Jon Stewart on Fresh Air
Thursday, 30 September 2004I also heard an interview with Jon Stewart on Fresh Air tonight. He talked at length about how the broadcast media in America is failing us. Namely, both the left and the right are allowed to tell ever bigger lies, and the broadcast media never questions them. (The questioning often happens days later in the [...]
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Debate Response
Thursday, 30 September 2004Before the spin machine gets up to full dizzying speed (or at least before I expose myself to it), a couple of impressions of the debate. I listened to the first half on NPR while driving back from some erannds in Roanoke; the second half I watched mostly on C-SPAN, but I flipped around to [...]
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I, for One, Welcome Our New Art Deco Overlords
Thursday, 30 September 2004Here’s the CNN story. The thing is described by an eyewitness as a plain white blimp, with no insignia or other markings at all. I don’t really have enormous problems with surveillance cameras, in general. (Though one should be very careful with what happens to the data — preferably destroy it after a short time.) [...]
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Good News
Thursday, 30 September 2004My morning news read was chock full of good news this morning, nearly (but not quite) pulling me out of my dark fear that Kerry’s campaign might be a sinking ship. In no particular order, we have: * John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and lifelong Republican, endorses John Kerry. Not a huge [...]
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Al Gore on the Debates
Wednesday, 29 September 2004Al Gore has some good advice for John Kerry in today’s NY Times. From my point of view, the Kerry campaign has been doing a pretty lousy job. They aren’t controlling the news cycle very well, and they are constantly on the defensive. The debates, as scripted as they seem, are a good opportunity to [...]
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My Secret Oklahoma Readership
Tuesday, 28 September 2004I got a link back from Running Scared, which is really excellent. Strangely, Jazz was tipped off by “a reader in Tulsa.” I don’t know anyone in Tulsa, as far as I know. (I can think of one person I know in Oklahoma, but she lives in or around Oklahoma City and probably doesn’t read [...]
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