Become British in three minutes
Ben P over at MyDD has posted a primer on U.K. electoral politics that pretty much covers it all in just over 2,000 words. Read it, adopt a Monty Pythony accent, and you too can pass yourself off as a British wonk. Until someone asks you about the Monster Raving Loony...Clear-eyed hindsight
Smoking bans tend to stick to a pattern in their media coverage. Bars and restaurants kick up a storm with dire predictions of economic disaster. They offer a series of “compromises” that generally amount to creating a “no pissing” section of...Promises Made. Promises Broken.
This just in from our friends at the HEU: ‚ÄúI expect British Columbians to hold us accountable for these promises.‚Äù –Gordon Campbell at an April 23, 2001 election rally in Tsawwassen, BC There‚Äôs an election on May 17, 2005 and the B.C. Liberals will be...Makes you rethink that whole “rock the vote” thing.
Feeling happy? Cheerful? Optimistic? Then clearly you haven’t read the Knight Foundation’s First Amendment study. University of Connecticut researchers interviewed over 100,000 high school students, and found that only half of them believed newspapers...Writing under the influence
You hear about media conspiracies, but boy, you never really expect to see one. We’re now up to three conservative journalists and columnists who wrote their pieces while on George Bush’s payroll — an arrangement they failed to disclose to their...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
