…In fact, they did the exact opposite when the Republican administration does the exact same thing that is now at the center of the Obama scandal involving the Associated Press—that is, seizing phone records of reporters. (Please note: The issue here isn’t whether they are right or wrong. What…

Me on Chinese news show World Insight, their 60 Minutes +. The host is is the proclaimed Soledad O’Brien of China—and I’ve met her. Very cool, doesn’t let Chinese government push her around. Nice to have audience of 35 Million. Not nice—getting up at 7am on a Sunday morning.

Story closes out the hour at arounf 43 minutes in.

CAC

Me examining Scott Pelley’s speech at Quinnipiac University on TV news fails. Mea Culpa? Inside view on how the sausage is made…or genuflecting to be one with his predecessors, Saint Cronkite and Saint Murrow?

You decide…

Wonderful & Amazing on one level. Travesty on another.

As Hollywood and Broadway are pretty much financed by the same people, and our tastes are measured by the least common denominator dumbass’s, is it any wonder they “ran out of ideas?” There are plenty of ideas. Just few safe brands for investors. I guess my friend, for whose spirit I give a voice, Mr. Newby, isn’t a safe brand.

-CAC

pasylree:

#safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped. 

(via demetrialynia)

Anderson Cooper & Grumpy Cat on Anderson Live

One of many new nails in the already mouldering coffin of broadcast journalism…

(via alonewiththewayitwas)

The crucible of 1968, post RFK and MLK’s murder, Vietnam, oppression—and no mainstream US big media outlet’s given it any true coverage besides NPR. Not even “news sites” and contentious (pretentious) blogs…

timekiller-s:

So why do politicians seem convinced that the American people want austerity? A fascinating new working paper published this week by two political science graduate students may offer an answer: Politicians tend to vastly overestimate just how conservative their constituents really are. The paper, co-authored by Christopher Skovron of the University of Michigan and David Broockman of the University of California Berkeley, finds that conservative politicians in particular are terrible at gauging the political views of their constituents. For example, they tend to underestimate support for policies like universal health care and same-sex marriage by as much as 20 percentage points. Liberal politicians underestimate support for those policies, too, but not by nearly as much.

The authors report this especially stunning distillation of their findings: “Nearly half of sitting conservative officeholders appear to believe that they represent a district that is more conservative on these issues than the most conservative legislative district in the entire country.”

Read more …

Republicans on the commission wrote their own report…yet neither they or the Democrats wanted to let anyone see primary source materials.