tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77552352011-05-26T12:19:26.943-04:00Exploring information and narratives -- the design, production, distribution, business models, and genres of information and how we explain the familiar and foreign in politics, economics, culture, science and technology<br /> [<em>Site still under construction -- July 2004 -- the political season produces floods of information and rapidly evolving narratives, focus thru November is US politics</em>] Lady Cnoreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1093140219656189692004-08-21T21:35:00.000-04:002004-08-21T22:27:01.203-04:00

Maryscott O'Connor over at MyDD provides a handy itemization (with some personal additions) of David Corn's encylopedic compendium of President Bush's falsehoods, distortions of facts, and misrepresentations. And it's stimulated an excellent response from a reader, who notes that "They're not lies, they're stories." There is a difference. It is extremely important to 1) understand Mr. Bush

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1093053387544132602004-08-20T21:56:00.000-04:002004-08-20T22:35:18.403-04:00

DNC Boston - July 2004 - The Prince of Darkness in Full Flight

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1093053057310932182004-08-20T21:50:00.001-04:002004-08-20T22:28:31.430-04:00

To add another gratuitous bruise, this time courtesy The Onion of August 18. But they're a tough crowd are New Jerseyites, and they're ready for the next big one, surely coming before November 2, and surely more Onion-fodder. Homosexual Tearfully Admits Being Governor of New Jersey

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1092865477449874472004-08-18T17:44:00.000-04:002004-08-18T17:49:59.220-04:00

From World o'Crap's review of this week's Town Hall features:Brent BozellIt's SO UNFAIR that the "cream of the liberal media crop" won't report on the Swift Boat Vets allegations, but they DID cover Kerry's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention. It's like they are in love with Kerry or something, because they NEVER give Bush any favorable media coverage! In February, when the story was

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1092230302286969002004-08-11T09:18:00.000-04:002004-08-11T09:18:22.326-04:00

Ken Layne does an interesting exercise, checking the standard story-fodder of cable TV -- especially trials and abductions -- against the top topics in the blogosphere. And he finds a pretty big disconnect. Anyway, this morning I was trudging through the mud flats where the desert used to be right behind the house -- a "new development" is being built, which means it's almost time to move again -

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1092200437667657352004-08-11T01:00:00.000-04:002004-08-11T01:00:37.673-04:00

Dead Fox Bounce I've been resisting the impulse to join in the witless debate over whether Kerry did or did not get a "bounce" out of the Democratic convention - both because I'm trying to break my own unproductive and unhealthy fixation with the latest polls, and because I think the basic premise of the argument, at least as it's been presented in the mainstream media, is dead wrong. The

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1092199122969766372004-08-11T00:38:00.000-04:002004-08-11T00:42:18.143-04:00

Atrios' readers have some interesting angles on the "blogs and journalism" topic discussed below.From veritas 20001, on the quality and levels of analysis found on blogs, highlighting the "self-disciplining" feature of blogs:I have been a recent guest to this blog and others. I guess this was for a reason: I used to think of blogs as self-indulgences promoting a certain opinion -- and we all know

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1092195683014354642004-08-10T23:41:00.000-04:002004-08-10T23:41:23.020-04:00

One of the most to-the-point notes on how blogging compares with journalism -- in this case TV journalism--comes from Atrios: Metablogging One question I find rather silly is the "is blogging journalism?" question. The fact is, most of what we've agreed to collectively call "journalism" isn't really "journalism" -- or, to the extent that it is, much of it isn't any different from blogging. A big

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Not a nation divided, just a nation deafened So says Jeff Jarvis, with some interesting evidence: I've been saying for sometime that we are not a nation divided -- that's just how media and politicians want to portray us because it fits their agendas. The truth is that we all have lives; they don't. So they spend their time shouting at us, deafening us. But they don't represent us. I'm

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Tamara Baker makes a useful distinction between the headline numbers and the internals. But even with the headline numbers, the MSM provides a rather puzzling story of the post-convention bounce that wasn't. Kerry clearly made headway across a variety of indicators. Given the size of the electorate that (1) said it had already made up its mind pre-convention and/or (2) wasn't watching, the Dems

