Mar 22, 2006
Post Critics Seeing Red
The liberal blogosphere is atwitter over the recent debut of Red America, a blog unabashedly aimed at educating us decadent coastal types on the finer points of mid-American wisdom. The general point of view among the technorati is that the blog, authored by Ben Domenech, is a response to criticism the Post has received over a perceived liberal bias, specifically in the blog written by Post journalist Dan Froomkin. Froomkin’s White House Briefing focuses on…
Jan 13, 2005
Drinking Your Politics
“We aren’t looking to cry in our beers. No one is moving to Canada,” says Cory Smith, who helped found the D.C. chapter of Drinking Liberally, an “informal, inclusive weekly Democratic drinking club” that has chapters across the nation. While they drink, they talk politics and hope to build the network of people they feel is needed to fortify the health and refuel the spirit of the Democratic Party, which you may have heard has…
Jan 03, 2005
Mediabistro Looks for D.C. Blogger
Oh my. Looky here! We’ve found the Holy Grail for the metropolitan blogging world: a parttime blogging position that will be PAID. Not with cigarettes, booze or minimal beatings — but with actual money! And you don’t even have to talk about politics. Read now; you can thank us later. Elizabeth Spiers, the newly appointed head honcho over at mediabistro.com (a site dedicated to resources for everything, anything, and anyone media-related) is looking for a…
Oct 08, 2004
Friday Night Fights
Round two of Bush vs. Kerry begins tonight at 9 p.m. on most major networks. The town hall style meeting will be moderated by ABC’s Charlie Gibson, who will allow 15 to 20 hand-picked participants to ask questions. Unlike the last one, we’re hoping that this time audience members will be allowed to laugh, sigh, cheer, or just you know, breathe. The recent release of the Iraqi arms report and today’s Department of Labor jobs…