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20 August 2010
Have Democrats Lost The Narrative?
By Zach Friend & Spencer Critchley, at Huffington Post: Time after predictable time, Republicans roll out a new set of bogus talking points. And time after time, Democrats argue the facts — and lose. That’s got to change. Here’s how the script goes: Republican: I’d like to begin by making an outrageous assertion. It’s obviously [...]
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1 August 2010
Obama’s Credit Gap – Why the President’s Victories Go Unnoticed
By Zach Friend & Spencer Critchley, at Huffington Post: We knew this was coming. The media have finally noticed the gap between Barack Obama’s extraordinary achievements — health care reform, financial reform and preventing a depression, to name a very few — and his seeming inability to win credit for them. “Why can’t Obama get [...]
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19 August 2007
Follow the Risk: Amateur Journalism & Democracy
Adapted from a reply on John Jarvis’ Buzz Machine blog: The Internet and cheap digital tools allow crowd-sourcing of news by amateurs, not just because the technology makes production and distribution fast, easy and cheap, but also because it diffuses risk through the crowd. So it makes any individual’s share of the risk small enough [...]