Posts from ‘May, 2009’

James Fallows talks about Andrew Sullivan and the “ecology of news” on OTM.  Here’s the blurb:
This month saw the launch of a multimillion dollar ad campaign meant to sink President Obama’s as yet unannounced health care plan. James Fallows covered the first round in the fight over health care in 1994. He says the [...]

[Official White House Photo by Pete Souza]
President Barack Obama reacts to seeing speechwriter Cody Keenan outside the Oval Office on May 8, 2009. Keenan dressed up as a pirate for an Oval Office photo shot for use in the President’s speech to the White House Correspondents Association dinner May 9, 2009.
This official White House photograph [...]

Esperanza Spalding started off an evening of performances at the East Room of the White House on May 12, 2009. [Photo by Ozier Muhammad/NYT]

Rachel L. Swarns reports in The Caucus Blog - NYT 051309:
The candles flickered, the bassist strummed and, one by one, the writers and poets seized their moments in front of the [...]

[Source: Google Images/Henry Jenkins]
Steve Daly writes about this conflation of heroes in We’re All Trekkies Now | Print Article | Newsweek.com 050409:
It’s the Spock plot strands that give the new “Trek” its best shot at once again commanding the zeitgeist. Spock’s cool, analytical nature feels more fascinating and topical than ever now that we’ve put [...]

Henry Jenkins writes in Confessions of an Aca/Fan: “Geeking Out” For Democracy (Part Two) 050409:
The Obama campaign was able to create an ongoing relationship with these new voters, connecting across every available media platform. Log onto YouTube and Obama was there in political advertisements, news clips, comedy sketches, and music videos, some created by the [...]