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Follow Up Friday

Friday, June 15, 2007

John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent talks about the war of words between Fred Thompson and Michael Moore.

John Dickerson's Video about the Moore-Thompson spat

Talking Iran
Vali Nasr, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at what Democratic senator Joe Lieberman said about bombing Iran, and what Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback said about encouraging the Iranian labor movement.

Can Bloggers Replace Columnists?
Bob Guskind, blogger for Gowanus Lounge and Brooklyn editor of Curbed, looks at whether blogs can tell the same stories as print journalists did a generation ago.

Listen to former columnist Pete Hamill explain why he thinks blogs can't tell the immigrant stories that print newspapers do.


Comments

  • [1] Cheeto from Inwood August 02, 2007 - 08:43PM

    There a new blog called Big Sky Brooklyn that is doing a really incisive, artistic turn on industrial Brooklyn, particularly around the Gowanus (canal and expry), and environs. A digital-era, Joseph Mitchell-wistfulness sometimes bubbles to the surface.

    http://bigskybrooklyn.blogspot.com


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