Media
Evaluating Bias in the Media
Social media is a relatively new form of distribution and collaboration. It allows for one user to rapidly share information with many others in the blink of an eye. Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and others have all helped grow the interest and use of social media in recent years. Now we have our own form of […]
Saul Williams Sells More Than Shitty Tee Shirts
Politics and music have had and continue to positively affect one another. Musical culture has been the unifying base of many movements that have created political change. Conversely, politics has created the motivation for many musical movements. In addition, as race plays a central role in the current Presidential campaigns Political Grind is happy to […]
Walking the Road that Buckley Built
Conservative writer and PGN contributor Michael Johns argues that modern conservatism owes much of its success to William F. Buckley, Jr., who built conservatism as an alternative to the Great Society’s vast expansion of federal governmental control and built conservatism as the most consequential political and intellectual movement of modern times.
Senior Indian Leadership to Headline IISS-Citi India Global Forum
Senior government officials and international experts to gather for policy discussions on ‘India as a Rising Great Power: Challenges and Opportunities’
The IISS-Citi India Global Forum (IGF) will convene from 18 to 20 April 2008 in New Delhi, bringing together top Indian leadership with senior government officials and international experts. During the course of the Forum, […]
Ferraro Censoring Forgotten in Rev. Wright Hullabaloo
The recent commentary on the racial politics of the 2008 campaign by former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democrat nominee for Vice President of the United States, is just the latest example of a party paying for the sins of several decades of foolhardy pandering to identity politics. Unfortunately for Ms. Ferraro, the long-running spat […]
Stony Brook University Political Survey
Hi Everyone,
A graduate student at Stony Brook University in New York needs some help. Here is the info, Survey takes about 10 minutes. Link to google doc with last years results at the bottom of this post.
Thanks! -PG
Hello,
I need your help.
I am a graduate student in Political Science at Stony Brook University.
I am working on […]
Cleavage vs. Climate
What if the sun rose one brilliant morning and never set?
Just stayed up in the sky, blazing brilliant, melting the polar ice cap into blue nothingness, erasing the coastlines into a Dali-esque reconfiguration of nature’s win over man?
Would it dawn on the media about that time to begin questioning the presidential candidates about global warming […]
Why McCain would Win Over Obama - An Election Framework
I wrote this very hastily since my time has been severely limited with my studies and work. While it lacks eloquence (or even gramatical correctness), I believe that the points I attempt to make are valid and deserve consideration on the Obama momentum
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Now that John McCain has clearly claimed the front runner title […]
The Press’s Love Affair with Obama
Like it or not, the Press and media have biases towards certain candidates. We can see it in the headlines and in the tone of their coverage and commentary. But should they have biases? In 1958, Edward R. Murrow recognized that news had become a commodity and only acceptable when saleable. […]
With High Confidence; Intel We Can Finally Believe
Caution is the word of the day, especially when it comes to standing confidently on either side of the NIE report, excepting the president of course. This at least is the slant of opinions at The NY Times; good news is bad news, and bad is good. Why is it that the same […]
Screenwriters Strike: Opportunity for an Intellectual Revival
Washington—The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor was founded in 1869, four years after the conclusion of the War Between the States. The founding fathers of what could be the most significant labor movement in the history of the world was started by a group of Philadelphia tailors who sought better working […]
The Daily Kos - The Voice of Progressive Reason??
I submitted my previous article (with some major rewrites to clear up my often times drab and confusing garble) to my diary in the Daily Kos. I figured, what the hay, it’s a progressive website and I’ve always thought that people to my political left were far more rational and reasoning than people to the […]
Journalism 101: All the News That’s Fit to Print
From Reuters via the Washington Post:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh raised $2.1 million for children of fallen Marines and law enforcement officers on Friday by auctioning off a letter from Senate Democrats denouncing him for a remark about “phony soldiers.”
An important story meriting prominent placement?
The Post did not think so; they chose to […]
On Democrats, Surveillance and Being Flaccid
We are often bothered by politicians “flip-flops,” think Kerry. Then we have those that are likely not flip flops, but the necessity in the necessary revealing the opposite of your public positions or pronouncements (denouncement is fitting as well.).
At the first column, top position sets “Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers,” with the summary […]
