John Kerry said something I found quite interesting this morning on Meet the Press. The show was, as might be expected, devoted to memorializing Ted Kennedy.
When asked about what Kennedy taught Kerry upon the junior senator’s arrival in Washington, Kerry said: “David, when I first got involved in politics, I thought that politics was just [...]
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As someone born at the very end of the baby boom, the other Kennedys are a distant childhood memory for me, living largely in the realm of image and nostalgia. Not so, Ted Kennedy. Ever a part of my generation’s political consciousness, this Kennedy’s passing seems more authentic, more real and meaningful than the tragic [...]
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UM’s Political Advertising Resource Center has started a health care reform ad project. It’s designed to offer an inventory of the ads aired during the health care reform debate, a news digest of articles about advertising in this debate, and eventually analyses of the ads from graduate students and faculty at UM. This is a [...]
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A former COMM 458 student (Emily Feldman) spotted this Web ad from the NJ campaigns. It’s another example of how campaigns really aren’t particularly original or sophisticated–it’s a rather clear play on the “movie trailer” genre with some obvious nods to Star Wars and horror film trailers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdwfpSEaneY
It will be interesting to see, as the NJ [...]
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