Election tomorrow: Columbia covering NYC

In another self-promotion bit, the Journalism School is covering the election tomorrow at the site www.columbiajournalist.org/elections.
A good chunk of the school’s students are contributing to the site tomorrow, which features a video broadcast, radio broadcast and new media broadcast airing from 7 p.m. to midnight EST.
There are also six deadline print stories, with corresponding multimedia [...]

Stephen Colbert’s political ad about ‘voter abstinence’

WordPress won’t let me embed the video, so click here for Colbert’s “Voter Abstinence.”
This is by far the best advertisement I’ve seen this political season. OK, it is made up, but it’s still hilarious. There are gems throughout this whole skit — and all of the Colbert Report — but the ad about “voter abstinence” [...]

Obama and McCain at Columbia

First, some excellent coverage of the day’s festivities from the J-Schoolers at Columbia: www.obamamccainatcolumbia.blogspot.com. (Disclosure: I contributed a couple pieces on this.)
It’s been a zoo here today at Columbia: police surrounding the campus, entrances closed, having to show a school ID to get on campus.
After finishing classes, I went out and did some reporting, adding [...]

Obama and McCain to Columbia tomorrow

Proof that I’m not at Santa Clara anymore: Tomorrow, John McCain and Barack Obama will appear together at Columbia. (BTW…note the snarky dig from the LA Times at the Columbia college paper’s “intrepid” reporters.) Anyway…
It should be an interesting day at school. The bigger news story tomorrow will be their joint appearance at Ground Zero, [...]

The predictability of the pundits

For the past two nights of the convention, we’ve changed the channel in my house a couple minutes after Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton’s speeches to see what the folks at Fox News had to say. Even if you didn’t watch it, you can guess what happened.
The first night, it was about how the whole [...]