Who's ready for tea?

Again, I try to separate my work from my extracurriculars as much as possible, but I thought I'd share an article I put some degree of effort into. Whatever your own views of the Tea Party may be, it's easy to understand why many adherents get defensive when it comes to their coverage in the media. As with many subjects that become fodder for the big, bad media machine, things get simplified for the masses and, through that process, various factions and issues get conflated and come to be identified as one and the same. I tried, at very least, to be fair.

Photo credit: Richard Holden.

An elephant by the Sea is waiting patiently

I will not, as a general rule, link to my own articles very often on this blog. But it's an interesting story about a 65-foot-tall elephant, and my first A1 package for The Press, so I thought it was worth sharing.

Photo credit: Anthony Smedile/The Press of Atlantic City.

Reach into your pockets...

Although his guerrilla tactics make him the antithesis of a competent, objective journalist, Michael Moore tends to get a pass from liberals because he's a mouthpiece for the "right" side of most arguments. Sure, he harasses aging, sickly movie stars. And, yes, he picks some of the most ridiculous examples to illustrate his points. But, the War in Iraq was wrong. And guns do kill. And so on.

I can't say I'm eagerly awaiting this New Film by Michael Moore, the teaser for which just showed up on Yahoo Movies, but there's something to be said for his blunt force rhetoric. After dealing with the absurdity of having PR spokesmen deliver prepared comments full of ill-conceived talking points (on behalf of so-and-so senator and such-and-such company), I can understand and almost admire his firebrand approach to reporting.

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