Thank you Paul Eckerstrom for showing the world, via Alex Wagner on MSNBC a few minutes ago, that Tucson is not nuts, like much of the rest of Arizona. You can see an earlier MSNBC interview with him, from 2011, on the Tucson Weekly site. Free Baja Arizona! You have done more than Representative Ron […]
Where Do You Get Your News When You Travel?
I was quite shocked when I checked in to the Sheraton Towers Chicago, the conference hotel for #BlogHer13, and was limited to Fox and CNN products for news coverage while there.
Why are Acts of Domestic Terrorism Ignored by National News?
As a person who is associated with progressive political groups and an information junkie intrigued with how we as a people create systems of meaning and belief, I sometimes notice patterns to which other people give little attention. As a progressive who lives in Arizona, I see patterns of extremism all around me, and have […]
Another F Word Day – Friday Finds
Collected thoughts and unfinished masterpieces from the past week or so, that are MUST reading, that probably should have been tweets, and that show the true depths of the disorganized mind. ****** MSNBC: I like NOW with Alex Wagner. Haven’t watched the new cable show they just hyped, but I want to watch The Newsroom […]
MSNBC Is Political, Fox Is Political, News Is Not Political
My husband and I, both televised political and news coverage junkies, disagree about how much coverage to allow into our home, but the one area in which we are in agreement is that MSNBC is the only mainstream news entity that routinely covers progressive analysis of topics. Allow me to re-emphasize that last point, if […]
Women Political Commentators Score! But…
Rachel Maddow gets her own show on MSNBC! I’m reporting solely from what I read in a Commondreams repost of a Washington Post article as I just got home from work and opened my laptop and whooped with joy at seeing a female Rhodes scholar rewarded for her wit and wisdom in political reporting. About […]