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The Twitterverse is swarming with A-list actors, best-selling authors, snarky comedians, and bloviating politicians, displaying varying degrees of tweet talent. What could possibly spell trouble for the social network’s future?
via The Latest from VanityFair.com http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/10/twitter-personalities-most-followers
CHARLOTTE — Ad-libbing: It’s what Irish-American pols do best. There was nearly as much riffing in Joe Biden’s speech as there’d been in Bill Clinton’s.
TEXT: That’s the President’s job.
SPEECH: That’s what presidents do, or at least what they’re supposed to do.
TEXT: I just don’t think he understood what saving the automobile industry meant — to all of America
SPEECH: What I don’t understand — what I don’t think he understood — was what saving the automobile industry meant.
The extra ands and repetitions and literalies — folks, literally not figuratively, they work in a setting like this. And Biden’s speech-crafters have figured out how to say odd things without setting off the fact-check monitors. Who were these mystery opponents complaining that “America is in decline?” Has anyone literally said to Biden, “hey, I’m betting against America?” If Clinton tried to talk through an intellectual argument in jess-folks language, Biden started with jess-folks and ended up parked on the ranch house’s lawn.
via Slate Blogs http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/09/06/literally_not_figuratively.html
For the economically challenged news industry, the calculation looks something like this: Seven days of coverage spread over two weeks. Thousands of reporters scrambling for a limited pool of stories. Enormous expenses. Limited viewer, reader and advertising upside.
via Style: Culture, Arts, Ideas & More – The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-media-convention-coverage-is-expensive-but-essential/2012/09/06/daf5cdb4-f849-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html?wprss=rss_style
The speech came, by and large, as a disappointment to political journalists and other campaign junkies. We have heard almost all of it before. The speech was probably aimed at undecided voters, who spend almost no time following politics. They received the paint-by-numbers outline of the election choice.
via A Transformed Obama Is a Fighter, Not a Dreamer — Daily Intel.
@dashb0t: If you were feeling good about America tonight, the VMA re-run starting right now can probably fix that.
@KateNocera: this DNC/RNC side by side video gave me chills. it’s so good: http://t.co/86vfyU6c
@Papapishu: Money money monnnneeeeey http://t.co/lrcm8V3M
Apple Inc. (AAPL) engineers have been working since 2005 to reinvent TV viewing. Designing the gadget may prove easy compared with convincing media and cable companies to loosen their grip on the television industry.
This battle is nothing like Apple’s previous forays into the music and mobile phone spheres, when the maker of iPods and iPhones negotiated with weakened record labels and a fractured wireless industry. Now the stakes are even higher and the competition tougher.
via Apple TV No IPhone as Talks Bog Down With Media Companies – Bloomberg.
Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Bob Woodward’s Book ‘Price of Politics’Sep 5, 2012 8:35 PM EDTHow exactly did the nation’s debt crisis play out behind closed doors? From Obama ‘chomping on Nicorette’ to Biden as the GOP ‘whisperer’ and Ryan’s anger at the president, the highlights of Bob Woodward’s The Price of Politics, out Sept. 11.
via Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Bob Woodward’s Book ‘Price of Politics’ – The Daily Beast.
@aterkel: RT @GStephanopoulos: President Obama will be in the hall tonight to watch Clinton
