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Amanda Congdon, the former co-producer and host of Rocketboom, a popular video blog, left the site this week after a dispute with producer-director Andrew Baron. The news of Congdon's departure - which she announced, in Star Jones-like fashion, in her own vlog - has set the blogosphere abuzz. Now Rocketboom fans are watching the first video blog from her replacement, former MTV Europe News VJ Joanne Colan. TIME's Catherine Sharick talked with Congdon about her feud and her future...
...Tuesday, there was a post on Rocketboom.com announcing some troubles with producing their first video since you left. And there was this comment from Andrew Baron: "If you ever looked to the archives, you may have noticed that there is one episode that has always been missing: the first episode. There is a reason why." What was wrong with the first episode...
...gutbucket populists, and most of the other Democratic candidates have touches of populism in their pitches. In Tennessee, for example, moderate Democrat Harold Ford Jr. has embraced the right-wing House Republican immigration plan in his Senate campaign. "I don't think we ran an ad where [Republican beer baron] Pete Coors wasn't seen wearing a tuxedo," says Mandy Grunwald, who advised Colorado's successful Democratic Senate candidate Ken Salazar in 2004. "It's gotten to the point where every campaign is a populist campaign, and the strongest populist argument we have is the Republicans' fiscal irresponsibility back...
...comparison, McKinley had been everything a robber baron could hope for in a President. He consulted with Wall Street on economic policy, kept tariffs high--they protected American industry but meant higher prices for consumers--and never moved to curb the growth of trusts, the huge enterprises that gathered together smaller companies to form near monopolies. Oil, steel, rubber, copper--one after another, the major sectors of the U.S. economy were becoming dominated by behemoths like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, which marketed 84% of all the petroleum products in the U.S. As large companies gobbled up smaller ones...
Whether MacFarlane’s speech will resemble the show’s content remains to be seen. After what some considered a vulgar Class Day speech by Sacha Baron Cohen—known by the stage name Ali G.—in 2004, concern about the content of Class Day speeches rose...