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Can't Talk And Listen
Eschaton — Since I left the convention last night, seatless, I had opportunity to watch the 3 cable networks cover the convention. It was quite shocking just how little of the speeches they covered. Really what is the point of spending all of that money to send the "talent" to the convention so they can talk over the speeches when they could do that just as well from the studio. It'd be nice if they at least read the speeches they didn't cover.

Mainstream media trying to deceive female voters (and male voters who support women)
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... bullshit story about filing deadlines.  If the public knew more about this case, they’d revolt.  If they knew that McCain refused to support the bill named after Ledbetter that made it harder to deny women equality with bullshit like this, many people would see McCain for the hard right winger he is, who openly refuses to support something as basic as equal pay for equal work, which is as popular as women’s suffrage.  But it gets worse. Let me just quote Media Matters. ...

Links of the moment
The Sideshow — ... that political reporting doesn't have the virtues of sports reporting because sports reporters at least tell you what happened, and now Media Matters comes up with the perfect real-life example of Batocchio's illustration of a Green Bay Packers' game if it were covered the way the Villagers cover politics: "O'Donnell asked why not let McCaskill give a "red meat" speech at the DNC -- McCaskill did, but MSNBC didn't cover. (I note that McCaskill engaged in a bit of wishful thinking, though: "John McCain is running for four more years of the same old politics and ...