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Elle Teams Up With a California Magazine in Hunt for New Ads
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the latest bid to make local marketing pay for a national media property, Elle has a new deal with C magazine, the luxury title focused on California, to get advertisers to spend more with special incentives and new custom programs. ...
Chuck Norris, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber Walk Into a Bar ...
Yes, 20% of the top 10 most-tweeted brands this week are dead-celebrity brands. ...
Valencia Festival of Media Names Award Nominees
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Valencia Festival of Media has announced the shortlist of nominees for its second annual awards show to take place on April 20 in Valencia, Spain. The awards show, of which Advertising Age is a sponsor, is part of the three-day festival that kicks off on...
Dobrow Checks the Pulse of 'Saturday Night Live'
It's not that the 2009-2010 iteration of "Saturday Night Live" isn't funny, but what "SNL" has lost is its sense of immediacy. Prior to the viral-videos-gone-wild era, you lived in fear of missing a Moment-With-A-Capital-"M." Now, deliverance is only a few clicks and a 30-second pre-roll ad away. Barring the...
Do Marketers Still Need News Brands?
Ken Doctor writes that publishers must acknowledge a lot of hard truths while they hold out hope for a platform-switch rebound. ...
Taking the Extreme Sports Rush to the Bathroom
Georgia Max Coffee wrapped toilet cubicles in Japanese ski resorts so extreme sports fans could feel like they were still snowboarding even while they were in the bathroom. ...
The Plum Line
* On the Sunday shows, David Axelrod tripled down on the argument that passing health reform will show voters results this year, continuing the White House effort to let skittish House Dems know they’ll have results to campaign on this fall. Here’s Axelrod on NBC: If the Republican Party wants...
* White House dispatches Obama pollster Joel Benenson to try to shoot down yesterday’s widely-discussed Caddell/Schoen prediction of doom for Dems if they pass reform, another sign Obama and Dems believe they’re on the verge of passing reform. (Update: In fairness the Op ed seems less like a sign of...
* Ron Brownstein makes the substantive case as to why the risk of doing nothing on health care may exceed the risk of passing the bill. * Bart Stupak gets kicked off the Merry-Go-Round, says Dem leaders are “ignoring” him and frets that the Stupak Dozen may be...
SEIU Warns Dems: If You Don’t Back Reform, We Won’t Back You
Hardball time. In what seems intended as a shot across the bow of House Dems wavering on health reform, top officials with the labor powerhouse SEIU have bluntly told a Democratic member that they will pull their support for him — and will likely field a challenger against him —...
New DNC Ad Rips GOP As Party Of Vitter And Ensign
Dems to GOP: If you say Rangel and Massa, we’ll say Vitter and Ensign. The Democratic National Committee is going up with a tough new ad on DC cable hitting the GOP as the party of David Vitter and John Ensign — a response to an earlier RNC spot...
Dem Leaders: Bill Must Be Made Law Before Fix
Since yesterday, there’s been some confusion over the claim that the Senate bill has to be signed into law before it can be fixed via reconciliation — which, if true, poses a bit of a hurdle for Dems. GOP leaders have insisted that the parliamentarian informed them this is the...
JoeTrippi.com
FCC Asks America to Test Broadband Speed
The FCC has long battled the nation’s telecom giants, desperately seeking to acquire accurate data of exactly what areas these telecos cover and at what speed. But now the FCC is going straight to the American consumer, asking everyone in America to test their broadband speed. According to Wired: Starting...
Do Social Media Guidelines Really Work?
Do social media policies really work? That’s the question many have asked since Reuters released their new social media guidelines earlier this month. Reuters’ guidelines appear to be fairly strict, telling journalists to avoid exposing bias online and not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter. And Reuters’ isn’t...
The Internet: Nobel Prize Worthy?
The Internet has been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but the nomination is being greeted with mixed responses. Those who support the nomination say the Internet has vastly improved the way we communicate with other nations and cultures, bridging our differences. But according to a recent piece in The...
Facebook to Add Location Sharing
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Facebook will join the likes of FourSquare and Gowalla and add location sharing to its functionality late next month. The service will allow Facebook users to share their location with friends as well as allow outside developers to offer their own location-based...
MySpace Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones surely have their work cut out for them. While social media giants Facebook and Twitter have expanded rapidly (over 111.8 million signed on to Facebook last month while Twitter hit it’s 10 billionth tweet last week), MySpace has been struggling in recent months....
