Stevie Wonder Soundtracks Obama's Near-Stunner in Ind.
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Citizen Kate got with some of the just-under-half of Indiana that voted Obama on Tuesday. Stevie Wonder led the chorus at a rally in Indianapolis:
What...
From The UpTake
Citizen Kate got with some of the just-under-half of Indiana that voted Obama on Tuesday. Stevie Wonder led the chorus at a rally in Indianapolis:
What...
The Uptake | Posted May 5, 2008 | Off The Bus
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From the progressive center of North Carolina comes this report from Brian Russell of yesh.com. He explores why music and politics go hand in hand, why...
The Uptake | Posted May 5, 2008 | Off The Bus
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Citizen Kate catches up with Old Hollywood Celebrities at a Hillary Clinton event in Indianapolis, Indiana: "So I made it to my first big Hillary event...
The Uptake | Posted May 1, 2008 | Off The Bus
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Minnesota's Republican Party seems... camera-shy. Over the past several months, Republicans have prevented journalists from recording their candidates at events. The latest incident saw reporter Gavin Sullivan...
Craig Newmark | Posted April 19, 2008 | Media
Hey, the folks at American Public Media are doing some really good new stuff:
American Public Media's Center for Innovation in Journalism is spreading a new model that turns newsrooms and the audience into partners. Public Insight Journalism means: Stories that matter because they come from those living the news; Reporters...
Tom Alderman | Posted April 17, 2008 | Media
"'Citizen Journalist' Broke Obama Story," reads the headline in the Los Angeles Times. The 'citizen' is HuffPo blogger, Mayhill Fowler. The story is the exclusive recording and article about Obama's 'bitter' bite from his speech about small towns - which became as ubiquitous on TV screens as "Law and Order."...
John Tomasic | Posted April 15, 2008 | Off The Bus
In the wake of the OffTheBus Mayhill Fowler story that ignited a media storm this weekend over Barack Obama's comments on working-class voters, many of the OffTheBus community contributors-- unpaid volunteers all-- expressed their thoughts on the story and its interpretation across the media landscape. The story prompted some...
Erik Ringmar | Posted February 14, 2008 | Media
Last Tuesday, CNN fired Chez Pazienza, a producer for American Morning, for maintaining a blog. Yes, that's right. CNN, a leading news channel, sacked one of its journalists for exercising his First Amendment rights. Catch the CNN bosses in the daylight and you know what they'll say. "Of course...
Dan Froomkin | Posted December 4, 2007 | Politics
Bloggers and other citizen journalists have a new and exciting opportunity to find and shed light on stories the mainstream media are missing -- by combing through transcripts of recent Congressional oversight hearings. Without any fanfare, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has started posting preliminary transcripts of many...
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted November 28, 2007 | Media
What news coverage of the Paris riots needs is citizen journalists who live within the troubled suburbs and are willing to contribute, anonymously or not, to a blog or a newspaper Web site or any other forum that lends insight into the mindset and tactics of the rioters.
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Arianna Huffington | Posted November 20, 2007 | Politics
The impact of polls and polling on our political process continues to be one of the unexplored stories of the 2008 race.
Take the remarkable gap -- chasm, really -- between the widening lead national polls continue to anoint Hillary Clinton with and the current dead heat in Iowa and...
NY Times | KATHARINE Q. SEELYE | October 30, 2007 11:49 AM
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
NEW UPDATE BELOW As violence in Iraq continues -- clashes today left 11 dead and 19 injured -- President...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
The Uptake | Posted May 8, 2008 | Off The Bus