The Schrug

… you must read “Out of Print” by Eric Alterman in The New Yorker. It’s a great look at the past, present, and future of American newspapers and journalism in general.

Note: please post any new comments to the new SeverinWatch blog: http://severinwatch.com/2008/03/03/ignorant-cowardly-liar-jay-severin-vs-a-hole-david/ I think I’ve discovered a new mental illness. It’s called Severinitis. Persons suffering from this disease are under the delusion that they can somehow get Jay Severin to soften his position or rhetoric on anything by presenting a rational and factual argument. They [...]

Why am I spending any of my time on this guy? I have no idea. But I can’t help it. Here’s his latest offense. Jay, along with at least one other radio talk show host, likes to refer to the junior senator from Illinois as “Barack Hussein Obama.” Why does he do this? Because, he [...]

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Although I disagree with John McCain on several policy issues, and although I’m not convinced he’s really the squeaky clean straight talker he claims to be, I do find his willingness to challenge his supporters refreshing. Too bad Jay Severin has vowed he will never vote for McCain. I’d love to hear McCain’s reactions to [...]

Note: please post any new comments to the new SeverinWatch blog: http://severinwatch.com/2008/02/26/what-jay-severin-thinks-about-his-critics/ As I mentioned in the last post, I was on the radio yesterday with Jay Severin (the talk show host formerly known as Jimmy Severino). I guess I got under his skin, because this is what he said to his listeners after the [...]

Note: Please post any new comments to the new SeverinWatch blog: http://severinwatch.com/2008/02/25/what-jay-severin-thinks-about-the-poor/. Jay Severin is Boston’s local version of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, etc. How anyone takes him seriously, I don’t know. One of my guilty pleasures is listening to his show and, when I’m able to get through, berating him on the [...]

The pundits on CNN (including my former babysitter) are pretty good when they talk about the complexities of the presidential campaign. They talk about proportional voting, congressional districts, the difference between regular delegates and superdelegates, and so forth. But the visuals tell a completely different story. The largest graphics on the set are the national [...]

Dear political interviewers: Can you please explain to me exactly what you’re trying to do during this primary season? Because it sure seems to me that you have little interest in helping your viewers make an informed, intelligent decision in the voting booth. Instead, it seems that your chief concern is to ensure that you [...]

As I saw the headline about today’s arguments regarding lethal injection, it occurred to me that this year’s campaign has been uncharacteristically quiet about the judicial branch. Where are all the questions about activist judges, litmus tests, strict constructionists, and so on? Just because none of the current SCOTUS justices are currently in intensive care [...]