One of the impacts of the Occupy movement has been a shifting of the political dialogue and discourse in this country - much needed, and much appreciated. This change is illustrated in the following graphs from Think Progress, which I found interesting:
During the last week of July, economic discussion on cable news looked like this:

In [...] Read more »

From the BBC:
The split between Fatah and Hamas occurred when violence erupted a year after Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006. Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
Again with this. Seriously, this is annoying. Hamas won the elections; they didn’t seize control of anything. It is Fatah that illegally seized control of the [...] Read more »

I think that the current crisis the media is undergoing is terrible for democracy. The loss of financial viability for the media establishment means that lots of news simply won’t be covered, because in many places, there’s no one else to cover it. The fact that their loss of viability is partially their own fault [...] Read more »

An interesting quote from his book, “The Assault on Reason”
When I first ran for Congress in 1976, I never took a poll during the entire campaign. Eight years later, however, when I ran statewide for the U.S. Senate, I did take polls and like most statewide candidates relied more heavily on electronic advertising to deliver [...] Read more »

The future of the newspaper business model may be very different. Read more »

And the state conspiracy to keep it quiet. Read more »

I found this list of reasons why newspapers are unlikely to innovate and therefore be able to face the challenges of new media in the next century truly fascinating. It reminds me a lot of the institutional inertia and inability to innovate that I’ve seen elsewhere firsthand in the progressive world, and I think this [...] Read more »

Or $10, or whatever you want. No joke. Read more »