Where Have All The Issues Gone?
A recent Pew center report helps make a case against the type of media interventionism Noam described last week. It notes the quantity of media coverage, positive and negative, that major candidates for party nominations received during this election cycle. Pew found that READ MORE >>
Post-debate, Clinton Picks Up Endorsement, Ire
AFSCME Pushes One More Lady [Steven Greenhouse, The Caucus (NYT)]: "Gaining one of the biggest endorsements that organized labor has to offer, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is to receive the endorsement at 1:30 p.m. today of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a union official said today." More on AFSCME below. READ MORE >>
Hrc Joins Anti-mukasey Chorus
When in Rome... [ Paul Kiel, TalkingPointsMemo]: "With presidential primary politics, things move faster. Now the number of senators who have unequivocally opposed Mukasey's nomination is four." Romney's Contract with NH [Mark Ambinder, The Atlantic]: READ MORE >>
Cheney Stricken with Staph
"I will miss him," said Bush. READ MORE >>
Listen Up!
Mychal Bell, one of six black students jailed last year in Jena, Louisiana for allegedly beating a white classmate, was discharged from prison almost two weeks ago. His release comes in the thick of renewed discussion about race relations in the U.S. prompted by the 20,000-person strong protest in Jena last month. Bell, who has become the face of the "Jena Six," kissed the sky outside the county prison before he headed home for the first time since December. Beside him was the Reverend Al Sharpton, as easy before the press microphones as Bell seemed dazed. READ MORE >>
Listen Up!
Mychal Bell, one of six black students jailed last year in Jena, Louisiana for allegedly beating a white classmate, was discharged from prison almost two weeks ago. His release comes in the thick of renewed discussion about race relations in the U.S. prompted by the 20,000-person strong protest in Jena last month. Bell, who has become the face of the "Jena Six," kissed the sky outside the county prison before he headed home for the first time since December. Beside him was the Reverend Al Sharpton, as easy before the press microphones as Bell seemed dazed. READ MORE >>
