Patrick Hynes
Blogs. The very word elicits tension. Or so it seemed at the recent Politics Online Conference 2005, put on last week by the Institute for Democracy & the Internet at the George Washington University. A breakout session titled “Tracking the…
I’ve seen the media misbehave in my time. Indeed, in just the last six months I watched Rathergate and Easongate expose the Old Media as a deceptive dinosaur in drastic need of reform. And speaking of reform, the media’s coverage…
The talking heads’ leitmotif of the moment is the admonition that Republicans should not “misunderestimate” newly crowned DNC Chairman Howard Dean. “Say what you want about the former governor of Vermont, but there really is nobody on the liberal landscape…
Last week I covered the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a credentialed blogger. I had access to some pretty big movers and shakers inside the vast right-wing conspiracy. But I forwent confabbing with them in favor of trolling the…
WASHINGTON — Everyone remembers the CBS forged memo scandal. The apex brand in news magazines (yes, I know it was 60 Minutes II, but still) was brought down by the blogosphere. But there was another New Media coup shortly before…
John Kerry recently returned from an extended tour of the Middle East and Europe. He tried some of his old material on the road, bashing the Bush administration’s foreign policy and criticizing America’s effort in the war in Iraq, as…
On Tuesday Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of the Daily Kos, the most trafficked blog on the web, attacked me personally and erroneously for having written a column in the Union Leader (Manchester, NH) in which I defended New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary….
WASHINGTON — On October 13, 2004, Senator Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) gave his staff the rest of the month off, locked up his office, and hunkered down back in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, so convinced was he that terrorists would…
Both the Golden Globes and the Broadcast Film Critics passed over The Passion of The Christ for any major nominations this year. The American Film Institute made no mention of The Passion in its 2004 best films of the year…
Twenty years after the original debuted, a new crop of British pop stars has re-recorded “Sir” Bob Geldof’s 1984 hit “Do They Know It’s Christmas” and the pro-Africa relief song once again sits atop the British charts. The news surrounding…
