Norm Coleman was compared — unfavorably, as I read it — to Richard Nixon in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Reporter Matt Bai writes that when Nixon foresaw a trouncing in 1960 he “exited quickly to begin plotting…
New media is replacing old media at a pace that threatens traditional journalistic values that America relies on, Tom Brokaw told a gathering of Minnesota journalists Thursday night. “We’re constantly behind the curve,” he said of the news industry’s sluggishness to adjust. “It needs to happen quickly.” Blogging in the current “Thomas Paine environment” is not journalism, he said. “Most of the ‘journalism’ on the Internet is aggregation.”
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is a guy it’s better not to have known — even if for only one flash-lit moment. Blago-smears have stained President-elect Barack Obama, U.S. Reps. Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Rahm Emanuel, and even…
Nate Silver may have built his amazing site fivethirtyeight on the basis of his facility with the seemingly infinite number of baseball statistics, but I have an idea for a political campaign stats site — called simply “five”…
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