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...London School of Economics. "The European leaders proposing this international regulation are generally conservative, not wild-eyed socialists. Still, any effort to come up with international rules applicable to the U.S. usually raises fears about American businesses finding themselves hog-tied as a result-which gets Joe the Plumber types shouting bloody murder." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...should Joe the Plumber give a shit about Joyce when he’s losing his job? Why should Cindy the Nurse care about Kandinsky when her hours are being carved up like the old man of a “Tell-Tale Heart”? I don’t know right now. But it’s something that I know we have to find out. —Columnist Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...
...media" coverage of Barack Obama are fairly well worn. Among the many complaints, he notes that Obama's associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers didn't get enough press scrutiny during last year's election campaign, while Sarah Palin's clothing and Joe the Plumber's personal life got too much. Because of their fawning over Obama, the "mainstream media"--if the author removed that modifier, this book would be a pamphlet--have left their credibility "in tatters," Goldberg writes. Of course, just saying something doesn't make it so. But that won't matter...
...anymore. Today TV broadcasts are just starting points, raw material to be curated in a collective online canon. During the election, I was immersed in political news and comedy, but I saw only a fraction of this material--interviews, skits, Joe the Plumber encounters--on a television. I saw bits embedded on blogs and on YouTube. I saw them straight up, or edited and surrounded by comments. If I saw the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin on the liberal website Talking Points Memo and you saw it on the conservative Townhall.com did we really see the same program...
...PLUMBER speaks on stimulus. Just fix our pipes already...