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During a Thursday evening panel discussion as part of URI's Journalism Day , Marc Genest saved his biggest salvo for last. Genest, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, spent most of his speaking time excoriating what he called an overwhelming...
Lots of chances to discuss the just-past presidential race. Besides David Gergen at RWU this evening, and a panel tonight at URI, NPR's Mara Liasson is headed our way. National Public Radio’s Mara Liasson will deliver the fifth Darrell West lecture...
It's tough competing with David Gergen, but yours truly will be among the panelists offering a look-back this Thursday at media coverage of the 2008 presidential election. It's part of two events scheduled for Journalism Day at the University...
Kos today takes some justifiable pride in the accuracy of his own presidential forecast : R2K Actual Presidential vote: 51-46 52.6-46.1 Congressional vote: D+9 D+8.38 As much as people complained that R2K was too Obama-friendly, turned out it wasn't...
As someone who has been a high-level aide to both Republican and Democratic presidents, David Gergen should have lively insights on election 2008 and the future of the two major parties. Mr. Gergen will visit [Roger Williams] University as part of its...
In the aftermath of Obama's victory on Tuesday, let's consider some of the dramatic changes in recent American life. A little more than 30 years ago, the following photo epitomized the violence, hostility, and bitter sense of racial division that...
As we know , there's nothing like a watershed election to renew interest in dead-tree newspapers. So take a gander at the alt-weekly covers assembled by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
Whether Sarah Palin will emerge as a future contender or remain just a part of the 2008 campaign will take some time to shake out. For now, an unflattering campaign post-mortem in Newsweek is getting a lot of mileage. Dan Kennedy : If nothing else, I...
Rhode Island, with its mighty four electoral votes, is typically on the margins of presidential politics. Yet with our own New Hampshire-style presidential primary this year, and with scores of Rhode Islanders assisting Obama's campaign in various...
From an editorial in this week's Phoenix: Democrat Barack Obama's decisive win over Republican John McCain in Tuesday's election is truly a triumph of hope. For some voters, McCain was no doubt more horrifying than Obama was appealing. But...
How to momentarily revive the flagging newspaper industry? Have a presidential election for the ages! From the NYT's City Room blog (the same thing is playing out in many other cities ): Updated, 2:50 p.m. | If you were an early bird who likes news...
Ray Rickman , the book-lover and former state rep, sent along the following thoughts, which touch on the special importance of this election for African-Americans: Events of world-historic significance may be understood through the application of intellectual...
John McCain gave a very classy speech last night, IMHO, and Barack Obama touched on the sense of a fresh start that fueled his campaign. It was simultaneously touching and a bit weird after months of sharp back and forth during a hard-fought campaign...
WJAR-TV's Jim Taricani made a memorable comment on this post , so I thought I'd break it out here for wider consideration. For this generation, some thoughts from an aging boomer. I remember vividly standing on a tarmac at RAF Lankenheath Air...
Shortly before 9:30 pm last night, a huge roar went up among the Democratic crowd packing the 17th floor ballroom at the Providence Biltmore . Obama had been projected as the winner of Ohio -- a state that Republicans have almost always had to win to...
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