News Cycle

"Not a Big Fan of TV": Is an Organic Information Revolution on the Horizon?

Schuyler Brown | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

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Schuyler Brown

I've been noticing a trend in conversations with consumers. There's a growing awareness that our media diets are killing us, and an accompanying resistance to do anything about it.

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Amusing Ourselves to Death -- How to Waste Our Last (Obama) Chance

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

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Frank Schaeffer

President Obama is a serious man trying to rescue a frivolous trivialized nation with the attention span of an inebriated jellyfish.

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Friday Talking Points [53] -- Why McCain Is Losing, And Why Democrats Shouldn't Say So

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...

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Get Your War On: Dominating the News Cycle (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 03.10.2009 | Comedy

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The Get Your War On guys have an honest and frank discussion about the role of media in our lives. ...

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Media Miss Crucial Election Speech On Global Poverty

Steve Miller | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Child Mortality, HIV/AIDS, Education, Economic Crisis, Malaria, Henry Paulson, News Cycle, Election 2008, Global Poverty, Media, Development, Wall Street, Barack Obama, John McCain, Home News
Steve Miller

The media act incapable of covering more than one subject at a time. What was ignored yesterday was an Obama speech in which he laid out a clear and concise plan to deal with Global Warming, AIDS, Malaria and, yes, the economic crisis.

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YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, iPods, Enough!

Judy Muller | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

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Judy Muller

Ah, for the good old days, before we were immersed in the free-floating anxiety of the nanosecond news cycle that follow us everywhere, telling us that the sky is falling.

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The Outrage Campaign

John McQuaid | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media

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John McQuaid

The McCain campaign is violating what were considered immutable political laws, and it amounts to a giant and risky bet that those laws are no longer operative.

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Cable TV Should Be Ashamed

Rusty Russell | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

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Rusty Russell

Cable TV fails to do its job: report on and analyze the candidates' policies. It's like they think we only care about lipstick. Viewers are left completely unaware of dozens of serious issues that dramatically impact enormous swaths of the population.

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Bittergate's Wobbly Legs: Signs of Media Evolution?

John K. Wilson | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home

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John K. Wilson

Obama's bounce in the polls this week is more than a mere candidate "surge." It's a repudiation of the nattering nabob media which imagined clumsy wording could send his campaign into a glorious tailspin.

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