Yes, what powerful people tell each other is important. But it’s not the only thing that matters.
Media
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White House Reporters versus the Obama Administration
Are they a bunch of whiners, or do they have a legitimate gripe? The answer is yes to both.
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Today’s Delicious Right-Wing Infighting
It shows that things are more complex than a conflict between the establishment and the Tea Party.
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Why Fox Dumped Dick Morris
Being the most consistently wrong pundit in America was only part of the problem.
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Why Playwrights Aren’t Political Analysts
David Mamet shows that being an accomplished writer doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of writing some pretty stupid things.
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The Glory of Earned Media
The Washington Post gives Bobby Jindal a big wet kiss.
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Aaron Swartz’s Final Code
The death of an Internet freedom activist points to the future of popular resistance.
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Bring Me Your Angry, Your Paranoid, Your Masses Huddled In Their Bunkers…
Glenn Beck announces plans to build an entire city, where the crazy can be contained in one place.
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Media Violence versus Real Violence
In the days since Wayne LaPierre of the NRA blamed the Sandy Hook massacre on violent movies and video games (in particular, for some reason, Natural Born Killers, a film that came out 19 years ago and was a critique of the media’s obsession with violence), a number of people in the entertainment industry have […]
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More Downton Abbey, Less Grand Theft Auto? Not Gonna Happen.
Last week, my sort-of opposite number at ThinkProgress.org-culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, who also writes for The Atlantic and Slate-posted the kind of prescriptive think piece about Our Violent Culture that makes old geezers like me heave a hefty sigh as we finger our own dog-eared membership cards in the vast left-wing conspiracy. Just for the […]
