Daily Archives: July 8, 2003

And on we go

Not much new to report that Byron hasn’t already covered. The House map passed as expected, and now the battle is joined in the Senate. A commenter on Byron’s latest Polstate posting notes that in addition to Bill Ratliff and … Continue reading Continue reading

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Ham radio

Having written about the potential of a newfangled form of mass communication, I feel compelled to cite this article about an old-fashioned form, the ham radio. I love this quote: “The Internet is cool and all, but the last two … Continue reading Continue reading

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Blogs and radio

O-Dub points to this column by Ron Brownstein which suggests that blogs are (or are about to be) to liberals as talk radio is to conservatives. It’s difficult to compare the audience of talk radio and the Internet. The largest … Continue reading Continue reading

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Savage Weiner followup

Here’s a bizarre twist in the firing of Savage Mikey Weiner – the call that precipitated his finally-too-much-for-MSNBC outburst was a prank call by a troll for a competing radio talk show. Here’s what the caller was saying when he … Continue reading Continue reading

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