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Remains of the Day, 6/2/08


UPDATE: Late additional link that I’m putting at the top because it’s so well-done.  Shannon is an awesome writer among many other things but you must read this post where she takes political supporters to task and asks them to just get real.

1. Jim Trakas is honored.

2. Geraldine Ferraro – I wouldn’t have read this if it wasn’t for this post at Feministing.com but I feel the way commenter “JessicaNOW” feels. There’s a few graphs in that column that I’m just skipping over but the part about the research – folks, that’s already been done for the past and will be done and now and in the future. The Caucus has a good piece on exactly that. Move along.

3. Wired takes on the DNC blogger credentialing issue.

4. Ad Age – you don’t get it. You just do not get it. None of that ever was and still is not where the bloggers really are. But go ahead, keep cooking up the images while we keep blogging and learning and being active. What. Ever.

5. Honey, news fatigue does not discriminate:

A key finding was that participants yearned for quality and in-depth reporting but had difficulty immediately accessing such content because they were bombarded by facts and updates in headlines and snippets of news.

The study also found that participants were unable to give full attention to the news because they were almost always simultaneously engaged in other activities, such as reading e-mail. That represents a shift from previous consumption models in which people sat down to watch the evening news or read the morning paper.

“Our observations and analysis identified that consumers’ news diets are out of balance due to the over-consumption of facts and headlines,” said Robbie Blinkoff, co-founder and head anthropologist at Baltimore, Md.-based Context-Based Research Group.

To combat that, the authors recommended that news producers develop easier ways for readers to discover in-depth content and to avoid repetitious updates of breaking news.

Well gee – who might those news producers be now? Hmmm. Who who who? Could they be…Satan?

Oy. Sigh. How many times will the MSM have to hear this stuff before it really, truly, totally tips and changes?

6. I absolutely cheered when Howard Dean was ranting about the sexism in the campaigns when he was on This Week yesterday. Whether he’s rehearsed it or not, I don’t really care.

7. Taking on the Big Boys wins a Gold Medal. Congrats to Ellen Bravo.

Oh – and I am a bad JAP. I had to finish taking care of my kids and didn’t arrive at the event for the ladies until after they’d all left the eating locale and decided to see an early movie time, that was sold out when I got there. So no dinner, no movie, no nothing. I’m telling you – I have always been terrible at being a JAP.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:43 pm June 2nd, 2008 in Blogging, Politics, Remains of the Day 

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3 Responses to “Remains of the Day, 6/2/08”

  1. 1 Jeff Hess on June 3rd, 2008 7:13 am

    Shalom Jill,

    I read Dumenco’s piece and I have to say I think he’s right. When money enters the equation it all changes.

    Those of us on the long tail see a different world from those on the short list.

    B’shalom,

    Jeff

  2. 2 Have Coffee Will Write » Blog Archive » MY COMMENTS… on June 3rd, 2008 7:20 am

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  3. 3 Shannon Okey on June 3rd, 2008 9:37 am

    Thanks, Jill. I agree with you on the Feministing commenter — particularly her “hard truths we would be unwise to run away from” statement. To me, a lot of this election has boiled down to that.

    Those who are trying to get the media (and the general populace) to think a little harder about how we treat women in general, let alone in public life, are suddenly personae non grata.

    I’ve always loved Howard Dean, and in reading the article you reference, I remembered why all over again: “But there have been major networks that have featured numerous outrageous comments that if the words were reversed and they were about race, the people would have been fired.” Go, Howard!

    So while many voters — not just women — have been saying the same thing Dean did, they’ve been accused of every thoughtcrime imaginable by the other side’s supporters. Or called angry rattlesnakes…as I quoted in my post. I guess it’s ok to say it if you’re an older white guy in a leadership position, though. (Eye roll)

    I’m (generally) ok with Obama. It’s not like he’s going to roll back Roe or stock the Supreme Court with Scalias. What I don’t like about him is that his supporters frequently don’t seem to know anything about his actual platform or what he intends to do. It’s this great big nebulous cloud of “well, he’s inspiring” and that’s it, end of story, no need to think on it further. And the media has encouraged this: it’s an easier story to sell than in-depth policy coverage.

    I’m sure the comeback from their camp is that it’s not about his supporters, it’s about him. Well, no. Supporters end up in positions of power in any administration.

    If there’s a positive side to any of this, I think it’s that it’s cut the number of political sites I read significantly. After some of the childishly vicious nonsense I’ve read on DailyKos this election cycle, I can’t say I much want to check in there at all. I self-edit an awful lot of what I say online, but some of the commenters over there have got no internal filter whatsoever.

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