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January 15, 2010 11:03AM
The Media Consortium's Links
by Lindsay Beyerstein, MediaWire blogger
Because if it bleeds, it leads... Sarah van Schagen rates the environmental impact of feminine hygiene products for Grist.
In all seriousness, this has been a very exciting week in healthcare news. The Bush administration is racing to take away as many… Read full post »
Botching the Bailout
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium MediaWire Blogger
The Bush administration is squandering hundreds of billions of dollars on incompetence, again.
In a House Domestic Policy Subcommittee hearing on Friday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, took Interim Assistant Treasury Secretary for Fianancial Stabi… Read full post »
Envisioning Obama's Healthcare Agenda
By Lindsay Beyerstein
The Media Consortium
Obama's healthcare agenda has been the subject of much discussion in progressive media circles this week.
We know that healthcare will be one of the top priorities for the Obama administration. The candidate put it third in
… Read full post »by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire blogger
As Barack Obama readies himself to lead the United States through what appears to be a scathing recession, he faces a choice between feeding the political sphere's Wall Street addiction and investing in economic progress. Two key former Clinton cabinet offi… Read full post »
Yes We Can (Be Healthy): Obama's Healthcare Agenda
By Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC MediaWire Blogger.
Before a cheering crowd in Chicago, Barack Obama thanked his supporters, his campaign staffers, his running mate, and his family for his historic victory.
I hope he also sends a nice note to Sarah Palin. He couldn't have done it without her.… Read full post »
Electing The New Economy
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium MediaWire blogger
Welcome to The Media Consortium's Economy MediaWire project! Check this space every Tuesday for a discussion of the best economic coverage available on the information superhighway.
This Tuesday, of course, is no ordinary Tuesday, but the day of… Read full post »
Your Streets, Your Stories: What Live From Main Street Found
I've been wondering how I and other women can together turn our national narrative around to one of peaceful cooperation, economic creativity and healing our environment so we can thrive. ... I think so many of us are tired of living in fear, tired of having our creative hopes marginalized, tired… Read full post »
Toil and Trouble (McCain Newsladder)
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This week finds our war hero, on Old Hallow's Eve, having finished yet another very difficult stretch of his presidential campaign, as it draws to
… Read full post »Rollin' With the Hate Talk Express
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"We've got them just where we want them." With each bit of bad news for his presidential campaign, that's the refrain one hears from John McCain. This week brought so much… Read full post »
With less than three weeks to go in the run-up to the presidential election, the McCain campaign, with help from the Republican National Committee, continued to keep its focus on attempts to discredit the Democratic contender, Sen. Barack Obama, more than on the policy goals of G.O.P. standard-bearer… Read full post »
McCain Undone By Affect And Temperament
Special Debate Edition
In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punches, say the commentators, ultimately lost the debate. Despite the invocation of a terrorist, it was a plumber who may have been McCain's undoing. Sal… Read full post »
Cranking Up the Slime Machine
Just days before the second face-to-face, nationally televised meeting of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain came a torrent of accusations and innuendo against Obama, the Democrat, by McCain, the Republican, and his GOP surrogates. Accusations that had months earlier failed to make… Read full post »
Special Debate Edition
In a forum on a college stage in Nashville, Tenn., Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain faced off for a second time before the television cameras, fielding questions on the economy, energy and foreign policy from an audience selected largely for its members' self-description… Read full post »
Palinpalooza A Welcome Diversion For McCain
The hard times continue for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, who this week pulled up his stakes in Michigan, a state his campaign once thought worth contesting.
In the progressive cyberspace, we find McCain ever-so-slightly better off than the week began, on account of the fact t… Read full post »
The Debate: Nobody Wins Big
Taking a glance at the liveblogging and instant analysis by progressive media outlets of the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., one thing stands out: none of our bloggers saw a knockout victory overall, though both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama each individually scored points on spe… Read full post »
Joan Walsh
Kerry Lauerman
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