Liberal Talk Radio

A disclaimer: Although I don’t live in Seattle, and BATP is of course a Seattle-based production, I love Seattle and have visited many times. Some of my best friends live in Seattle! Which is to say, I don’t necessarily understand all of the ins and outs of the demise of the Post-Intelligencer beyond what I [...]

In this week’s podcast, we talk about the end of the Seattle P-I, which will become an internet-only publication as of next week. Last week, a prof at Columbia’s journalism school, the guy who teaches the core course, “Reporting and Writing 1,” took some heat in the blogs for making this comment about internet journalism: [...]

Transit funding picks up speed, AIG blackmails the U.S. taxpayer, and finally, the Seattle P-I goes online. Links Mentioned: The 538.com survey results … The details on the AIG contracts … the last day for the printed P-I … the future of that newspaper.

Now that there’s a lot of revisionist history being peddled, I thought it would be interesting to go back in time a bit and see what our attitude was toward subprime mortgages back in the heat of the housing bubble. I took a look at some NYTimes articles from 2005. Here’s one that popped out [...]

Rush reasserts himself, the recovery act gets underway, and finally, our internatonal news roundup. Links Mentioned: Recovery.gov’s logo … Hillary’s snafus.

Today on one of the Sunday talk shows, Sen. Richard Shelby, a Republican on the banking committee, floated the idea of letting Citigroup fail, chips fall where they may. Kevin Drum responds beautifully: All I can say is: Richard Shelby has way bigger balls than I do. Call me a wuss if you must, but [...]

Obama’s big speech, a couple of cabinet appointments, and finally, the war in Iraq winds down.