Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... on the same issue I tried to illuminate in Atomization Overcome: who sets the "sphere of legitimate debate?"
Dave Winer chose Sarah Palin as a source of inspiration in our latest Rebooting the News podcast. (I dissented.) His post: http://www.scripting.com/stories...
I'm not bothered by it all. If anything I think people have been too kind to her, especially within her own party. She chose the path of culture war. She sullied her own introduction to the American people with it. She arrived pre-resentful. She's unfit for office. And an alien to the concept of accountability. Palin is the biggest insult hurled at the body politic since Joseph McCarthy, and no, I am not making any idle comparisons to McCarthy, just periodizing Palin.
- Jay Rosen
Palin to Time magazine: "Now, there's been some frustration with some in the media not fully reporting what's been going on, so this may come as a shock to some Alaskans. We have sat down with reporters, showed them proof of the frivolity, the wastefulness — you know, millions of dollars this is costing our state to fight frivolous charges. And countless, countless hours from my staff,...
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- Jay Rosen
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal on how helpful she has been to reporters: "Governor Palin tried hunkering down. She ignored offers of help from outside and kept media outlets at a distance. "Palin had become so suspicious of the media that she rejected hundreds of requests by even friendly reporters to interview her. Her press aides say that before considering interviews, she...
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- Jay Rosen
I don't think it's correct to say she lies. She just doesn't know what truth is. Truth is whatever comes to her mind to justify herself at the moment. She's a sham politician.
- Jay Rosen
Jay: I'm not going to pile on her. At this point it only helps her anyway. I bet she's going into media to compete with Rush Limbaugh. She'll find a willing audience and do quite well in that role. It won't be good for discourse for the reasons you've laid out, but she will make tons of money and she will have her fans.
- Robert Scoble
the fact the she has any political standing with an increasing following frightens me. But then again, Americans enjoy watching train wrecks.
- Bob Blunk
She can be the Sally Jesse Raphael for out of touch old white rednecks there's millions of those especially in Texas
- John Sullivan
I agree, Robert; the only possible landing points for her are Fox or talk radio; she can be rich as the female Rush. And I agree she will do quite well at that. Meanwhile, we need a reality-based opposition party. McCain in his cowardice delayed the confrontation within the Republican party between those who think observables do have to be part of politics, and another element for whom a propaganda state with sham politicians like Palin is fine. That is still going on and so Palin matters.
- Jay Rosen
Has anyone else noticed how much anger ambitious women in politics foment? People from the right seem to really hate Hillary Clinton and people from the left seem to truly hate Palin. Although G W Bush was an exception, it doesn't seem like male politicians illicit such a visceral reaction. Hopefully, those two are just exceptionally polarizing and it's not a symptom of some unconscious sexism. I guess Geraldine Ferraro was pretty innocuous.
- Chip Ramsey
Palin could skip getting a fox show and just sell out speaking venues, pack out stadiums around the country, pay off her legal fees and build a war chest along with momentum for 2012.
- Christian Burns
According to @latimesnystrom, the NYT social media editor, @NYT_JenPreston, wanted to do some deep listening. So she's been off Twitter.
In 2005 the vast majority of participants at the American Society of Newspaper Editors had no idea who Craig Newmark was http://www.timporter.com/firstdr...
This story continues to befuddle me. (to clarify: what is she THINKING??)
- Ken Kennedy
Scott Rosenberg's history of blogging is out this week. It's the best book ever written on that subject. Here's more http://www.sayeverything.com/reviews...
I've been having great fun of late getting my academic library of choice to order books you suggest. Sometimes I love being a poor graduate student.
- Josette Torres
Nothing on Twitter for a month from the New York Times social media editor, @NYT_JenPreston. Not sure what that means.
@aliceinthewater That mentality cuts to the core of where Cleveland is right now. It's not just their paper it's the whole town.
- Jay Rosen
That video sums up why I haven't written to my blog in so long. Not specifically what they're saying in the video, but the general topics of discussion. We've reached the point in these conversations, I think, where there are no longer fence sitters, only people drastically and vehemently behind the times. The stress of change is causing them to lash out in ridiculous ways. It's like...
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- Zac Echola
If years from now, Zac, there are no more curmudgeons and people barely remember the newspaper reactionaries, that video will bring it all back. It signifies. For me its the bookend to what started with "Twilight of the curmudgeon class" in 2007 http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone... But this is more like 3 am and they're lost and in despair.
- Jay Rosen
The video of my interview at Personal Democracy Forum with Dan Froomkin is up http://blip.tv/file/2333197 (It's about the White House press corps.)
Glenn Greenwald asks if the NPR ombud is intellectually lacking OR a "hard-core Cheneyite." http://www.salon.com/opinion... He thinks both. I say neither.
One of the things I tried to do in this interview is de-hype-ify the things I believe in. Can't think of a better word. It means take the hype out and keep all the excitement. Did it work? You tell me. http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archive... "I wouldn't say we know how to do it well yet. Certainly there is no template. Best practices are just beginning to emerge..."
...along with loads of limitations and unsolved problems in putting the pro-am concept into practice. Progress comes slowly."
- Jay Rosen
"I sometimes tweet about politics, and I can feel the annoyance of some who follow me when I do." --From my Q & A in Gelf http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archive...