Here Peggy Noonan makes two assertions about the presidential campaign that have me thinking aloud:
1) “This campaign, this beautiful golden thing with two admirable men at the top and two admirable vice presidential candidates, is going to turn dark.”
2) “It is starting to look to me like a nation-defining election.”
She says it will turn dark, [...]
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Noonan: “This campaign is going to turn dark”
Posted in Citizen-Driven Govt, Election, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization, War of Ideas on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
New Media Presence and the Local Church (Part 3)
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, Media Democratization, tagged Christianity, gospel, new media on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In my first and second posts on new media presence, I was responding to Jacob Vanhorn’s questions at a pretty basic level. Now I’d like to focus the idea of leadership training, which he called out specifically.
I advocate a strong emphasis on training not only pastors, but also members who are called to the marketplace. [...]
New Media Presence and the Local Church (Part 2)
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization, tagged Christianity, Communication, gospel, new media on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We are continuing our exploration of pastor Jacob Vanhorn’s great questions on new media and the idea of “presence.” I’d like to isolate one-way vs. two-way communication approaches to gain presence. New media is all about two-way, though a remnant of one-way still holds sway in many circles, especially those where marketing budgets are [...]
Tracking Citizen-Driven Government: Obama, Hewitt, and the Needle in the Rezko Haystack
Posted in Citizen-Driven Govt, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The power of citizen-driven government, powered by the blogosphere, is starting to emerge in the Obama-Rezko case. Finding the “needle in the haystack” is a multi-purpose, multi-function process that is best addressed in a distributed way, and the evidence is suggesting that mainstream media are less able to provide this sort of political coverage [...]
Obama, New Media, and the Call to Citizen-Driven Frontline Leadership
Posted in Communication, Election, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the most encouraging signs for the progress of American Democracy can be seen in this post by Hugh Hewitt today. It is an example of grassroots communication across the blogosphere to dig up the details of Barack Obama’s real estate dealings with Tony Rezko. The point is not what will happen [...]
Conservative Talk: Take it from the Top
Posted in Media Democratization, War of Ideas, culture on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
From the horse’s mouth on what values motivate conservative talk radio, from Rush Limbaugh at the top of talk radio (copied from Hugh Hewitt):
Time Magazine: What is it that the mainstream media don’t understand about your role and the role of conservative talk radio in general?
Rush Limbaugh: I don’t think they understand why I do [...]
What Hangs in the Balance on the Left
Posted in Election, Media Democratization, War of Ideas, culture on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
From Hugh Hewitt on what hangs in the balance on the Dem side, should Obama win:
The Democrats are and remain a party of bosses –union bosses, interest group bosses like the folks running NOW and Emily’s List, and even the netroots’ bosses like Kos. An Obama nomination would be a shattering event for all of [...]
Echoing rather than informing
Posted in Communication, Media Democratization, Technology, Terrorism on February 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Much more than a tribute to Daniel Pearl, the journalist murdered in Pakistan six years ago, this article offers profound commentary on journalism today and unscrupulous media’s complicity in fomenting terrorism—particular television:
[Media] democratization has [also] led to vulgarization. Competition has forced news channels to echo, rather than inform, viewers’ sentiments–to reinformce, rather than examine, long-held [...]
Fred Thompson & Frontline Communication Leadership
Posted in Communication, Election, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization, Technology on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
More signs that The Medium is the Political Massage, from Fred Thompson, courtesy of Dean Barnett at Hugh Hewitt’s site:
Whether or not the Internet can elect any particular candidate in any particular race, it’s clear that all of you and our many friends across the blogosphere and the Web are part of a true [...]
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