclose "framing."
A crew from UnitedHollywood.com -- the Writers Guild's strike site -- came to chat with me about the backstory to the consolidation of power in the media industry.
The notion that the CNN/YouTube debate represents a grass-roots triumph of the Internet age is laughable. The faux populism of the format is an Orwellian leap even for CNN.
If CNN's clumsiness in handling this weren't so hilarious, it would be (to pick a random phrase) pretty infuriating.
In case CNN's executives and flacks thinks they've done a heckuva damage control job and put this battered debate baby to bed, here's a checklist of contradictions and disparities coming out of their mouths.
