Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Tuesday Nov 11, 2008 8:00amIn One Ear… Out the Other: Bush secretly gave banks a $140 billion tax windfall
Wired: Bush spy revelations anticipated when Obama is sworn in
Brad DeLong: On Larry Summers...
Senate Guru: Looking at GA-Sen through the prism of Veterans Day. Meanwhile, in other still undecided Senate races
Endless Simmer: White House Guessing Game: Who will cook for Barack??
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: An increasingly clueless 'Dean'...NPR softballs for a liar...Oh look, another made-up story from the wingmutts...Fox News' Black Panther bullsh*t...Pro-Obama Media?...Press pretended that they didn't know Palin was completely over her head...Unchallenged lies and unexamined cliches...WaPo undercounts Iraq deaths...Lil' Debbie says WaPo should criticize Obama more to please conservatives...Media tell Obama--don't be a lefty like Clinton... WaPo GOP shill blames feminists and elitists for defeat...Was this sock puppet lying last week, or is he lying now?...Austrian journo slammed for racist rant...By their sleaze, ye shall know them...The columnist as campaign operative...They insisted it was a nailbiter....Prime example of what's wrong with Beltway journalism...Top Troubling Tropes of Campaign '08
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Could we deem Newscorp and FAUX news as the Anals of Journalism?
larry summers is going to be a good match with the obama administration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SJoIpTPk8
On CNN.Com
Obama team works to flesh out staff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BKs5FknCVI
It was very telling of Chris Wallace that after 6+ minutes of ducking barbs from Jon Stewart that Wallace could only praise the Obama family with superficial imagery. Faux News is Republicanism served up with a Sesame Street format. I'm guessing that young Chris chose Sesame Street over Mr. Rogers to accommodate his short attention span.
Brit Hume gives me sleep apnea.
NPR....now my second choice of programming behind I-Tunes favorites:
Skeptics guide to the Universe
Science Times
Science Magazine
Science Talk
Real Time w/ Bill Maher
Ring of Fire
The Great Outdoors
WildeBeat
SouthEastern Backpackers
Doing Stiff Outdoors
Slate Magazine...........etc.....etc.......I choose MY format
Mike Finnegan, thanks for the post.....great stuff!
No blog links for Veteran's Day? Not even IAVA?
http://www.optruth.org/
11/10/08: IAVA and Ad Council Launch Historic Campaign
Today, IAVA announces the launch of a ground-breaking, historic campaign with the Ad Council to ease the transition of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The campaign includes national PSAs and the first exclusive online social network for veterans.
Or IVAW?
We Must Listen to Veterans Not Just Today, But on the Other 364 Days Too
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/106511/we_...
Seems that all they need is a new org chart and some internet technology. After all, it wasn't their ideas that were rejected!
http://www.rebuildtheparty.com/
Well, that's the most positive case for Summers I've yet seen.
FAIR's troubling trope list is a very good recap.
Mike - shouldn't that be, in this case, the "anals" of journalism ;)
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