Word: mainstreaming
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...Valley estate on the city's southwestern fringe. The area was settled before basic services - sewerage, hospitals, child care, transport and leisure facilities - were established. The self-proclaimed champion of the urban sprawl was Labor leader Whitlam, federal member for Werriwa (1952-78). He put suburban issues into the mainstream of politics. "I was always interested in why Green Valley didn't have the sort of facilities that other parts of Sydney took for granted," Latham told biographer Craig McGregor. "What is it that causes advantage and disadvantage? Why is it that our family didn't own a house...
...Open Australia (1999), Tanner detailed a way forward for social democratic parties in a globalizing world. He pressed early for changes to education and communications policies that are now mainstream. He drew attention to the Murray-Darling river system and predicted that "Australians may soon be referring to the water issue in the same way we now talk about the environment or taxation." He pushed hard, and successfully, to reform Labor's internal structure. He highlighted growing social alienation and suggested approaches to community-building. When Latham spouted Third Way ideas, Tanner dissed them as empty pragmatism: "It is mere...
From my summer working at the Republican National Convention (RNC), I learned, among many other valuable truths, that Republicans sweat the details. From balloons that fell at the right time to a round stage that drove a news cycle, the organizers of the RNC spoke to mainstream America with expertise that was envied by their Democratic counterparts, crafting every detail of the massive production to effectively communicate the desired message to average Americans. Ask these average Americans what comes to mind when they hear the words “flip-flop” and the answer is likely...
Having caught the scent of a juicy story from the MSM (mainstream media) to bite into, the bloggers were waiting to pounce like a pack of hounds behind the butcher shop. On Sept. 7, the day before the CBS broadcast, left-leaning blog talkingpointsmemo.com announced that 60 Minutes was to air "documents that shed light on Bush's guard service or lack thereof." The following afternoon, bloggers at freerepublic.com a conservative website, began anticipating the coverage with comments such as, "CBS should have to register as a Democrat [campaign organization]." Minutes into the broadcast, another Free Republic blogger (known...
WELL, LAST WEEK, THE INSURRECTIONARY PAJAMA people--dubbed "pajamahadeen" by some Web nuts--successfully scaled one more citadel of the mainstream media, CBS News. One of the biggest, baddest media stars, Dan Rather, is now clinging, white-knuckled, to his job. Not bad for a bunch of slackers in their nightclothes...