Kathy On Politics and Media

From 2004-2009, I wrote about U.S. politics for About.com. In 2006, I set up an account at Newsvine, where I cross-posted About.com content and also wrote some original material. When I left About, I started writing at TheModerateVoice. Most of these links are to TMV articles; some have been cross-posted there from WiredPen. However, some analysis — including media criticism — lives on Storify and/or Posterous; those resources are also linked here. Finally, there is analysis and commentary at ThisIsNotASpill.org and IWillOptOut.org.

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2013

1. GoDaddy: Poster Child for Silicon Valley Sexism (Storify), 2 February 2013

2012

1. Stewart and O’Reilly @ #Rumble2012 (Storify), 6 October 2012
2. On This Day In History: The Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 26 September 2012
3. Seattle Times launches social media campaign around marriage equality referendum, 20 September 2012
4. Memo to politicians: off-the-record is dead and buried, 17 September 2012
5. We’ve not come a long way, baby; Republicans willfully ignore science in opposing morning-after contraception, 16 September 2012
6. A post-9/11 accounting that you probably won’t read or hear in mainstream news, 11 September 2012
7. Twitter Reveals an Ugly Underbelly of Misogyny, 6 September 2012
8. The debt story that the media seem to willfully ignore, 4 September 2012
9. GOP and Its Hard Right Turn on Women’s Issues, 29 August 2012
10. Six Things You May Be Surprised To Learn About Paul Ryan, 11 August 2012
11. Pew: Democrats and Independents Support Gay Marriage, 1 August 2012
12. “Joe Paterno was a liar” , 13 July 2012
13. JPMorgan Chase – $2 Billion = Apology, 13 June 2012
14. Is The Obama Administration Sticking Its Nose Into Farm Chores (Storify), 26 April 2012
15. Trayvon Martin Case Divides Nation By Racial Identity, Politics, Age, Gender, 7 April 2012
16. Social Media Credited With Derailing Last Minute Slight Of Hand In Georgia, 1 April 2012
17. Today’s Southern GOP Has Roots In 1964, 28 March 2012
18. Georgia Senate To Vote On Anti-Abortion Bill Monday, 25 March 2012
19. Meme-Busting: No Arrest In Either Trayvon Martin Or Kim Kardashian Cases, 25 March 2012
20. Trayvon Martin: The Three-Week Old Story, Politics and Florida’s Right-To-Kill Law, 24 March 2012
21. ClearChannel Speaks: It’s Just Humor, Folks, 6 March 2012
22. Politics, Comedy and Women’s Bodies, 4 March 2012
23. Advertisers Begin Dropping Limbaugh, 3 March 2012
24. Is There No Line To Be Crossed That Would Turn Limbaugh’s Sponsors Against Him? 2 March 2012
25. It’s Long Past Time For Senate Amendments To Have Nexus, 2 March 2012
26. Elsevier-Backed Publishing Bill Bites The Dust, At Least For This Session, 28 February 2012
27. AT&T Doubles Upgrade Fee, Mainstream Media Yawns, 15 February 2012
28. Meme-Chasing: Literacy In America, 10 February 2012
29. Komen The Latest To Stumble By Ignoring Networked Digerati, 4 February 2012
30. Check Before You RT: Komen CEO Compensation Tweet Rings False, 1 February 2012
31. Winner Take All In The Tech Economy, 31 January 2012
32. The Not So Great News From The Googleplex, 25 January 2012
33. Tech Community Flexes Muscle, Senators Run For The Door, 19 January 2012
34. Election System Alert: ES&S Machines, 3 January 2012
35. Remember the Bush Warrantless Wiretaps?  3 January 2012
36. PSA: Ticketmaster Customers, Check Your e-mail, 1 January 2012