How Dems Can Worry About 1 Less Seat
Last week, I blogged about the growing movement to draft Joe Garcia to run for the seat being vacated by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25). Since then, Joe has gotten a flood of support from the voters and donors who nearly propelled him to a win last cycle. But we have to do...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Will Durst: Kooky Kabuki Terrain.
This health care thing has driven people crazier than Johnny Depp in a Max Fleischer cartoon on acid. Pro or con, your rhetoric better be......
Rex Ryan Undergoes Weight Loss Surgery
NEW YORK — Jets coach Rex Ryan underwent a weight-loss procedure Saturday to help him fight obesity. The husky Ryan had lap-band surgery at NYU Medical Center, and was relaxing at his home in New Jersey on Saturday night, team spokesman Bruce Speight told The Associated Press. ...
Ryan Westmoreland Brain Surgery: Red Sox Prospect To Undergo Treatment
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Boston Red Sox minor league outfielder Ryan Westmoreland will undergo brain surgery after being diagnosed with a cavernous malformation. The Red Sox announced Saturday night that the 19-year-old Westmoreland, one of the team's top prospects, has taken medical leave from minor league camp to seek treatment. ...
Josh Rose: SXSW: Life is but a Stream
It's getting kind of emotional at SXSW. One of the most interesting panels today was Chris Messina, of Google, talking about Activity Streams, Social Objects......
Pacquiao DOMINATES Clottey, Wins Unanimous Decision
ARLINGTON, Texas — Fighting on the star, Manny Pacquiao showed once again why he is such a star. With the biggest fight crowd in the U.S. in 17 years cheering him on at Cowboys Stadium, Pacquiao dominated a strangely passive Joshua Clottey from the opening bell Saturday night to retain his...
Iraq Corruption: 50 New Fraud Investigations Involving Americans In $150 Billion Program
Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions -- involving banks, land deals, loan payments, casinos and even plastic surgery -- made by some of the Americans involved in the nearly $150 billion...
washingtonpost.com - E.J. Dionne Jr. Archive
Smart debt, dumb debt -- there is a difference
Because we never face up to how much we need government to do, there is a pathetic quality to our discussion of big deficits....
A bipartisan push to clean up the Supreme Court's mess
In a city where the phrase "bipartisan initiative" is becoming an oxymoron, the urgency of containing the damage the Supreme Court could do to our electoral system creates an opportunity for a rare convergence of interest and principle....
The Republicans' big lie about reconciliation
For those who feared that Barack Obama did not have any Lyndon Johnson in him, the president's determination to press ahead and get health-care reform done in the face of Republican intransigence came as something of a relief....
The word "partisanship" is typically accompanied by the word "mindless." That's not simply insulting to partisans; it's also untrue....
Under-30 Americans: The next new dealers
Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them?...
The elephant at the health-care summit
This week, particularly the health-care summit President Obama has called for Thursday, will determine the shape of American politics for the next three years....
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Unions Play Hardball on Health Care
Greg Sargent reports that unions are taking "a shot across the bow of House Dems wavering on health reform," threatening to pull support and even field primary opponents for a "no" vote on the Senate bill. Key quote: "This is the most important issue on everyone's plate. We're sending a message...
Glenn Reynolds interviews pollster Scott Rasmussen about his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, and the consent of the governed....
Lawmaker Quits After Hot Tub Confession
Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn (R) announced that "he was resigning from the Utah Legislature, two days after revelations of a nude hot-tubbing incident with a minor 25 years ago and a payment to keep it quiet," the Salt Lake Tribune reports....
Rubio's Lavish Rise to the Top
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) couldn't ask for a better look at his Senate primary challenger's rise through the Republican party ranks.A St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald investigation finds Marco Rubio (R) "was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but...
"He's more powerful than the entire Republican National Committee. He has a better e-mail list, he has better ideas, he's a better communicator and he's more in touch with what people think." -- Pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by the New York Times, on Newt Gingrich....
You Have to be Crazy to Run for President
Peggy Noonan read Game Change and wishes it was made up. But sadly, no one to her (or my) knowledge has come forward to say, "I didn't say that!" or, "That's a lie!" "Not only do staffers turn on candidates in this book, but candidates turn on staffers. At times...
Balloon Juice
Pandering to the gun nuts is going to potentially cost the state of West Virginia 3 million bucks: Speaking of vetoes, Manchin will be put in a quandary over a bill passed Saturday to have a sales tax holiday on firearms in October (HB4251). Offering a tax-free weekend on gun sales potentially...
It is really sad the way Obama has politicized recent SCOTUS decisions: She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court. In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit...
I don’t understand the fascination with Rahm Emanuel, why he’s so evil, why he’s so good, why he’s a genius, why he’s an idiot, why he’s sexual napalm to the DC press corps. He was a decent (but not great) leader of the DCCC, he’s been involved with the...
