Submitting Op-Eds

Some of you have asked for the contact info for newspaper op-ed pages. I have found a handy collection from Fairleigh Dickinson University. It does, however, contain a misspelling of the LA Times guy (Goldberg, not Goldber). For information specific to LAT, click here.

In any case, you should doublecheck with a newspaper’s own site before submitting anything.

Here are various other web pages with op-ed submission information:

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Sacramento Bee
• Boston Globe

There are some good writing tips here and here.

Campaign Coverage: Tone and the Future

Campaign Tone: A study of 2008

Talk Show Politics in 1992. Ross Perot:



Gore v. Perot in 1993

Comedy News

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Moment of Zen - Tom Daschle's Old Car

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Economic Crisis

Local Media Conference

If you're going to be here over Spring Break (or if you're coming back early and will be spending the last weekend in Southern California), there is a local media conference happening on Saturday March 21, 2009 at Occidental College.

Local Media for Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit

How happy are you with your local news? How are the issues you care about being covered?

If you are concerned that our democracy and your community are being underserved by the state of today's media, then you should join us for this informative half-day summit.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA

11:00am to 5:15pm, with reception to follow

Nonprofit Newspapers, Twitter, and Ann Coulter

The dying San Francisco Chronicle may become America's largest nonprofit newspaper, reports Gawker.  Also, who needs polls when we have twitter?  And speaking of debates, this time it's the talking heads' turn to spar.  

Obama's mark in history

NYT article, Making Obama's Marks, provides further background on Obama's logo including the intent of the design:


The White House guidelines for each logo were very clear. “It was explicitly stated that the ARRA logo not look ‘governmental,’ ” Juras said. “We were asked to create a ‘visible sign of progress’ in a contemporary way while referencing energy, education and health care.


“The sooner it becomes a historical artifact, the better.”

Dogs and Debates

Media Training:




Meet the Press (yesterday)

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Soundbites and Photo Ops


Watch CBS Videos Online




Fala (start at 7:30)




Checkers


1960 Debate



1980 Debate



1984 Debate: Reagan Stumbles



1984 Debate: Reagan Comes Back




1988 Quayle-Bentsen



1988 Dukakis



1992 Town Hall





Campaign Tone

Meet the Press (yesterday)

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

The Famous Ad

An awful lot of times in the book they mention the ad that media didn't really verify or provide questioning of during the 2004 election---the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attack ad against John Kerry. Here are a couple of them.