Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025
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MAGA media mishigas
MAGA media mishigas
MAGA media mishigas
Media Bits and Bytes – March 4, 2025
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How to use Substack, and more media need-to-know
Anvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland Marxism
Jacobin
Printed out of a cattle barn in Missouri, Anvil published some of the biggest leftist writers of the 1930s, including Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. Its popular vision for multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent.
Media Bits and Bytes – February 18, 2025
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Media Bits and Bytes – October 29, 2024
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Down to the wire
Crime Is Down. Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?
Barn Raiser
False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.
books
The Problems With Polls
The New York Review of Books
Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.
The Polling Imperilment
The American Prospect
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives? "When we refer to “political junkies,” polls are pretty much the junk."
The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates. A Decade After “The Case for Reparations,” He Is Ready To Take On Israel, Palestine, and the American Media.
New York Magazine
Ta-Nehisi Coates's writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. "I realized how similar what I was seeing was to the world my parents and grandparents were born into.”
Media Bits and Bytes – September 3, 2024
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