Best of US Media

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The Jon Stewart ones above don't.

Here's a very impressive, and worrying, pyschopathological deconstruction of US politics as infotainment.

http://nplusonemag.com/politicopsychopathology

Not much to disagree with there.

Here’s Jane Mayer’s piece on Art Pope mentioned in the article, plus an NPR

In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed Gillespie flew from Washington, D.C., to Raleigh, North Carolina, to spend a day laying the groundwork for REDMAP, a new project aimed at engineering a Republican takeover of state legislatures. Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington. It was an ingenious plan, and Gillespie is a skilled tactician—he once ran the Republican National Committee—but REDMAP seemed like a long shot in North Carolina.

Barack Obama carried the state in 2008 and remained popular. The Republicans hadn’t controlled both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly for more than a century. (“Not since General Sherman,” a state politico joked to me.) That day in Raleigh, though, Gillespie had lunch with an ideal ally: James Arthur (Art) Pope, the chairman and C.E.O. of Variety Wholesalers, a discount-store conglomerate. The Raleigh News and Observer had called Pope, a conservative multimillionaire, the Knight of the Right. The REDMAP project offered Pope a new way to spend his money.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz266SYCmjd


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...0fa_fact_mayer

And here’s a great interview on the topic with Jane Mayer.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141078...licans-win-n-c

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The PBS Frontline program ran an Election special on Tuesday called The Choice 2012, which in essence is a mini biography of both Obama and Romney. Runs two hours, hope the link works.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2288869682/

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A TV panel offers 25 minutes of analysis on the week’s politics

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonwe...h%20the%20show

A TV panel offers 25 minutes of opinion on the week’s politics

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/10...012-81222.html

Twelve minutes of TV analysis on the week ‘s politiccs

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/polit...oks_10-19.html


A radio panel offers 50 minutes of analysis of the the week’s US news.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...undup-domestic


A radio panel offers 50 minutes of analysis on the week’s international news.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...-international

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Three editors at the Economist discuss the World Economy/Politics on Charlie Rose. 27 minutes.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12621

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A radio panel of journalists discusses the week’s US news. 50 minutes.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...undup-domestic

A radio panel of journalists discusses the week’s international news. 50 minutes.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/20...-international

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The week’s US political news analyzed from left and right. 12 mins of TV.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/polit...oks_11-02.html

A TV panel analyzes the week’s political news. 25 mins.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/

Need to Know, What’s at Stake Election 2012. 56 minutes in 9 discrete chapters.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2299877005

Frontline: Overview.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/big-money-2012/

1: New rules for raising money 55 minutes

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...sky-big-money/

2:How the campaigns find you. 26 minutes

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ital-campaign/

3: Interactive plaything.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ign-targeting/

4: Reaction to the airing on Oct. 30 of 1: above
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...campaign-work/

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THE SUNDAY SHOWS

The roundtable discussions are the most interesting bits, but they don’t make it easy to watch online. You’ll have to play around with the links to find the roundtable segments.

(The time the most current show becomes active online varies by link.)

--NBC's "Meet the Press": White House senior adviser David Plouffe; House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); roundtable with Mayor Cory Booker (D-Newark), MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Republican strategist Mike Murphy, NBC's Savannah Guthrie and NBC's Tom Brokaw.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/

--ABC's "This Week": White House senior adviser David Plouffe; Romney campaign senior adviser Ed Gillespie; roundtable with ABC News' George Will, ABC News' Cokie Roberts, National Journal's Ron Brownstein, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/

--CBS's "Face the Nation": Roundtable with Harvard University's David Gergen, National Review's Rich Lowry, Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan; roundtable with Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg, Republican pollster Leslie Sanchez, Rothenberg Political Report's Stuart Rothenberg, the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato and CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto

http://www.cbsnews.com/face-the-nation/

--"Fox News Sunday": Romney campaign political director Rich Beeson; Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod; roundtable with Fox News' Brit Hume, former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, former Bush White House senior adviser Karl Rove and The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-ne...ace/index.html

