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Horserace politics and the American Election

  • Posted by barry
  • March 6, 2008

Jeff Jarvis smacks down the American media’s love for (and lack of skill at) horse race politics:
It’s amazing that reporters love horse-race coverage since they’re so damned lousy at it…
Any idiot can bet on a horse and lose. And there’s a word for them. Losers.
While we’ve also been quite critical here about the Australian [...]

Club Bloggery - Once Were Barons

  • Posted by barry
  • March 3, 2008

Our latest piece is up at the ABC here Feel free to comment there or here.

Club Bloggery: Once were barons
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders
The Bulletin magazine, published by ACP, has closed down after almost 130 years of publishing.
Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, [...]