Slate video envisions today’s media covering the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing
And yeah, it’s pretty dead-on and hilarious.
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What happens when there are no newspapers?
By Jim Johnson
PoHo contributor and founder of The State of Sunshine blog
Jack Shafer has an excellent piece on Slate.com about the real impact Americans will see when newspapers across the country stop.
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Slate’s Top 20 political video moments of 2008
Not much overlap with my list, which reaches No. 1 in tomorrow’s blog, so here is Slate’s wrap-up of the best of the year in viral political video. (Sorry, but Slate’s embed doesn’t work with our blog software for some reason.)
The Short List — Wed. Feb. 6
The count goes on …
- NBC News has Obama taking the lead.
- Raw Story has Hill up by 80 delegates, and McCain running away with it.
- ABC has Huckabee surging as Romney fades.
- AP has the democratic race as a split decision.
- MSNBC’s first thoughts: This is going to get nasty.
- Slate is desperately trying to figure out who won.
- Time Magazine has five lessons from Super Tuesday.
- Need a copy of the key to ALL Diebold voting machines? Good news: They posted a picture of it on their website.
In other news:
- Tornadoes killed at least 48 people across the south last night.
- The writers strike will continue — at least through this weekend.
- Heath Ledger’s autopsy is in. Cause of death: oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.
- Is Al-Qaeda about to strike?
- Apple updates the iPhone: Let the bitchin’ commence …
(Photo by Idcross.)