But he’s moving the Overton window!
Nate Silver hates hippies: In December, I posted ratings for each Democratic Representative based on how they voted on 10 key agenda items in 2009. The idea was to see how each Democrat voted relative to the partisan slant of his district; a Democrat voting for the cap-and-trade bill in a...
Some of the Apollo astronauts are upset about the Obama Administration’s decision to cancel the Moon missions. Here’s Jim Lovell’s overheated take: Personally I think it will have catastrophic consequences in our ability to explore space and the spin-offs we get from space technology[.] And here’s Gene Cernan, the last man to...
From commenter JBerardi: “Almost all scandals, I think, result not from the invention of new evils, but from the imposition of new ethical standards.” – Bill James, The New Historical Baseball Abstract Speaking of people who have written great books about baseball, Michael Lewis’s book on the financial collapse drops in a...
FT.com - China, Politics & foreign policy
China's next leadership succession was settled at a Communist party congress in 2007. The party's senior members decided that in 2012-13, Xi Jinping would take over as head of the party and president while Li Keqiang would become the next premier...
Analysts say Beijing has few choices on where to invest its foreign exchange reserves and does not have the option of wielding purchases as a weapon in bilateral relations...
The accuracy of China's 'mass incidents'
Readers of the international press could be forgiven for thinking that the country is a cauldron of social unrest on the brink of boiling over, writes Will Freeman...
'Terminal man' returns to China
After his success in facing down Shanghai authorities who had barred him from his own country, Feng Zhenghu is savouring one domestic pleasure – the ability to turn off the light when he goes to sleep...
China hits at Obama's Dalai Lama meeting
President Barack Obama finally met the Dalai Lama in the White House, an event set to test the US-China relationship in an already turbulent year...
US policy to China must be consistent
The US should strive for partnership with China in their many areas of common interest but where they disagree, as on human rights and Taiwan, they should state their position frankly and openly...
Under The Influence
Retailer JCPenney will not renew its membership in the National Retail Federation. In a March 10 letter to NRF Chairman Terry Lundgren, JCPenny CEO Myron Ullman said his company will leave the trade group and focus its resources on the Retail Leaders Association (RILA). "Given the gravity of the issues...
This week's advocacy and lobbying stories in National Journal: (subscription) "K Street Paradox:" In this week's special report on lobbying: President Obama's fight against special interests boomerangs as lobbying firms just get richer. "Q & A With Obama's Ethics Gate Keeper:" Norman Eisen, special counsel for ethics and government reform,...
Conservative Group Targets Reid
From this morning's Earlybird: • "The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, has placed a new $250,000 television ad buy targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) over Democrats' procedural maneuvering on the health care bill," Roll Call reports. • "As lawmakers imposed another restriction Thursday on congressional earmarks,...
(Credit: Richard A. Bloom) Updated with U.S. Chamber comment at 12:09 p.m. on March 12. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it's fighting for small businesses, but not all small-business owners appreciate the effort. After the chamber's launched its $4 million ad campaign against the health care bill Tuesday, the...
House Mulls Options On Campaign Finance Reform
House Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman Paul Kanjorski, D-Penn., said at a hearing this morning that we may be on the way to a Constitutional Convention due to repeated Supreme Court decisions scaling back campaign finance law in the name of the First Amendment. Such an event, however, could actually wind...
Patton Boggs Looks To Buy Firm
From this morning's Earlybird: • "Washington's biggest lobbying firm is on the verge of getting even bigger. Patton Boggs LLP, which rang up nearly $40 million in lobbying last year, is in negotiations to purchase the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, according to sources familiar with the talks," the Washington Post reports....
Informed Comment: Global Affairs
We live in age of political extremism. It's not necessarily a reflection of the tough issues of the day; there have been tougher times to be sure, and it's not just bad manners; politicians have probably always been street fighters at heart, despite their grinning photo-ops, and their groomed appearances...
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMUS-China relations have gotten off to a less than roaring start in the Year of the Tiger, but the venom of mutual incrimination can be avoided if both sides engage in some retrospection and put things in an historical perspective.Indeed, the positive achievements of the world's most...
[Cross-posted with "From the Field"]Desmond Travers, one of the four members of the Goldstone Commission, has drawn fire for noting that an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire, initiated in June 2008, was being respected by Hamas, at least until Israel punctured the ceasefire early November 2008.* In an interview in Middle East...
