Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters From An American" is always good, but this past week has seemed even better than usual. For those of you who eschew social media and the major newspapers, or any of us, each day's post is all you need to know...
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A lot of the fun went out of Twitter when Howard Hughes bought it, and the damage to the site seems to be accelerating this week. The value of Twitter,.
This post is not about Herschel Walker, but it is also about Herschel Walker. In his most recent post, Paul quotes a lengthy passage from John Ganz. In it, Ganz.
Like Emptywheel, I don’t want to spend a lot of time on Maggie Haberman’s journalism, nor the New York Times’s handling of it. But Dan Drezner got into the mix yesterday with a bunch of things that I disagree with. Marcy handles some of those....
In my new gig as a blogger for the International Observatory of Human Rights, I talk about the ways journalists, human rights workers, and humanitarians are turning to animation to.
Smithsonian magazine revisits the political satire of 1960's children's show Rocky and Bullwinkle. I've been doing some research into children's media these days (as you can tell by my previous.
Think about the photographs and videos you remember from 9/11. Now think about which ones you weren't supposed to see. Is the taboo fading? A little over a year ago,...
Children's media prepares kids and adults for emergencies and big changes. Last week I posted about being a Hurricane Andrew kid and some professional tips for caring for kids during.
There was a lot of nervous chatter when gmail was introduced about the google ads that would run in the sidebars of people's emails. Though the anxiety was allayed --.
Count me in as a cynic along with Tom Tomorrow regarding this optimistic statement by E.J. Dionne in his review of Al Gore's new book out today. "…the larger change is that the very process Gore describes — of propaganda taken as fact, of slogans...
It's an old trope. In 1590's Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, the woman over whom the Trojan Wars were fought: Was this the face that launch'd.
In the midst of a defense of the "Wanker of the Day" feature, Ezra makes such a nice summary of the problem:The feature actually has a substantive point. Among other.