The PolySigh blog takes a look at what all reporters and editors know to be the hatchet they carry around in their back pocket– quoting their source verbatim and making them sound like an idiot. It’s common for reporters to clean up quotes by correcting grammar and removing verbal pauses [...]

Here’s a hilarious promo for the Austin American Statesman newspaper breaking news as they rip TV for being slow about breaking news.

I’m not an expert in polling research methodology at all, but I’ve recognize a couple flaws in the polls we constantly see touted in front of us. Sampling methods are flawed and don’t pull from a complete census. Tracking polls work for following trends, but not to predict what’s going [...]

It’s about that time in the Presidential election cycle for the media polls to start meaning absolutely nothing.  This always happens right about the same time the media really starts hyping the spread between the candidates in the poll. There are two issues with looking at nationwide polling data. First, [...]

The Mike Huckabee exploratory committee launched a new web site. It is a big improvement over the previous iteration that I blogged about when announced he was running for president. Some of the improvements in the sight include a title (I Like Mike), campaign blog, video, links to social networking [...]

Texas Republican Congressman, Lamar Smith, has introduced a bill that will require ISPs to record all users surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely. Smith cites the increasing sophistication of cyber-crimes and cyber-terrorists as the motivation for the bill. Unfortunately, I don’t think we can trust the government with [...]

I just recently started posting on politics, particularly focusing on politicians use of online media to promote themselves/their causes. For some of my regular readers (all two of you) my interest in politics will come as a shock, but I guess I am trying to integrate (converge) my interests in [...]

While a lot of my internet-politics post will focus on the 2008 presidential race, I found Arkansas Representative, Steve Harrelson’s blogger blog Under the Dome last night. He serves as the Arkansas House of Representatives Majority Leader and posts to his blog multiple times throughout the day from on the [...]

The Internet is playing an increasingly important role in help citizens shape their political reviews. The Pew Internet and the American Life 2006 Elections Online (pdf) released last month presents a revealing look at how Americans use the Internet with relations to politics. The findings in this report include 15 [...]

Arkansas’s former governor, Mike Huckabee, announced yesterday morning on Meet the Press that he was running for the Republican nomination for president for the 2008 election. As I was watching him duck and weave Tim Russert’s question on my DVR late Sunday morning (about 10:45 a.m.), I started looking for [...]