THE BANALITY OF NOT BEING EVIL
By Philip J Cunningham There’s something irremediably banal about Google’s corporate motto. It’s hip, it’s hype and it’s hypocritical. "Don't be evil" is a curiously negative construct; eschewing evil is not necessarily about doing good. In sum, a sophomoric yet shrewd manner of self-presentation that is...
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAMIt's one thing when fear of terror causes people to lose their nerve, quite another when they start losing their minds.The Obama administration appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.It's not clear if it's terrorists, real and imagined, who have got the Democratic establishment...
by Philip J. CunninghamIt’s official. US President Barack Obama, long suspected of being the type of person who wanted to have his cake and eat it too, wine and dine with Wall Street while tossing rhetorical crumbs to the poor, dispossessed and hungry, all the while hobnobbing with the rich...
The American Prospect Articles
A Fresh Take on the Jewish Faith
A new community of American Judaism is embracing religious traditionalism and social liberalism....
Does greater access to data on foreign aid translate into more accountability? TAP talks with a group that advocates for increased transparency about what it could mean....
An education reformer discovers that tests, standards, and other silver bullets are no substitute for hard teaching....
Durbin's Bid to End Sentencing Disparity
The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine is a disgrace. It's time to end it, not mend it....
New York's latest food campaign would impose a tax on the syrup added to soda and sweetened drinks....
American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first....
The Daily PCIJ
Covering automated elections,uncovering campaign finance
On March 6, the PCIJ concluded in Zamboanga City the last of 12 training seminars on Covering Automated Elections and Uncovering Campaign Finance for journalists, citizen bloggers and campus writers across the country. The seminars, with support from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the United States Agency...
Pols flood the airwaves with ads, but do their messages stick?
Political ads, more than just pesos and cents, are at core about putting across credible messages and getting the votes. This is the focus of Part 2 of our latest report on the political ads of the top six candidates for president that in the three months before...
2010 Presidential Elections: A billion-peso TV war
Our latest two-part report reveals that in the last three months before the election campaign period started, six of the 10 candidates for president had racked up advertising values on television, radio and print media worth a whopping P2.1 billion! Minus the discounts and commissions that network executives and PRs say...
Election expense reports: Truth (not) well told
Our latest report reveals the gaps and holes in the “Statement of Electoral Contributions and Expenses” that candidates for president, vice president and senator had filed since 1998. The popular perception is that running an election campaign has the potential of reducing a candidate to penury. Yet none of those who...
The curious case of ARMM and Maguindanao population spikes
Our latest report written by PCIJ Fellow Roel R. Landingin exposes what population experts call “a statistical anomaly” with grave implications on the conduct and results of the May 10, 2010 elections – the inexplicable sharp spike in the population growth rate of the Autonomous Region in...
Implicated Ampatuans still running in 2010 elections
Our latest story, written by senior journalist and Mindanao expert Carolyn Arguillas, details the candidacy of 10 of the 12 Ampatuan clan members who have been implicated as respondents or conspirators in the November 23, 2009 Maguindanao massacre. The report is part of a continuing series of reporting projects...
David Ortez - A Political/Social Thought Blog
Ron Paul Reminds Us that He is Crazy!
In an op-ed titled, “Why I voted against encouraging people to complete Census form,” Congressman Ron Paul of Lake Jackson justifies why he voted “No” on a Congressional resolution intended to encourage participation in the 2010 census. Paul claims that the census “has grown far beyond what the framers of our...
Mo Money, Mo Problems at Metro
Click here to read my Houston Press article! ...
Beware of the Spin from Rick Perry!
As I talk to friends and family about the upcoming Texas election where we have a chance to finally send that damn Aggie in Longhorn land packing … it dawned on me that Bill White will need to approach this race on the aggressive side and make King Perry defend...
Democratic Party Primary Election Results
In what seemed like a blink of an eye and **flash** we have now concluded the March Primary here in Texas. The following is the list of winners on the Democratic ticket who will challenge the Republican nominees this November. Only a handful of races were not decided and those...
March 2010 Texas Democratic Primary Cheat Sheet
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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Texas’ Board of Education has approved a new social studies curriculum with a conservative seal of approval. After three days of debate the board voted to change the curriculum to explicitly present Republican philosophies and conservative leaders in a more positive light. The new curriculum was voted in 10 to five,...
President Barack Obama’s administration has called for an overhaul of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law, mitigating the ridiculous focus on standardized tests with an approach that takes into consideration student attendance and classrooms’ learning climates. —JCL The New York Times: The Obama administration on Saturday called for a...
