Virtually Speaking

August 3, 2011August 2, 2011 ~ susie

9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd | CW Anderson – Ethnographer and Assistant Professor of Media Culture at CUNY, Anderson’s studies concern changes within local journalistic ecosystems and their bearing on questions of media policy in the digital age. In addition to his own blog, he writes at http://www.niemanlab.org/.

Sunday Aug 7

9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking Sundays

Digby & Avedon Carol

Tonight

August 2, 2011 ~ susie

Want to be the liberal version of right-wing media “journalists”? Have fun and influence people?

On Virtually Speaking Susie tonight, my guest is the amazing Spocko, the man who organized campaigns that brought down several right-wing radio hosts. Learn how to do it yourself! Tune in at 9pm EST.

Please call in with your questions and comments to 646-200-3440.

Tonight

July 23, 2011July 23, 2011 ~ susie

Saturday, July 23 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroy | Jay returns. Olivier Knox – who covers Congress and politics for Agence France-Presse, the world’s oldest and third-largest news agency – calls in from the Senate Press Gallery to talk about the debt limit negotiations. Listen live on BTR.

Tonight

July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 ~ susie

Thursday, July 21 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroy | Jay returns. Olivier Knox – who covers Congress and politics for Agence France-Presse, the world’s oldest and third-largest news agency – calls in from the Senate Press Gallery to talk about the debt limit negotiations. Listen live on BTR.

Why Cenk’s leaving MSNBC

July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 ~ susie ~ 5 Comments

Cenk was the only thing on MSNBC I still liked to watch, but the people in Washington don’t like his “tone.” This is a very interesting piece, I recommend you watch it – just in case you still don’t believe this is what happens.

Obviously, this happens with bloggers, too.

Desktop app for liberal politics

July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 ~ susie

I’ve been using Raw Story’s beta version for over a month, it’s pretty cool. A nice, streamlined way to keep on top of political news:

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — AlterNet and RawStory, two pioneers in online independent news, have joined forces with UberMedia, developers of the world’s most popular Twitter app, to produce NewsForward –a mashup of the latest breaking news, investigative reports and political opinion from independent news sources, cable news outlets, liberal bloggers, top progressive tweeters, advocacy organizations, elected officials and political insiders.

Unlike other news and politics aggregators built on RSS feeds, NewsForward employs Twitter as a platform. “What the UberMedia platform allows us to do is mix curation with conversation …the future of news,” says Roxanne Cooper, Publisher of RawStory. “Because the Twitter audience is so diverse demographically, we’re excited about the opportunity to both deliver news and information to readers who don’t traditionally follow politics, as well as introduce social media to more conventional audiences.”
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Last night

July 20, 2011 ~ susie

Last night’s show with Cynthia Leiu and Jeff Bryant was great! We had a really fascinating discussion about education reform and how it affects your kids and community. You can listen here.

Tonight

July 19, 2011 ~ susie

Tuesday, July 19 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking Susie | Cynthia Liu, Jeff Bryant andSusie Madrak discuss education policy and what parents need to know about the for-profit charter schools movement. Listen live and later on BTR.

This should be good, so I hope you can tune in. Call with questions or comments to 646-200-3440.

We get mail

July 19, 2011 ~ susie ~ 7 Comments

In this morning’s inbox:

You are a bitter, disturbed person with one goal in life… hurt this president. Thanks for all of your negative articles and helping lose the house in 2010. Idiot.

Who knew I had such influence? Carl Jung, genius!

Last night

July 18, 2011July 17, 2011 ~ susie

Fun conversation with Culture of Truth last night. Listen here!