Arianna Huffington recently spoke before the Yale Political Union at a debate around the question, "Resolved: Blogs Are Good For Democracy." While Ar...
David Broockman | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
Blogging necessarily involves picking apart the stories told to us, and the Left has a long tradition of taking part in a similar exercise in deconstruction. But, I do not believe information and opinion completely capture what politics is.
Fernando Reyes | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
Digital democracy is the real possibility that individuals that have been empowered now have the tools to break through the ignorance that is possible by physical separation, which is the premise of modern technology.
Kate Maltby | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
The deeply personal nature of blogs, in combination with the echo chamber effect, has fueled the rise of single issue campaigning
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
I believe blogs do improve democracy, not by giving the authors a forum to express their ideas, but by giving ordinary citizens access to the ideas they care most about.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
By Stephen C. Rose Each morning I dutifully post links from sites I value for their news sense or opinion pertinence. Today the general theme is bai...
Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
With a little less than two hours to go before the two US presidential candidates flex their muscles at their first televised debate, bloggers from...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home
Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...
Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 09.04.2008 | Home
Love her or hate her, international bloggers say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin brought the house down when she addressed the Republican National Conve...
Zachary Karabell | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
Difficult economic times are supposed to benefit the party not in office. But by emphasizing the plight of many Americans, Obama has not gotten quite the bounce that one would think. Why?
Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.
Lissa Warren | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media
For the most part, blogs about books don't actually review any books. Instead, they cover the business of publishing and the culture surrounding it, and the world of the author.
Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media
Apparently I can push political agendas, but I'll always be seen as an Oprah-watching, bon-bon eating, Katie Couric-esque, shoe-shopping girl.
Jillian York | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
"Let us not forget that Obama was the one strong enough to speak out against the violence perpetrated on the Palestinian people. Where is that leader now? Will he return once elected?"
Henry Farrell | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business
There's a lot of talk among journalists and political commentators about how blogs are changing politics, but not much hard evidence. We've just posted an academic paper which presents evidence on who reads which blogs.
Lily Koppel | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
In our era where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.
Jeff Cohen | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media
When I think of today's blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of Josh Marshall or Glenn Greenwald or Arianna. I think of Izzy.
Richard Laermer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media
Sometimes blogs elevate the dialogue, sometimes they're clutter. The nature of the blog itself is that there is no nature. It's like the Bush Administration's risible War on Terrorism: terrorism is not warring with us.
RJ Eskow | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
But really, McCain staffers: about that song choice -- couldn't you do better than "Take a Chance On Me" to woo women voters? There are so many better choices from ABBA's ouevre.
Dave Hollander | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media
Enough with the announcers; we'll take our own journey and become an informed and engaged sports viewership that doesn't need escalating audio-visual effects to enjoy what it's watching.
John McQuaid | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
Papers have to protect and nourish two things they already have -- reporting and the newspaper "brand." Original voices and journalistic credibility are pretty much all papers have left.
Martin Varsavsky | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
An old media reputation, good or bad, seems to be deeper and longer lasting than the flavor of the month reputation that the Internet builds.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media
Over the last few weeks I have been writing about the plight of security guards working for a company called Inter-Con, a contractor at Kaiser Permane...
Ari Melber | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
In a speech at a Harvard conference on the future of the web, Josh Marshall said traditional reporters are "terrorized" by economic and competitive challenges, living with a mix of "denial and fatalism" about the future of their craft -- and their livelihoods.
New York Times | MATT RICHTEL | Posted 04.06.2008 | Media
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece -- not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know...
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Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media