Internet Fraud Losses Doubled in 2009
From Nigerian “millionaire” plans to “FBI agent” schemes, millions of dollars have been lost to scams on the Internet. Last year saw reported losses from Internet fraud more than double, rising from $264.6 million in 2008 to $559.7 million in 2009. —JCL Reuters: Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in...
Google May Close Virtual Doors in China
Google is “99.9 percent” certain it will shut down its search engine operation in China after the government in Beijing warned the company that it was flouting the country’s censorship laws, which require limited access to content like “Tiananmen Square” and “democracy.” Google’s decision would close a chapter in a...
French voters are turning against the right-wing policies of President Nicolas Sarkozy in what many are calling the “pink tide,” a leftward shift in French politics that is putting Socialists and Greens in many legislative seats around the country. The term pink tide was initially used to describe the increasing power...
Getting a Read on the Middle East
The greatest problem of writing historically about the Middle East is that the story has not ended. The war goes on. And both “sides”—actually, there are rather a lot of sides—produce conflicting narratives....
washingtonpost.com - Howard Kurtz (washingtonpost.com)
Roethlisberger, Massa, Ensign, Woods: Sex, power and sports
Here we go again....
Obamacare: Groping for a solution
We interrupt the great tickle party that is Washington to bring you news that is not likely to produce an outbreak of giggling....
Not since the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho" has there been such a famous shower scene....
Obama and pals push back on staff turmoil
President Obama was just warming up for a stemwinder on health care, calling out the Republicans and the insurance companies, when he made a slight digression....
Now playing: TV's one-man-bands
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel....
In lean times, TV reporters must be jacks of all trades
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel....
The Washington Independent
What’s That Word for People Who Will Do Anything for Money?
David M. Herszenhorn at The New York Times points out a curious thing happening in the midst of the debate over student lending reform: Although the plan to eliminate billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to private lenders originated, by some accounts, with President Bill Clinton, it’s now former Clinton...
Tea Party Signs, Sponsored by the RNC
Alex Pappas reports: The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups — despite widespread disagreement among the conservative, grassroots activists on whether the movement should work to elect candidates within the Republican party or steer clear from it. The items, paid for by the...
Family Research Council: Help Us Kill ObamaCare
Here’s the flip side of Ben Smith’s report today on evangelicals and Tea Parties — direct mail from the social conservative Family Research Council that tees off on health care reform and delivers, by and large, a message that could appeal to anyone in the Tea Party Movement....
A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - After hosting immigration reform advocates at the White House yesterday, President Obama met with Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss plans for comprehensive immigration reform. The two senators have been working together to...
Clinton Losing Patience With Netanyahu
A recap: Vice President Biden flies to Israel this week and gets hit with word that Israel will expand settlements into Arab areas of Jerusalem. It’s widely seen as an insult. This afternoon, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley let it be known that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Prime...
Chamber of Commerce (Again) Hopes to Scale Back Proposed Black Lung Benefits
With black lung disease on the rise in Appalachia, West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd (D) last year took action. As Democratic leaders were piecing together their sweeping health reform proposal, the nine-term Byrd attached language that would expand black lung benefits for coal miners and their families. It hasn’t been well...
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The Back Forty
Repower America Conference Call Monday Night
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Repower America is inviting everyone concerned about global climate change to join in a conference call Monday night, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The purpose is to outline a strategy for passage of a clean energy bill about to be introduced in Congress. If you RSVP...
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson This video is pretty funny. I couldn’t resist. When you get to where the link sends you, just click on “I’m not on Facebook,” then keep your eyes open. Glenn Beck Attacks… It’s sponsored by MoveOn and was sent to me by SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the labor union...
Price Tags on Medical Items? It Could Happen.
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson A Wisconsin Congressmember last month filed a bill that would require providers of health care products and services, including health insurance, to put a price tag on everything they offer. There’s a good reason why Rep. Steve Kagan (D-WI8) wants people to know what they – or...
Stalking the Couch Potato, Part 1
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson I’ve been working with a neuroscientist on a proposal for a book about the societal causes of childhood obesity. The proposal is written, which is why I can be back here, blogging, after a hiatus of several months. Elliott Blass, my writing partner,...
Iraq Vets Group Supports Climate Change Legislation
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Support for a strong climate change bill, coupled with the argument that cutting America’s addiction to oil in half will help us increase our nation’s security and reduce the likelihood of a war against Iran, comes from a quarter that will surprise many: veterans of the war...
Posted by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson [Note from Miryam: I thought you should see this post on Health Affairs Blog by Chris Fleming. If you are a parent or grandparent and what you read here strikes a bell, you could make a huge difference in a child's life by stepping in with...