Liberal Talk Radio

Let’s be clear here. When I said it was important to support the Post-Intelligencer as it adapts to technology, that did not mean you could go and blog the weather. The weird thing about weather is that there’s a pretty simple non-technological way to determine it: look out the window. And if that doesn’t suffice, [...]

Clearly the President should lay off the quips: President Obama’s historic appearance on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” was accompanied by a foot-in-the-mouth quip about the Special Olympics he later regretted. Talking about his dismal bowling skills, Obama said he’d been practicing and had gotten his score up to 129. “Oh, no, that’s very [...]

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: [...]

President Obama owed Huffington Post writer Sam Stein one. Last night, he paid him back: It was a bookend moment. President Obama on Monday evening became the 10th American president to call on Helen Thomas at a White House news conference. And he was the first to call on Sam Stein, a reporter for The [...]

A Haiku . . . Meaning lost on me! But for some battleground states McCain limericks? Or . . . Pretentious poems, Nugatory responses; Your Times op-ed page! *Don’t ask me . . .

There were like literally two million men on the street and you pick this guy to interview? Astonishing: Fans here had waited 25 years for a championship parade down Broad Street. The Phillies gave them one Friday, and so many fans showed up that they nearly shut down the city. . . . The parade [...]

Check out how much more converage McCain has received so far in September. “Liberal media”, my a**. [Thanks to listener Curt for the link.]

Did Nagourney really have to use his middle name? Seems a tiny bit provocative, even if they always do that: Barack Hussein Obama, a freshman senator who defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics, was nominated by his party on Wednesday to be the [...]

Old way to ressurect your career — demean yourself on a scripted reality show. New way to ressurect your career — cubism: Can Martha Stewart take a pie in the face — even one she baked herself? Fine Living Network is about to find out. On Sept. 16, Fine Living will unveil a new original [...]