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How Bing & Twitter Can Save Journalism

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This commentary was originally posted at CauseCast.org.
If you Google the “demise of journalism,” some 718,000 results will appear detailing the transition of consumers to the Internet, the decline of advertising revenue, the hacking of newsroom editorial staffs, the artificial knowledge of crowd-sourced information, and the collective threat to intellectualism and civic responsibility. Usually fingers are [...]

CauseCast | Dems, GOP in Steep Post-Sotomayor Battle for Latino Voters

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In response to some interesting news items from yesterday, I wrote over at CauseCast about the partisan battle for Latino voters. Who could resist after The Daily Beast wrote the headline: “Newt Gringo?”
“Te gusta los political posturings de Newt Gingrich? The former Speaker of the House and the GOP’s maybe-if-Sarah-Mitt-and-Mike-completely-drop-the-ball 2012 presidential contender is stepping [...]

My “Four Types of Bloggers” Theory on MediaBistro’s FishbowlNY!

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 21, 2009 ⋅ One comment

After last week’s panel I spoke with Amanda Ernst for a bit about my “Four Types of Bloggers” Theory. (For the curious, the four types are: Spot News Aggregators, Personal Historians, Idea Factories and Community Builders.)
We admit that we staged the lighting more like a spooky campfire than a serious interview, but just imagine [...]

CauseCast: BO on ‘Today,’ Chris Brown’s Apology

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Today on CauseCast I reviewed the president’s health care schpeel with Meredith Viera and asked whether Chris Brown’s apology for beating the sh*t out of Rhianna was a necessary farce. Check out the posts and leave comments!

Summer’s State of the Union: SCOTUS, Politico & Bruno Bring the Heat

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A serious question for all those watching the Sonia Sotomayor hearings: Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D’oh! A wise Latina might let us, but we all know how the Republicans feel about them.
On this week’s Wilshire & Washington, we confront bipartisan hackery [...]

DC’s Changetastic Makeover: Myth or Reality?

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I knew back in January traipsing around the nation’s capitol in my stiletto gold heels while my exposed toes froze that Change City would not sustain its hyper-festive jubilee beyond the inaugural hullabaloo. With all my bicoastal coming and going between New York and Los Angeles most of this year, it wasn’t until last week [...]

Not Dancing on Tables … Yet

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ June 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s officially been a month since I became a full-time New Yorker, and I have to confess that the experience has borne an uncanny resemblance to the film, “Coyote Ugly.” (Yes, I just used the term ‘film’ facetiously for dramatic effect and a second time for the sake of alliteration.)
From the time the cab driver [...]

Thanks, Mom!

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ May 6, 2009 ⋅ One comment

As usual, in the midst of my daily battle to compete as a top blogger extraordinaire, I’ve been ignoring most of the logistical details of my never-ending cross-country move. For months since I’ve been bicoastal I’ve had no idea where half my stuff was: in Jacqueline’s Gramercy Park apartment, at my house in Highland Park, [...]