The last presidential campaign — specifically the GOP primaries — should have shown how little power media “talk jocks like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity” really have, columnist David Brooks writes in today’s New York Times.
Brooks writes that the talk…
Robert Porter of Wildwood — in a letter to the editor published Wednesday on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Opinion Page — requests that we stop using news articles produced by “east coast liberals.” He calls for us to use more…
Tucker Carlson
Citing “very large gaps in news coverage of the Obama administration,” political commentator Tucker Carlson says he’ll launch a right-leaning web site — the dailycaller.com — within weeks.
Michael O’Brien of the Hill’s Blog Briefing Room quotes Carlson:
“We are a general-interest newspaper-format style…
Rush Limbaugh’s challenge to MSNBC to ignore him for a month was answered by the cable network’s Keith Olbermann, who said he’d accept the challenge if Limbaugh went a month without talking about himself.
Limbaugh issued his challenge Tuesday on his radio…
Jeff Jacoby, a columnist for the Boston Globe, says the answer is no.
Political leanings have nothing to do with it, he writes in a column today. The growth of the internet has left the traditional newspaper business model in shambles…
The Pew Research Center’s daily number for March 6 is 80 percent — which it says represents how much of Rush Limbaugh’s regular listening audience is conservative.
Pew summarizes its study from last year:
“With Republicans out of power on both ends of Pennsylvania…
Conservatives are neater and more organized than liberals, a psychology professor at the University of Texas and three colleagues report in an unpublished paper titled “The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives.”
Slate.com’s Bill Bishop reports on Sam Gosling’s study in an…
A couple of readers — Joe L. and EJ Rotert — are still debating that question in a two-week Editors’ Desk posting on another topic.
Excerpts of their exchange: