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Last week CNN reporter Carol Costello came to Durham, NC to interview several North Carolina State Activists about a story about the Healthy Youth Act in North Carolina.

The story aired last Thursday on American Morning, and it is now Online:

Cross posted on Amplify

Last Tuesday, North Carolina State Activists Lee, Joe, Eli, Emilio, Me, and Wake Teen peer education Gabi were interviewed by CNN for a story about sex education. When I first heard the news, I didn’t know what to expect. I have been extremely frustrated with TV news coverage for quite sometime because it has been shallow, inaccurate, playing to people emotions rather than peoples minds, and in FOX News’s case, coverage has been racist, full of lies, etc.  Most coverage of sex education that I have seen hasn’t been very accurate and the stories have been super short (usually 20 seconds-1 minute), and the reporters never really seem to get it. When I heard that our NC efforts were going to be on CNN I was very excited, but skeptical that the story would be any good. 

Here is our group on the CNN set:

Dick Cheney admits that the administration was attempting to disregard the Constitution. Also claims that the executive has absolute power over the people but does not have power to fix economy.

If you watched the inauguration on CNN and you clicked "yes" to a CNN.com dialog box you gave them permission to install a peer-to-peer (P2P) application that used your Internet bandwidth rather than CNN's to send live video to other viewers.

Fred Langa's Langalist has an article about it http://windowssecrets.com/2009/02/05/01-Watch-a-live-video-share-your-PC...

Another way for business to make a profit: shift the cost to the consumer. The Terms of Service are draconian, you're forbidden to get any information about what the program is doing on your computer.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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I guess I represented the progressive blogosphere well enough the first time to be invited back on the air. I appeared on CNN Newsroom's Blog Buzz at 7:30 PM on Sunday to discuss the results in Nevada and South Carolina.

Host Tony Harris asked about McCain's "momentum" and we discussed the issue of race as it has been playing out so far in the primaries. The blogger/columnist for the Right is Mary Katharine Ham of Town Hall. Video and transcript are below the fold.

This isn't exactly North Carolina news-related, but since I am a Tar Heel and BlueNC-er, I thought I'd let you all know about my appearance last night on CNN's Blog Buzz segment hosted by Tony Harris. The format pairs a progressive and conservative blogger to discuss the newsworthy political stories of the week.

I've done radio before, but not TV. I did it via satellite, driving over to very cold studio in Raleigh. I couldn't see Harris or my foil on the Right, Amanda Carpenter of TownHall.com. I had to deal with a very trebly, almost painful earpiece, but it was still fun. We discussed the Des Moines Register endorsements -- Hillary Clinton and John McCain, as well as the Boston Globe nods to Obama and McCain.

Joe Sudbay of Americablog was kind enough to snare the video; it's below the fold.

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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Gosh golly, it's been a while:
For starters, I'm glad to see that glad to see Rudy's getting the attention he deserves even around here. Someone explain why we can't just jump from fact checking and ad busting to some kind of 'here's how stupid they think you are' metric. This latest pegs the damn meter in my book.