Progressive Commons podcast…
Kenneth Rufo of Progressive Commons interviewed me this morning via Skype for the site’s inaugural podcast. Here’s the list of questions [edited from the list sent ahead of the interview]:
1. What prompted you to start Rhetorica, and what did that process look
like?2. What would you describe as Rhetorica’s successes so far? Are there
things that you wanted it to do that it has not?3. Can you provide some information about the 411blog.net project?
4. Given your experiences, what do you think the potential of the
Internet is for political discourse? What about for academic discourse?5. Do you think the net benefits certain political orientations over
others? There’s an argument made, for example, that television uniquely
benefits conservative ideology.6. What do you think of the blogging practice by which conventional
televisual and print media are described, often adversarily, as the MSM?7. You have written a lot about a “structural” bias in
the media, rather than the more conventional bias of a partisan, liberal
media. Can you talk about the difference?8. If there was one thing you’d like to see done differently in media
coverage of politics, what would it be?
I’ll post a link to the podcast as soon as it’s ready.
No insightful comments, just wanted to say that I enjoy reading your blog…
Thanks, Duane. I appreciate the business