Yet again… The Sun

VIA: The Daily (Maybe)

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Pulling no punches- Bush and US media

A friend of mine has just emailed me this video from MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann’s. I have heard of him before but never got to watch any of the ’special commment’ section on his show.
Watch this clip on Bush and the Iraq War, it’s absolutely brutal! definitely will keep an eye on his show [...]

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Practice your French

A friend of mine has sent me a link to this new French online magazine called Rue89.
I had a look around and it seems really interesting. Its content is pretty mixed with some good curent affairs analysis from alternative perspectives (don’t worry, it’s not a Indymedia style lefty e-zine). It’s also pretty interactive with the [...]

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Fortune cookie politics

What is it with American politicians making the most absurd arguments without even a blink of an eye? I keep reading this nonsense about Iraq over and over again. McCain did it the other day, yesterday it was Joe Lieberman and of course Bush is done it about a zillion times. Gentlemen, Iran is Shia, [...]

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Transparency web 2.0 style- Spanish chapter

TeleMadrid, the regional public channel of the Spanish capital, is well known for being under the tight grip of the Conservative Regional President Esperanza Aguirre. Accusations of news manipulation in the regional public channel for the benefit of Aguirre are widespread.
However in her last act of manipulation, Aguirre has found herself confronted by the reality [...]

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Tim Russert dies

The interviewer from hell and NBC legend, Tim Russert, has died of a heart attack today. Russert was probably the best American political journalist and certainly the toughest interviewer in American politics. He was the presenter of ‘Meet the Press’.
It’s very sad that at a time of scarce quality journalism we have to suffer a [...]

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Book review: The revolution will not be televised by Joe Trippi

I bought this book ages ago but didn’t get around to read it until two days ago. I read it almost in one go and it’s one of the most optimistic and revitalising political books I’ve read in a long long time.
Trippi was Howard Dean’s campaign manager in 2004 for the Presidency of the [...]

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‘Dispatching’ Brown…to the dogs

It really tires me. My political communication class would do a much better job than Brown’s communication team has done so far in getting the PM out of the wilderness and into game time. If things keep getting this bad Brown is going to take Labour all the way back to its 1983 numbers.
The last [...]

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Obama is Murdoch’s choice

Like he did with Tony Blair in 1997, media mogul Rupert Murdoch is to meet with Barack Obama before taking a final decission on his endorsement in the US Presidential race. However at a WSJ conference in California today he praised the Democratic candidate on his economic and education plans and as being the people’s [...]

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Defending electoral reform in Westminster

In The Independent today there’s an article by Steve Richards on electoral reform in the UK. He argues Gordon Brown should put electoral reform at the top of the agenda for two reasons. Firstly, Labour will benefit from it as things stand today and secondly, it will widen the array of views that will be [...]

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