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The Summer of Hate provides a watershed moment for “reasonable Republicans”

Posted on 2009.08.24 by winterSmith 19 comments

I’m not a Republican, but I know many people who are. I have GOP friends, co-workers and family members, and for that matter I used to be a Republican myself. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, to be sure. But it’s true. It’s no secret that I don’t agree with the GOP on much of anything

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Why American media has such a signal-to-noise problem, part 1

Posted on 2009.08.03 by winterSmith 19 comments

Part one of a two-part series. From Cronkite to Couric: the Kingdom of Signal is swallowed by the Empire of Noise The recent death of Walter Cronkite spurred the predictable outpouring of tributes, each reverencing in its own way a man who was the face and voice of journalism in America for a generation or more. The irony of all