--CNN's "State of the Union": Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D-Chicago); Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH); roundtable with former Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), Democratic strategist Steve Elmendorf, CNN's Dana Bash and PBS's Gwen Ifill

http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/

--CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS": Roundtable with Aspen Institute president & CEO and biographer Walter Isaacson, presidential biographer and Princeton University's Sean Wilentz and presidential biographer Edmund Morris; foreign policy roundtable with Intitut Français des Relations Internationales co-founder and senior advisor Dominique Moïsi, Arab Israeli journalist Rula Jabreal, The National University of Singapore's Kishore Mahbubani and Haaretz's Ari Shavit

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn....gory/gps-show/


--C-SPAN: "The Communicators" (SAT 6:30pm ET): FCC Commissioner (D) Mignon Clyburn ... "Newsmakers" (SUN 10am ET / 6pm ET): Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) ... "Q&A" (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Author Walter Stahr ("Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man")

http://www.c-span.org/Series/Newsmakers/


--Univision's "Al Punto" (Sun., 10 a.m.): Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod; Romney campaign senior advisor Ed Gillespie; roundtable with Univision's Maria Elena Salinas, Democratic analyst Fabian Nuñez, Republican analyst Helen Aguirre Ferré, Republican analyst Alfonso Aguilar and Young Democrats of America Hispanic Caucus chairman Phillip Arroyo; Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA); Univision "Fin De Semana" anchor Félix de Bedout

http://noticias.univision.com/al-punto/


--NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show": roundtable with New York Magazine's John Heilemann, Huffington Post's Howard Fineman, MSNBC contributor and TheGrio.com's Joy Reid and CNN's Gloria Borger

http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/index.php

--Bloomberg's "Political Capital" with Al Hunt (Sun., 8 a.m., 1 p.m.): RGA Chairman Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA)

-http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/political-capital/

--Bloomberg's "Capitol Gains" (Sun., noon and 5 p.m. ET): Business Roundtable president and former Gov. John Engler (R-MI); Bloomberg TV's Megan Hughes and Bloomberg Government senior economic analyst Nela Richardson; segment on federal contracts for disaster recovery after Hurricane Sandy with Bloomberg Government federal business intelligence analyst Brian Friel.

--http://topics.bloomberg.com/capital-gains/

--ABC7's "Inside Washington": (7 tonight NewsChannel; Sun., 9 a.m. on ABC7 WJLA): Roundtable with Washington Post columnist Colbert King, NPR's Nina Totenberg, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Politico contributor Evan Thomas

http://www.wjla.com/news/insidewashington//

--MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" (Sun., 8 to 10 a.m.): Author and Slate columnist ("The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns"); Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson; SAFERChoice.org executive director Mason Tvert; ProPublica.org's Kim Baker; The Nation Magazine editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel; Bloomberg View columnist Josh Barro and Demos senior fellow Bob Herbert

-http://tv.msnbc.com/shows/up-with-chris-hayes/

--MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" (Sun., 10 a.m. to noon): Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher; University of Texas LBJ School fellow and NBC Latino contributor Victoria DeFrancesco Soto; former South Carolina Republican Party chairman Katon Dawson; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law president and executive director Barbara Arnwine; One Wisconsin executive director Scott Ross; former DNC Communications Director and MSNBC contributor Karen Finney

--http://tv.msnbc.com/shows/melissa-harris-perry/

--PBS's "To the Contrary": Romney campaign adviser Bay Buchanan and Obama campaign adviser Karine Jean-Pierre; roundtable with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Heritage Foundation's Genevieve Wood, National Organization for Women's Erin Matson and Hispanic Leadership Network's Jennifer Sevilla Korn

http://www.pbs.org/ttc/

--TV One's "Washington Watch with Roland Martin": (Sun., 9 a.m.): Labor Secretary Hilda Solis; NAACP senior vice president Hilary Shelton; journalist / commentator panel with The Washington Post's Michael Fletcher, Georgetown University's Dr. Chris Metzler, Republican strategist Lenny McAllister and Sirius/XM host Joe Madison; actor Charles S. Dutton

-http://www.rolandsmartin.com/podcast/

--SiriusXM's "Polioptics" with Josh King: on hiatus this week due to Sandy.

http://www.polioptics.com