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An interesting example today of how, at least theoretically, over time widespread perceptions of an ethnic group can be modified by care for accurate stories and language. MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER "A PBS mind in an MTV world." MrsB@newsblues.com Mrs. B today passes along a request from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists asking us not to use the term "Hispanic" as a

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The NYT carries an article translated from Der Spiegel discussing the Fox News phenomenon (hat tip mnewsblues.com, sub req'd). While acknowledging Fox's success vis a vis other cable networks, the author, Jan Fleischhauer, writes that "an alliance is beginning to form against the troops of Australian-American Bush champion Rupert Murdoch."The article rehearses the well-known accusations of

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Brian Lambert asks in the Twin Cities.com Pioneer Press "Why don't the networks put news in prime time?" I have a stock question for network news and programming honchos. It's a question that never fails to set the gurus' eyes rolling, and it invariably elicits a big sigh, as if to say I must have just fallen off a turnip truck or something. It is: "Why not move the nightly news into prime time

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So what if it's scripted -- they're just lazy -- Comments by Pandagon on the Democratic conventionThis Dan Rather piece reveals every single stupid thing wrong with convention coverage. I respect Rather a great deal less after reading this, because it's the laziest, soppiest sack of sh*t I've ever read. Nothing's dropped into the media's lap, so instead of trying to find a story about something,

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1091374782001703512004-07-29T11:39:00.000-04:002004-08-01T12:35:45.923-04:00

Is the media reading from an out-of-date script?From Nadezhda at Tacitus, in response to posts on convention content.Day 3 Convention Open ThreadUpdate [2004-7-28 17:49:47 by Macallan]: This is rather interesting. From NRO's Kerry Spot, apparently the Bush campaign "have measured, in seconds, the total time in seconds the major convention figures have spoken, and then counted how much time was

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There has been much talk in recent weeks about President Bush's shift from pronouncing himself the "war" president to the "peace" president in a second term. In the aftermath of the release of the 9/11 Commission's report, another refrain is emerging. Are we we "safe", though relative to what is unclear -- safer than before 9/11? safe from terrorist using chemical weapons? bioweapons? dirty bombs

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Gearing up for Night 1 at the Democrat's convention, when Hillary, Bill and Al take the podium, Ron Brownstein notes in today's LA Times that Clinton's Critique of His Successor Takes On a Harder Edge.

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From a commenter at Talk Left Its not ABB, its ALFBB (any life form) --  I'd vote for a cave salamander or a fruit bat first.   Actually, now that I think of it, its ATBB (anything) -- if its Bush or my toaster oven, my bathroom plunger, well...  sorry George. Posted by j.w at July 17, 2004 11:37 PM Now can the Democrats and Kerry "close the deal" with the American people in Boston and

Lady Cnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755235.post-1090868289584952712004-07-11T13:25:00.000-04:002004-07-26T16:44:08.043-04:00

"Nazi" debate enflaming the blogosphere. It is doubtful whether any light has been shed on the appropriateness of the Nazi allusions (or even, in the case of the Bush/Cheney ad, on WTF the Hitler clips were trying to say!)   What can be demonstrated by these incidents, however, is that Godwin's Law applies outside internet discussion threads -- in this case, televis-"able" political "

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LA Times: Clinton's Biggest Gains Not on Conservatives' Radar: Ron Brownstein has an excellent riposte to the Right's denigration of all things Clinton, including their disparagement of the notion that Clinton's eight years accomplished anything beyond the "trivial."Athough agreeing with critics such as C Krauthammer that "Clinton certainly pursued his share of 'small bore' initiatives, like

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It's just had enough of being dissed I mean, I know we Democrats are the mommy party and all, but push mommy far enough and she becomes a screaming bitch on wheels. What did they expect? Digby in Hullabaloo, responding to a "Weakly Standard" article, via Matthew Yglesias, in which the author warns the Left that its extemism may produce an ugly counter-reaction. Joel Engel suggests a

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