2011

1. Google Pushes Journalists To Created Google+ Profiles (Storify), 2 November 2011

2010

1. NYT Story Reveals Challenges To Reporting In A Connected World (Posterous), 29 December 2010
2. @BruceS on Wikileaks, Assange & Diplomacy … “Hope” He’s What He Thinks He Is (Posterous), 22 December 2010
3. The UN Speaks Out On Wikileaks & Whistleblowing (Posterous), 22 December 2010
4. Breaking: Census Releases Reapportionment Map, 21 December 2010
5. Breaking: FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules (Newsvine), 21 December 2010
6. The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass demonstration, not ‘hacking’ (Posterous), 19 December 2010
7. DADT Senate Vote (Newsvine), 18 December 2010
8. Court Rules e-mail Protected By Fourth Amendment, 15 December 2010
9. Washington State Legislature Calls Budget-Cutting Saturday Session (Newsvine), 11 December 2010
10. Excerpts From CRS Analysis Of Publication Of Classified Information (Posterous), 9 December 2010
11. Amazon and WikiLeaks – Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary (Posterous), 8 December 2010
12. Julian Assange Writes Op-Ed For The Australian (Posterous), 8 December 2010
13. The Pentagon Papers : 39 Years Ago Another Publisher Got Zapped By Unhappy Federal Politicos (Posterous), 8 December 2010
14. The U.S. Government’s Extra-Judicial Attack On WikiLeaks Is Wrong (Posterous, TMV), 8 December 2010
15. MasterCard Pulls Plug on WikiLeaks Donations, 7 December 2010
16. Infographic Gone Bad (Posterous), 3 December 2010
17. WikiLeaks: On Balance, Transparency Trumps Secrecy (Posterous, TMV, Newsvine), 30 November 2010
18. People Who Write About Economics Need To Know Math (Posterous), 28 November 2010
19. Tom DeLay: The Backstory (Newsvine), 25 November 2010
20. 2009 Transportation Act Prohibits WBI Use As Primary Screening Tool, 20 November 2010
21. TSA Chief Defends Body Imaging, (Falsely) Asserts It Would Have Foiled Christmas Bomber, 18 November 2010
22. Calling A Spade A Spade: Time To End TSA Theatre And Corporate Profiteering , 16 November 2010
23. Money and Politics: Super Rich Shape State Battles, 9 November
24. Whitman Campaign Inadvertently Introduces Levity Via Tweet, 20 October 2010
25. Why Ds Have An Uphill Battle Next Month, 12 October 2010
26. On Internet Censorship : ACTA and COICA, 12 October 2010
27. Americans See Congress As ‘Bickering,’ And Unproductive, 5 October 2010
28. USDA Beagle Brigade Sniffs For Food, 27 September 2010
29. PR In The Age Of Twitter, 14 September 2010
30. Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Using Curated.by For Breaking News, 10 September 2010
31. Android Exposes The Underbelly of “Open”, 9 September 2010
32. Ford Settles After Jury Awards $131M In Roll-over Accident, 6 September 2010
33. When Political Tweets Go Bad, 3 September 2010
34. Fact Checking Glenn Beck (also at Newsvine), 1 September 2010
35. “We Could Not Have Known…” (also at Newsvine), 31 August 2010
36. A Case For Religious History Classes, Take 2 : Newt Gingrich On “The Mosque” (also at Newsvine), 25 August 2010
37. From Polytheism to Monotheism: A Quest for Power? (also at Newsvine), 24 August 2010
38. Too Little, Too Late: AP Finally Provides Some Facts About the Fabricated Mosque Controversy (Newsvine), 19 August 2010
39. Senate Candidates Tackle Congressional Revolving Door (also at Newsvine), 18 August 2010
40. Rebutting Sarah Palin: Some Facts Around the Trumped Up Mosque Controversy, 17 August 2010
41. Politicians Continue To Pander, But Now It’s Democrats (also at Newsvine), 17 August 2010
42. U.S. Plans $60 Billion Arms Sale To Saudi Arabia (also at Newsvine), 16 August 2010
43. Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens On Two Continents, 15 August 2010
44. Burning the Qur’an, Literally and Figuratively (also at Newsvine), 14 August 2010
45. Thoughts On The Ted Stevens Story, 10 August 2010
46. A Case For Religious History Classes (also at Newsvine), 9 August 2010
47. Kagan Prepares To Be Sworn In Saturday, 6 August 2010
48. Jon Stewart Skewers Congress On 9-11 Responder Bill, 5 August 2010
49. Trust Us, We’re Corporations (also at Newsvine), 5 August 2010
50. The Challenge of Scientific Illiteracy, 2 August 2010
51. Rights In America Are Inalienable, 31 July 2010
52. American TV Networks Grapple With Stateless Wikileaks.org (Posterous), 30 July 2010
53. More Billions For Afghanistan, Iraq War; Where’s The Outrage? 29 July 2010
54. Breitbart Smear: “A Time For Action”, 27 July 2010
55. Money and Politics: Big Oil and the Revolving Door, 26 July 2010
56. The Senate Filibuster: Reid’s Rhetorical Excess, 25 July 2010
57. Breitbart A Modern-Day Hearst; BigGovernment.com As Yellow Journalism, 23 July 2010
58. Lax Federal Oversight Detailed At BP Hearing, 20 July 2010
59. iPhone4: By The Numbers, 16 July 2010
60. Ethically Empty: Whitman Campaign Rips Off FAIL Blog UI, 28 June 2010
61. “He Said, She Said” Journalism and Climate Change, 24 June 2010
62. This Is Not A Spill, 18 June 2010
63. Obama’s 90 Percent Clean Up Promise: That’s Not What He Said, 16 June 2010
64. No “Buck Stops Here” for AT&T, 14 June 2010
65. Ugly Political Posturing: Dems Attack Boehner, 12 June 2010
66. It Looks Like Less Than Net Zero To Me, 3 June 2010
67. What Does It Mean To Be “Critical”? Wired Column On Facebook Privacy Questioned (Posterous), 31 May 2010
68. Gulf Disaster: Criminal or Incompetence?, 30 May 2010
69. The Presidential Press Conference, An Endangered Species?, 28 May 2010
70. Twitter Account Spoofs BP PR Efforts, 26 May 2010
71. InfoGraphic: Gulf Oil Explosion, 23 May 2010
72. Concerned About Facebook Privacy? Check Out These Tools, 18 May 2010
73. Market Turmoil: Why Greece?, 7 May 2010
74. Twitter Deeds Archived To Library of Congress , 14 April 2010
75. A Case For TV Ads, 9 April 2010
76. Why I’m Not Buying An iPad This Weekend, 3 April 2010
77. Why We Need A Torture Commission, And Why We Won’t Get One, 30 March 2010
78. WSJ iPad Pricing Model Is Bad News, 29 March 2010
79. Why We Need a Torture Commission, And Why We Won’t Get One (Posterous), 29 March 2010
80. Who Should Win The Google Fibre Contest?, 26 March 2010
81. Why The FCC Broadband Plan Underwhelms, 16 March 2010
82. FCC Reports On “Broadband” Use, 23 February 2010
83. Why Digital Editions Need Subscription Fees, 16 February 2010
84. NBC Gives Facebook Exclusive, 13 February 2010
85. Betsy Aoki: Critical Thinking and Bing (Posterous), 9 February 2010
86. White House Makes Full Copyright Claim on Photos, 6 February 2010
87. Tracking A Twitter Meme, Arguing For Digital Literacy, 14 January 2010

