Category: Politics in Media Matters
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A look at BLM (#BlackLivesMatter) via tweetstream
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology looked at nearly 29 million tweets surrounding four recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) events to identify the social media patterns of its activists. They found that the community is unlike many other social movements because of its ability to bond over the course of many months. (via The…
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Republicans’ Hypocrisy Annotated. Law, Logic Seem to Elude CPAC Speakers
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Funeral set for man shot in Waikiki – Mauinews.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Visitor’s Information – The Maui News
The APEC summit in Hawaii was supposed to head off “trouble” like the protests against APEC in Korea and elsewhere, where large-scale protests have dogged the APEC meetings. In Hawaii, “homeless families were moved out of sight and millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on security—including over $700,000 on non-lethal weapons for crowd control,” according…
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Dave Winer says what I believe
Image via Wikipedia If politics has changed, it’s now in the domain of tech, completely. You won’t use the web to raise money to buy television ads. Instead, money raised on the Internet will stay in the Internet, helping to build the communication systems we need not just to get candidates elected, but also to…
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But I’m sure they didn’t do that in the US…
Brown joins a long list of Labour politicians who are known to have been targeted by private investigators working for News International, including the former prime minister Tony Blair and his media adviser Alastair Campbell, the former deputy prime minister John Prescott and his political adviser Joan Hammell, Peter Mandelson as trade secretary, Jack Straw…
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Republicans like the revolving door as F.C.C. to Join Comcast – NYTimes.com
We can try for all the open documents and open gov we want, but until we stop the revolving door where you can be rewarded by corporate interests for your behavior as a bureaucrat, they’ll be rotten apples in midst. Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved a hotly contested merger of Comcast and…
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Midwest getting Bush tactic that helped him “win” in Florida
Voter surpression on the minds of governors in Midwest? It worked in the south, so why not? Where are the reporters covering the efforts to make it harder to vote in Ohio and Wisconsin? Where are the correspondents covering the voter suppression drives that could more than moot the gains the Democrats stand to capture…
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Journalists from Netherlands Refute Wilders’ Claims
A friend of mine (and a journalist) from Holland sent me this. Echoes of some of the irrational speech that is passing for political talk in the US today. First there is the text of an email from some concerned Dutch journalists that cites facts about Holland and its Muslim population, then the text of…
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Bias in Polling: the Cell Phone Challenge
Pew’s latest report (May 2010) notes a couple of important polling issues that arise as many people go “cell only” and pollsters continue to use phone polls. It is more complex and costly to include cell phones in a poll sample. I’ve bolded what I thought would influence how I consider election eve and other…
Barbara K Iverson 