April 2011
“In the first quarter of 2011, “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric”...”
– on the evening news
“During his presidency, no one ever questioned whether George W. Bush was...”
– Is Obama an ‘affirmative action president’? (via robot-heart-politics)
Oh, USA. Your grand priorities.
(via mehreenkasana)
Fantastic quote.
(via squee-gee)
In a country where the conservatives are calling for bootstraps and earning your way in the world, they seem entirely nonplussed by the...
“In response, Obama tried to ignore the issue, or tried to shame commentators who...”
– lines like this are such total bullshit.
“I don’t live a life of crime man, I live a life of FRESHNESS!”
– Shaggy 2 Dope (via theopie)
Hellz yes.
“Still, it seems that Obama can’t stay out of trouble. In July,...”
– from a super interesting piece in Captial, “Was Barack Obama Sr. ‘eased’ out of Harvard, and America, for dating white women?”
“This is more than a statistical story. It is the end of the Age of America. As a...”
– Marketwatch, “IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end Commentary: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016”
I grew up in the Age of America and it was awesome (for Americans).
Responses to Jarvis's 'Hard economic lessons for...
A few quick points about Jarvis’s “Hard economic lessons for news”:
First, a lot of conflation of terms like “news”, “journalism”, “newspapers”, etc. But still, all really good reminders about entitlement and how it has no place in the discussion about publishing, even though it’s the major theme of industry leaders and their...
“Two of Dr. DeWall’s co-authors, W. Keith Campbell and Jean M. Twenge, published...”
– NYTimes: A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics
“As you may know, Google recently altered its algorithm to keep low-quality...”
– The Real Value of the Huffington Post’s Blogs
yeah, don’t be more like the HuffPo
“No, there is no barbed wire around West Baltimore. No, there is no political...”
– from David Simon, via Andrew Sullivan
Two recent David Simon quotes? What’s happened to me!?
The 'when' of news and information: the strategic...
Mobile is obviously growing into a monster presence for digital, but I’ve never really bought into mobile as a spot with strategic advantage for media outlets and journalists. Not for awhile, anyway.
A fun fact via Tony Thomas — and this blows my mind — about just how fast mobile is developing: in February, smart phones outsold personal computers, which wasn’t supposed...
“Bill Moyers: I read something you recently told The Guardian in London: “Oh, to...”
– Guernica / The Straight Dope (via tomelko)
I’m not a David Simon fan, but it’s inarguable that he has tremendous insight into the world of newspapers, and to hear someone like this say “I mean, the guys who are running newspapers over the last twenty or thirty years have to be...
“These days in the budget-strapped, Tea-Party-besieged State Capitol, you can be...”
– this article is simply amazing. Texas is quickly on their way to becoming an actual idiocracy. This one is pretty crazy, too:
Villarreal has had a rather dark view of the rationality of some of his colleagues ever since he tried to improve the state’s abstinence-only sex education programs by...
WatchHillary Clinton and Kissenger on Charlie Rose, talkin’ shop.
this is cool, but it’s also crazy
“From the Jonathans Franzen and Lethem to working musician Rick Moody, from...”
– Ann Powers on literature, pop and the Pulitzer Prize. (via frontofbook)
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How Much is a Facebook Fan Worth?
So I came across a tweet that linked to a piece — sorry, forgot who sent it and where it went too; bad form, I know, sorry — that linked to two wildly different estimates on the value of a Facebook follower.
On the one hand, this one cites a measurement firm report that averages the value out to $136.38. On the other hand, this one tries to back into a value based off of impression...
“Right now, 90 percent of the juveniles locked up in the Hennepin County...”
– Hennepin County District Judge Lucy Wieland (via thomaslowrysghost)
ugh.
Watchyou should watch this episode of Charlie Rose — it does a great job of pairing Jack Lew, who knows what he’s talking about and uses clear real examples, with Paul Ryan, who repeats empty phrases over and over, and the contrast is stark
Trait of Post-Empire America, No. 357
Chuck Klosterman is still getting gigs.
“But several years after the financial crisis, which was caused in large part by...”
– In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures ~ NYTimes
Well of course not.
“When I was in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising, I wanted to change hotels one...”
– This may be the most Tom Friedman lede in the history of Tom Friedman ledes. (via cajunboy)
I have no doubt that Friedman has more Marriott Rewards points than Bill Kristol.
(via edkohler)
Ughhhhh…
“Content marketing is the ONLY marketing left.”
– Seth Godin (via whycontentmatters)
What? Lol, not at all!
RT @tafoyashow: Aren’t you getting tired of class warfare? This:Taxes and Politics http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/04/13/taxes_and_politics via @townhallcom
Supporting that last post, here’s a tweet this morning from Tafoya Jackson that links to an opinion piece on Town Hall that is exactly the kind of writing that isn’t “wrong” or...
“There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have...”
– Noam Chomsky on Newt Gingrich in 1996. (via thenoobyorker)
ha!
you know, if you follow America’s political discourse for more than two years, you realize that “political understanding” is a knowledge base that the vast majority of citizens don’t have. And I don’t...
“Uptown… you are a neon wasteland limping in stilettos.”
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- Dessa (via leahxrobot)
Uptown has been a lightning rod forever. Back in the early 80s when Calhoun Square (a former school) was proposed, a lot of the small businesses opposed it. Their rallying cry was “No UpDale”, a reference to the Dales malls. But it was built, and a tolerable level of...
“But as it turns out, the buck stopped just short of Mr. Dubow and other...”
– Carr in the Times on Gannett
Ask me some time about my Gannett “fiddle” story.