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Time Warner: Brown Is The New Gay

Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.01.2007 | Media


Marty Kaplan

CNN thinks Mexicans Gone Wild is a sexier topic for our country to fight about in 2007 and 2008 than health care, education, the environment, energy, and all the other issues that got shockingly short shrift at the YouTubaganza.

CNN: Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.30.2007 | Media


Marty Kaplan

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.

CNN-YouTube Debate Producer Doubts The Wisdom Of Letting Online Voters Set The Agenda

Wired | Sarah Lai Stirland | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics


As Republican presidential contenders brace for Wednesday's CNN-YouTube debate, the executive in charge of the event is unapologetic about his decisio...

The CNN/RubeTube Debate

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics


Marty Kaplan

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.