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Sunday Late Night

I’m winding down from a hot weekend here in SoCal, where the mercury reached nearly 100 degrees today and we’ve got another wildfire out of control. Too hot to do much of anything but chill. I’ve rounded up a few links in the news and blogs worth reading and Dizzy Dezzi has her round-up ready [...]

Elizabeth Edwards on the Media

If you haven’t read Elizabeth Edwards OP/ED in the NY Times on the media’s role in this election cycle it’s a must read: Bowling 1, Health Care 0. I highly agree with Edwards’ closing paragraph:
If voters want a vibrant, vigorous press, apparently we will have to demand it. Not by screaming out our windows as [...]

The Expectations Game

If the last dozen states have taught us anything it’s that Obama will get over 90% of the African American vote in North Carolina. Personally, that doesn’t bother me. If there were a similarly viable Hispanic candidate, I’d be pretty darn excited about her or his candidacy. (In fact, there was such a candidate, Bill [...]

The Reality of Campaign Life

Everyone knows this has been a long, difficult primary season. We know we are tired of some of the repetition and constant newsmaking. But have you thought of the impact on both staff and both candidates?
From today’s WaPo:
“After nearly six months on the road, sleeping in hotels, herding an unruly press corps onto buses, and [...]