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Do Media Outlets Control the Election Outcome?
I had to rip this one off from the front page of E-Notes in its entirety. He probably posted it after my little anxiety email I slipped in his mailbox yesterday evening. This analysis of news media...
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Tonight’s the Night
The final vote on health care reform will take place tonight. All the procedural voting is done and it appears that the House Democrats have their minimum votes to pass the bill with the sounding of...
View ArticleWest Virginia
This morning, “Good Morning America” brought in Diane Sawyer for an update on the explosion inside the Upper Big Branch mine owned by the Richmond, VA-based Massey Energy company. Twenty five people...
View ArticleEclectique Citizen: The President’s Weekly
Transcript available here. This week the President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast in lieu of a trip to Australia and Indonesia, to check on the lack of progress of BP’s next move on...
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21st Century News Bites
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum There are two things that happen when a show goes off the air. One is you quit and the other is somebody from the network knocks on your door and says,...
View ArticleDoh?! That race thing again.
Today, I read a post on TPM suggesting that the Pigford Settlement could’ve been a second target for right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart and his like in addition to the NAACP (for their criticism of...
View ArticlePoll Vaulting Over the Noise with Nate Silver of Five-Thirty-Eight
Nate Silver became the most trusted voice in statistics in the 2008 elections via his blog Five-Thirty-Eight which applied baseball stat numbers crunching to polls to craft a big picure of where the...
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The Questions that Remain
Boston Globe front page via the NewseumThe days after the Boston Marathan bombing, I felt lifeless everywhere except my legs. I buried myself in work, but my thoughts were locked on wanting to know Who...
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Dickensian Times
Charles Dickens wanted to change hearts and minds about the plight of the poor in Victorian London. But it wasn’t originally a narrative message he was planning to write. Even Dickens changed course on...
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“Concussion” Brother-to-Brother: an Eclectique Interview
Note: This post has been updated Once again the fact-checking debate is on. This time it’s Concussion featuring Will Smith as the Nigerian-born pathologist Bennett Omalu who diagnosed the repetitive...
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