News of the week on Virtually Speaking Sundays: Gaius & Avedon Carol
What happened this week? What have Obama, Israel, the NRA and Keystone Pipeline lovers done lately? Tune in.
Matt Yglesias resigns from the presumed-progressive community — with prejudice
Shorter Yglesias: I enrich myself by defending your forced suffering. Bad choice on your part.
The Chicago Trib sent the Boston Globe pizza today, and a kind note
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, I think the media had a harder job than we give credit.
Jon Stewart unhappy with CNN’s coverage of Boston Marathon bombing
Jon Stewart mocks CNN for reporting (along w/ AP) that someone had been arrested. But was it really CNN’s fault?
Programming note: Gaius on the Obama budget and other news of the week
Discussing Obama cuts with Maya Rockeymoore. Discussing the week’s atrocities with Digby of Hullabaloo.
Facebook would like you to hate it a little bit more
As if the Instagram scandal weren’t bad enough, Facebook is now launching auto-play video ads in your news feed.
GOP agrees to raise taxes, challenges Obama to cut social programs
It’s clear the Obama-Boehner cat-food-for-taxes deal is still on the table.
Beyond Fox News: The GOP is realizing it needs to talk to the rest of the media too
If the GOP ever wants to reach Latinos and women, among others, it needs to move beyond the Fox News bubble.
Creepy trend: Local TV buying canned news, broadcasting as their own
Conan O’Brien finds local TV is buying scripts and video of pre-fab news, then pretending it’s their own story.




