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Crashing the Gates of the Mainstream Media

Check out this great read from PBS’s excellent Mediashift website about the crucial role the blogosphere plays in media criticism. My favorite line is about bloggers crashing the gates traditionally kept by the so-called “legacy” media:
Here comes the crowd, and in many instances, they’re not very happy and they have cheap global distribution for their [...]

The Media Game has Changed

If it’s Friday, it must be time to connect the dots after a particularly tumultuous week.
A couple of local institutions took major hits – not the least of which was the governor’s office.  For starters, the Washington Post suggested that Gov. Bill Richardson’s days on the national stage may be over.
Whether anyone should ever count [...]

Huzzahs to the Best NM Political Blogs!

Congratulations to Democracy for New Mexico, FBIHOP and Heath Haussamen for making this year’s Best State Political Blogs list – an honor role produced by Washington Post blogger, Chris Cillizza (The Fix).
Between these three, we’ve gotten the whole package — penetrating analysis, unabashed activism and courageous reporting. And they’ve pursued their on-line craft with unflagging [...]

LOL: Read Burque Babble, then eat your vegetables

If you want a few good laughs, check out Scot Key’s regular blog, ‘Burque Babble
Burque Babble
Scroll down (hell, read the whole damn thing) to Saturday, January 3, 2009: Cheese Sandwiches and the Hieronymus Bosch World of Public School Cafeterias. We hope the legislature will expand a great bill they passed a few years back to [...]

The Ethics Fight: Is Monahan just a shill for little birdies & alligators

Here’s one you don’t see every day. The DFNM blog takes on Joe Monahan for shilling for legislators who are trying to kill ethics reform. DFNM nails this one dead-on the money. M-Pyre is on it too. Bravo!
So it seems that earlier today Monahan scolded Common Cause for pushing too hard on ethics reform and [...]

Insider politics at the legislature

The media is focusing increasing attention on the power of corporate lobbyists at the legislature. In the midst of the intensifying battle for ethics reform in Santa Fe, this post by Marjorie at SWOP Blogger offers a view from the netroots at how business is really conducted at the Roundhouse.
Insider Politics: Bernalillo County Lobbyist [...]

Contra Monahan

Political blogger Joe Monahan may be the go-to darling of the local MSM, but a great post at Democracy for New Mexico puts these matters into proper perspective.
A Letter From The People: Touring the Realm of the Dispossessed