Press
American ‘history’ with a crystal ball
“John McCain takes the U.S. presidency with 277 electoral votes, winning Ohio and Florida by less than 1 percent of the vote. American policy on Iraq does not change.”
Thus begins a spectacularly creative “history” in this week’s issue of Esquire that takes the reader from Election Day of this year forward to the year 2083, when:
“The 150th anniversary issue of Esquire is made available via memory file — an instantaneous burst of binary information that’s absorbed through the retina from a disposable contact lens.”
Media feeling bite of Sarah’s pit bull tactics
Demonization campaigns – typically short on facts and long on hate – seem to have made the leap from our e-mail boxes to the campaign trail, this time with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin pushing the “send” button. Her gleeful assumption of the role of attack dog – taking off the gloves and putting [...]
Prez campaign zeitgeist
For those of you are struggling with a dangerous addiction to the presidential campaign, here is a little indulgence to feed your need, a little wrap-up of some patterns I’ve noticed over the past week. Read, discuss, comment.
Late last night, after most people had changed the channel or gone to bed, several TV networks announced [...]
Diagramming Sarah Palin’s words
One of the things many pundits noted about Gov. Sarah Palin’s performance in last night’s debate was her much-improved speaking ability.
Today’s Top Stories: Cheney cancels; Will McCain?
Barack Obama says he will be in Oxford, Miss., tonight, but as of early this morning John McCain remained adamant he would not participate in what would be the first presidential debate of the campaign unless Congress and the Bush administration reach consensus on a $700 billion financial industry bailout, ABC News reports.
Meanwhile, the network [...]
White campaign removes blogger’s photo from ad
Jon Knudsen, who blogs as Johnny Mango on the Duke City Fix, turned us on to the news that Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White’s campaign for Congress has already released a new version of its most recent ad — which originally contained an image pilfered from Knudsen’s blog.
In a post this afternoon, Knudsen wrote:
It only took [...]
Sheriff White in copyfight!
“Sheriff Darren White Stole My Picture…Then Tortured It!!!” That was Tuesday morning’s screaming headline on the Duke City Fix, a local social networking and community blogging Web site.
NMI… then and now
When I walked into the offices of the New Mexico Independent in September 1971 to deliver my first column, I smelled smoke, and oily ink, and hot paper.
In late 1970, Mark and Mary Beth Acuff, and a few investors, had bought El Independiente and its flat bed press. Along with the equipment came a contract [...]
Iglesias on the Daily Show
Gwyneth mentioned it in Today’s Top Stories, but David Iglesias was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night promoting his new book “In Justice: Inside the Scandal that Rocked the Bush Administration.” In the book, Iglesias recounted why he believes he was fired from his position as US attorney in New Mexico. [...]
King to sign shield law letter
State Attorney General Gary King will be signing a letter of support for a federal shield law for journalists this week.
If 36 state attorneys general sign on, the National Association of Attorneys General has said it will officially support the legislation at the national level, and possibly break a logjam in the U.S. Senate on [...]