This video mash-up served as my introduction to the "Macaca Mania" panel I organized at the 2008 Blog World and New Media Expo over the weekend. The panelists were Jane Hamsher, Jon Henke, Matthew Sheffield and Matthew Yglesias.
At its annual conference last week, the Online News Association hosted a panel titled "Beyond Green." Environmental journalists argued that global warming is "settled science" and that reporters must be ready to combat skeptics.
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Until January, I worked for Atlantic Media, the parent company of both The Atlantic magazine and National Journal Group. It's a top-notch organization owned by David Bradley, one of the most generous and genuinely decent businessmen I've known. The free copies of The Atlantic were one of the best perks of a job with many perks.
So yesterday's report at NewsBusters about The Atlantic being…
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I have no idea what it was on Eyeblast that got Robert of Sarasota, Fla., so worked up, but here's the e-mail he sent me a few days ago:
You are a most disgusting person. How you can look at yourself in the mirror and smile is beyond me. If you were let loose in Alaska the wolves and bears might just put you in your place. Why do people like you exist?
Perhaps if you gathered your tribe together…
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Tennessee Democrat Bob Clement served in Congress from 1988 to 2003. Historians will decide what legacy he achieved during that time, but here's a new video to help them:
Produced by stringer Cole Wakefield, it is the first episode in the "Porkbusters On Patrol" networked journalism series announced by Eyeblast.tv and the bipartisan Porkbusters coalition this summer. Subscribe to our…
Tennessee Democrat Bob Clement served in Congress from 1988 to 2003. This is his empty, pork-barrel legacy in Nashville. ("Porkbusters On Patrol," Episode 1, by Cole Wakefield)
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama last week released an ad that attacks his Republican rival, John McCain, for not using a computer regularly and not knowing how to send e-mail. As it turns out, McCain can use a computer -- but not without pain because of the injuries he received during five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
That mitigating factor made the Obama ad ripe for…
At the Online News Association conference in Washington, famed magazine editor Tina Brown talked about her move online. She is heading a forthcoming "mega-aggregation" site that will compete with The Drudge Report.
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By K. Daniel Glover
WASHINGTON --An "insidious" Internet myth forced Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin to "out" her daughter as a soon-to-be teenage mother, Tina Brown lamented at the Online News Association today.
Brown, who served as editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and who is about to launch on online news aggregation site called The Daily Beast, discussed the pros…
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By K. Daniel Glover
WASHINGTON -- Tina Brown today told a crass joke at the expense of a female journalism student seeking career advice from the famed magazine editor, who is about to launch an online news aggregation site.
The student asked Brown after her keynote address at the Online News Association conference what guidance she could offer to young people seeking work in an industry "…