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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Separating the Big Stories From the Little

In an interesting piece of candid self admittance, John Harris from the Politico, provides an interesting glimpse of how the media operates.
Politico’s editors are relentlessly focused on audience traffic. The way to build this traffic is to get links from other websites.
The way to get links from other sites is to be first with the […]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Quality Health Care

I happened across an interview with Victoria Wulsin in CityBeat this week and was struck by her concise framing of the health care issue.
“What we all want is quality,” Wulsin said.
Wulsin believes what has gotten lost in the health care debate is the patient.
The current administration has focused the discussion on the concerns of the […]