Is it just me, or does it seem that everyone — co-workers, the radio, the print media — is still taking a quiet mental victory lap?
Recent Bluessky Posts- Wild stuff. Fictional foundation, actually an army of fans, creates detailed story universe and licenses it via Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0. Filmakers make movie based on it without even trying to comply with terms. Lawprof catnip results. www.technollama.co.uk/v-h-s-scp-wh... September 14, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Legal Hist: William Smiley, War, Empire, and Authoritarianism in the Middle East, JOTWELL (September 14, 2026) (reviewing Mustafa Aksakal, The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire (2026)), legalhist.jotwell.com/war-empire-a.... September 14, 2026 Jotwell
- Black Eyed Peas. Oh, wait... September 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- We at UMiami don't miss him one bit. September 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Eric sent me this French video. It's good. www.threads.com/share/BAVqjZ... I'm first generation. My family history is so complicated I don't even know where back is until you go to great grandparents, and even then it's a pretty wide swathe of disputed territory in Europe. Plus maybe some Siberia. September 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Michael, are you suggesting that the radio and print media wanted Obama to win? 😉
No, just that they’re reflecting the sentiments of the people they interview.
It’s pretty clear that pre-Palin the media was in the tank for McCain (after that it got more complex and confused). And their owners certainly were.
Absolutely right, you could tell that it was the selection of Sarah Palin that forced Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to start supporting Obama. Before that they were totally in the tank for McCain.
The two or three liberals on MS-NBC are hardly representative of the media at large. Consider the people and organizations with the large audiences — Rush Limbaugh, the Associated Press for example. Most TV is and was Republican, both in ownership and editorial slant. Most newspapers are owned by Republicans, and most editorial boards — excepting a few of the best papers like the NYT and the LAT, tend to be editorially conservative. The Washington Post is now rar to the right. The Miami Herald is pro status-quo and development. And so on.
Well, the British media have generally been pro-Obama. Sky News which is owned by Rupert Murdoch of Fox News fame quibbled a bit, but you wouldn’t see that now–very Obama oriented.
Mind you the one person we haven’t heard from at all in the media here is Tony Blair. He’s obviously going to miss his pal, George. Maybe they can get in a quickie war with Iran before inauguration….