It’s become popular in the last year or so to examine the roll of bloggers in the media. I’ve shared a number of those here at Dallas South, and here’s the latest done by a new site called The Loop. See the entire Loop article by clicking here. Brooklyne Gipson...
The Barack Obama has just launched a website called The Low Road Express. The top of the website has a quote from the Thursday edition of The St. Pete’s Times editorials which states “The Straight talk express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter. ” This all comes after...
On Wednesday July 30th, I will appear on Kevin Ross’ Blog Talk Radio Show at 9:30 p.m. CST. The topic of Wednesday’s show is Are Bloggers Really Media? Make sure to join Kevin, myself, and Jonnice Slaughter who heads Chatter Box Publicity. Chatter Box just announced that they will be...
Set your DVRs and Tivos for Wednesday and Thursday night as Soledad O’ Brien gives a ranging view of what it means to be Black in America. The program starts each night at 8 P.M. Central. I’ll have a review of the show up at Dallas South on Wednesday morning....
The problem with satire is that most of the time people don’t think it’s funny. Usually it’s the very people the creator is trying to raise awareness about or advocate for. The New Yorker, a so called liberal publication, isn’t helping matters with this latest addition to media misx. Take...
Thanks to Nicole Stockdale, copy editor at the Dallas Morning News for giving me my first opportunity to appear in the Sunday paper. See my civic pride column below. Is anyone proud to live in Dallas? I pondered this question after listening to a weeklong radio field trip that NPR’s...
Make sure to check out the Points section of Sunday’s Dallas Morning News. I have a column that is scheduled to appear dealing with…well I’ll let you find out this weekend. If you like it or if you don’t, make sure to write (or email) the Morning News to let...
Many of you may remember Dallas South and a few other Spear members were featured in a Philadelphia Tribune article titled Blogger Nation. With that in mind, it give me great pleasure to announce that the Tribune has been recognized for their fine work. Congrats to Heather Faison who wrote...
Thanks -as always- to Farai Chideya, Devin Robins, and all the folks at NPR’s News and Notes for allowing me to participate on today’s bloggers roundtable. I was on with Shay Riley of Booker Rising, and Arlene Fenton of Black Women Vote. We discussed the “fairness doctrine”, Ralph Nader, and...
Friday was a busy day. I started out with a 6 am visit to WVON – The Talk of Chicago. There I sat and watched my Texas A&M Chapter Brother (A-Phi) in a rare studio airing of his show. Fortunately the sun rises at 5 am in Chi-Town so it...