2009

1. Murdoch Wants Cross-Ownership Rules Relaxed, 8 December 2009
2. Using GoogleWave To Engage The Public, 2 December 2009
3. Murdoch on Google, Copyright and Pay-To-View, 9 November 2009
4. Obama Secret Proposal On Copyright Puts ISP At Center of Debate, 3 November 2009
5. Can Someone Explain This Math? 25 October 2009
6. Science and Sports: Conflict In Genetics, 9 September 2009
7. Is The Economy Looking Up?, 28 August 2009
8. C4C: GM, Chrysler Losers, 27 August 2009
9. Happy Birthday, 19th Amendment, 26 August 2009
10. Cash For Clunkers Benefits Few, Stimulates Truck Sales, 18 August 2009
11. Cash For Clunkers Insanity, 12 August 2009
12. What Do We Really Know About Iran’s Election?, 18 June 2009
13. Army Corps Demands That Whistleblower Clear Testimony, 21 May 2009
14. Deconstructing Swine Flu Mania, 30 April 2009
15. Court Moves Closer To Naming Minnesota Senator, 2 April 2009
16. Obama White House Plays More “Politics As Usual”, 17 March 2009
17. The Myth of Paid Content, 9 March 2009
18. What If Mobile Were To Become The News Space?, 6 March 2009
19. Obama Teams Floats Controversial Procedural Move, 2 March 2009
20. Yet Another Introduction!, 2 March 2009