Category Archives: New Media

A Change MUST Come

October 30, 2008 – 7:48 am

Did any of you happen to watch Barack Obama’s 30-minute infomercial on most of the major TV networks last night? Two words come to mind – emotionally brilliant. Whatever criticisms some contributors at Phiscal Matters have with the Senator, all of us recognize Mr. Obama’s brilliance, his sound intellect and measured candor – qualities befitting [...]

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dead prez featuring Malcolm X – “Politrikkks”

October 26, 2008 – 8:29 pm

Shout out to D. Prosper for this leak. The RBG’z, dead prez are back, and just in time to make their voices heard about the upcoming 2008 Presidential Election with their latest song – “Politrikkks.” The track, which appears to be the first single off of their forthcoming album, Information Age, is a cautionary, radical [...]

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Change…True

October 26, 2008 – 10:06 am

Shout out to Jycorri and the big homie, Ryan for this one. Filmmaker Charles Stone III (Paid In Full, Drumline and Mr. 3000), most notably known for the Budweiser True ad campaign, a.k.a. “Whasssuuuppp” TV commercials in 2000, is back with a redux of that classic spoof – just in time for Election Day.
Stone is [...]

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Is Eight Points Enough?

October 21, 2008 – 10:28 pm

According to the Zogby International Poll, Senator Barack Obama is up +8% versus McCain as of today’s (10/21) data release. However, just this past Sunday Obama was up by only +3% points.
One distinguishing characteristic about the Zogby poll is that they weight down responses from Democrats to fit the general population of voters. [...]

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Shrinking ‘Play Dough’

October 13, 2008 – 2:28 pm

When we say everything has or will be affected, we mean everything. Yesterday morning, I watched an intriguing segment on ESPN’s Outside The Lines, which examined the impact on the failing economy on the sports – and the prognosis is not good. Sports and entertainment have long been seen as industries that seem not [...]

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