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Running against a popular incumbent who reviles the Contract with America, Uldrich combines G.O.P. policy with his own detailed agenda. He would spare Social Security and Medicare, for example, but cut expenditures by raising the age of retirement in proportion to the increasing life-span. He supports tax policies that reward savings and investment, and the Bipartisan Clean Congress Act, which limits PAC contributions...
This Town is an outrageous and well-constructed political parody by Sidney Blumenthal, the special political correspondent for The New Yorker and long-time Washington observer. But before you race to catch the performance on C-SPAN (where the show will in fact be aired) you must be warned of one thing: this is a play of politicos, by politicos, and for politicos. The Gov Jocks and "in the loop" political junkies among us will chuckle with knowing recognition when faced with Blumenthal's expose of the inner workings of the Washington power game. But after two hours of this...
...Leno called the vice presidential debate "must sleep tv," and ABC complained it was a C-SPAN sing-along. A majority of the public say "dull" when pollsters ask them to describe the campaign. By the time of the presidential town-hall meeting, it looked as if Game Six of the pennant race would draw more viewers; midway through, Life Among the Manatees on Nova had more...
Only viewers watching the presidential debate on C-SPAN were privy to moderator Jim Lehrer's warm-up monologue with the audience. Lehrer summoned the audience to attention with a godlike "Let there be silence...
...audience is being further fragmented by the boom in news outlets catering to special interests. For Washington policy wonks, there's C-SPAN. For Clinton bashers, there's Rush Limbaugh. For teens fixated on Beavis and Butt-head, there's MTV's Week in Rock. The Internet has become the ultimate narrowcasting vehicle: everyone from UFO buffs to New York Yankee fans has a Website (or dozen) to call his own--a dot-com in every...