Maegan Carberry

New FOX debates on YouTube

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:43:05 +0000

My team has updated my YouTube page with recent appearances.

Check them out here!

Mike Allen on @WilshWash!

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:40:19 +0000

In a recent Wilshire & Washington, Politico’s Mike Allen (author of the must-read daily Playbook e-mail alert!) talks with Ted, Kristin and I about the role ebooks like his new “The Right Strikes Back” will play in the 2012 election cycle.

Listen to the podcast on Blog Talk Radio here.

The STOCK Act

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:37:39 +0000

In a recent Wilshire & Washington The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle talks with Ted, Kristin and I about whether members of Congress who have access to sensitive information should be precluded from investing in the stock market.

Listen to “Insider Trading in Congress” on Blog Talk Radio here.

SOPA: The Showdown

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:35:01 +0000

The SOPA debate is getting hotter and hotter, with the White House this week appearing to support the techies. In a recent Wilshire & Washington, Politico’s Jen Martinez talks with Ted, Kristin and I about the implications of the SOPA legislation.

Listen on Blog Talk Radio here.

Digital Platforms for ’12

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:32:26 +0000

In 2008, Blue State Digital was the bee’s knees. In ’12, new platforms have emerged to compete and build on the innovation of the last presidential election cycle.

See “2012 Election: 3 Digital Platforms Poised to Change the Conversation” on Mashable.

QR Codes in ’12

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:30:08 +0000

I put on my brainstorming cap and talked with media strategist George Alafoginis about how QR code technology could be utilized by campaigns in the 2012 election.

Check out “5 Ways QR Codes Could Shake Up the 2012 Election” on Mashable.

Reflections on 9/11

Maegan Carberry — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:26:24 +0000

I got the chance to write about a unique experience I had, reuniting with former Daily Bruin Editor-in-Chief Tim Kudo and Managing Editor Mike Falcone in Washington DC last spring. We all worked at the UCLA paper together on 9/11, and having gone our separate ways it was fitting that the three of us were together the week Osama bin Laden was killed.

See “The Impossible Editorial: Why There Are Still No Words for 9/11″ on the Huffington Post.

Power of the Moderate

Maegan Carberry — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:37:54 +0000

Many of today’s politicians label themselves “moderate,” but the fruitless debt ceiling debates, the far-right Republican presidential field, and Obama’s inability to succeed with moderates and independents brings into question the legitimacy of the term moderate in today’s partisan political culture. Do moderates wield any power or influence in Washington? Are people discounting everything politicians say because of this polarization? Who is really driving the national discussion today?

Compromise may be the name of the game in Washington, but if anything has been resolved in the past few weeks of unproductive, theatrical debt ceiling debates, it’s that politicians don’t understand the meaning of the word compromise. Government is at the extremes, with leading voices on the far left and the far right. This increasing polarization has hindered any progress on raising the debt ceiling and avoiding the first default in the history of the United States.

On this week’s Wilshire & Washington, Ted, Maegan and Kristen are joined by Jonathan Miller, a founding leader of the group No Labels, which encourages people to put their party labels aside and put what’s best for the nation first. In the midst of a budget blame game in Washington, where leaders seem interested only in producing solutions that will get them reelected rather than solving the grave problems the nation faces, Ted, Maegan, Kristen and Jonathan tackle questions about the power of moderates in Washington.

Join the conversation and check out this week’s show here.

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Power of Palin

Maegan Carberry — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:19:41 +0000

Sarah Palin’s rise to political stardom has been anything but smooth. Between controversies like “Troopergate” and the mainstream media stoking rumors whether she is the biological mother of her youngest son, her political career has been ridden with scandal and controversy. And though beehive wigs and moose heads may have outsold Clinton and Lewinsky masks in the weeks leading up to Halloween, Palin’s popularity came with a price. Now, a documentary opened last Friday, “The Undefeated,” promises to readjust the Palin narrative.

On this week’s Wilshire & Washington, co-hosts Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry and guest host Matt Lewis, a Daily Caller senior contributor and editor of a new Palin book “Quotable Rogue” discuss the film and the impact it may have on the Palin narrative. Ted also speaks with “The Undefeated” director Steve Bannon, who hopes the film will make viewers question the narrative the mainstream media have crafted about Palin.

The film may not inspire a sudden change of heart in liberals who are not so fond of Palin, but it’s release right as the GOP 2012 primary field is shaping up brings Palin back into the spotlight. After the rumor mill had started to quiet over a possible 2012 Palin run, a Newsweek cover and other press about “The Undefeated” has only increased speculation and pushed Palin back into the spotlight.

Will the documentary entice independents to give Palin a chance? Does it signal interest in a 2012 presidential run? Are there any scenarios that predict Palin taking office in January of 2013? Find out what Ted, Maegan and Matt had to say this week on Wilshire & Washington.

–Maeve Coyle

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The Ratings Game

Maegan Carberry — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:16:43 +0000

Is there a formula for good political TV?

Co-hosts Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry and Kristen Soltis take on this question and address the future of political TV on this week’s Wilshire & Washington. In the wake of Eliot Spitzer’s failed CNN show, they question what it takes for political TV to survive the ratings game week after week. As it turns out, networks can’t pair a liberal, sex scandalized former politician with a conservative columnist and expect the resulting fireworks to keep a show afloat.

The most successful cable news shows to date include those led by Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough. Though Maddow’s incendiary political talk may never win her a Miss Congeniality title, the intelligent analysis model brings in viewers week after week and seems to have become more popular. Though these shows have enjoyed success over the years, the cable news audience is largely comprised of older viewers. Research shows that Millennials overwhelmingly prefer the web as their primary news source. Younger people are shying away from traditional cable news networks in favor of social media and other online news sources, bringing into question the future of cable news networks.

With the evolution of the Internet as a major news source came trusted political web celebrities such as Eric Erikson and Lee Stranahan. The presence of these online personalities marks a transition from the popularity of cable news pundits to online pundits, perhaps a preview of what is to come.

Could cable news networks begin modeling programs after ESPN’s firework-driven talk shows? Are popular pundits like Keith Olbermann meeting the needs of today’s increasingly diverse audiences? Tune into this week’s show to find out what Ted, Maegan and Kristen have to say.

–Maeve Coyle

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