April 17, 2008, 12:12pm
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., is urging final action on his bill that would create a federal “shield law” to protect the anonymous sources of journalists. He said one more Senate vote on the measure, which has the backing of the three top remaining presidential candidates, will clear it from Congress to President Bush.
Categories: Indiana, Media, Mike Pence
March 25, 2008, 5:00pm
Bloggers in the Washington, D.C., area were invited to the Newseum on Monday for a sneak peek at the facility, which opens April 11. And no wonder — bloggers already are a part of the history in the Newseum. Their impact has been felt from within the ivory tower of mainstream media to the White House, the courts and Congress.
As a member of the Media Bloggers Association, I was one of the members invited to the event. I interviewed Newseum officials, journalists and bloggers, and shot footage of Newseum displays and more for use on Eyeblast.tv, a video-sharing site and online social network for conservatives where I now serve as the executive producer.
Here’s the short video I compiled:
Categories: White House, Technology, 110th Congress, Media, Courts
February 16, 2008, 7:58pm
It has been almost two weeks since I posted here at AirCongress, and the few regular readers I have may be wondering where I’ve been. It’s time for a long-overdue explanation.
A few weeks before Christmas last year, I learned that my job as the editor of National Journal’s Technology Daily was ending due to a layoff. I spent the next several works looking for work and was fortunate enough to land a sweet job as the executive producer of Eyeblast.tv, a video-sharing site and online social network for young conservatives.
I stayed at Tech Daily until we ceased publication Jan. 31 and began my new gig at Eyeblast, a product of the Media Research Center, on Feb. 4 — the last day I posted content to AirCongress. Eyeblast is a work in progress, and my role is to help the MRC finish editorially what it started technologically several months ago.
We did a soft launch at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last weekend. I spoke as part of a new media panel there and spread the word to fellow conservatives who visited our booth. In short, I’ve been rather busy since Feb. 4.
That doesn’t mean I haven’t been blogging, but I’ve been dedicating my off-hours writing to another blog I launched in January, Taxation With Representation. For the next year, I’m tracking every penny our family pays in taxes in an effort to help Americans better understand the tax burdens on them.
I’ll get back to work here at AirCongress eventually. In the mean time, I hope you’ll visit Eyeblast and my anti-tax blog. As much as I’ve loved working in the mainstream media, it is very liberating to be out of the conservative closet and speaking and writing exactly what I think, without the objectivity restraints of the modern journalistic world.
AirCongress, however, will stay true to its original mission. This site will not be pushing a conservative agenda, and the best online audio and video will be posted here regardless of the political views espoused within it. If you think I’m failing in that effort, by all means register your complaints via the contact form at the top of the page.
I’ve also updated the “About” page for this site and my bio page to reflect the nature of my new job. The readers of AirCongress deserve to know my political leanings, especially while I am serving full time in a role where my goal is to further the cause of conservatism.
Also consider this entry a disclosure that I will embed video from Eyeblast time to time on this site. My goal is to solicit compelling content from users for that site and to eventually produce some of my own, and I fully intend to showcase it here. When I do, I will include disclosures within each entry to that effect. I will be embedding my first video from Eyeblast momentarily.
Categories: AirCongress, Producer's Picks, Technology, Media, Eyeblast
November 6, 2007, 6:39pm
Do you think it’s a bad idea for just a few companies to monopolize the broadcast and print news outlets in communities across America? So does Michael Copps, a Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, and he is fighting a plan by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to ease the restrictions on U.S. media ownership.
He discussed the issue in an interview with C-SPAN.
Categories: Media, FCC, Antitrust, Television
September 29, 2007, 5:37pm
The Google Internet firm, which owns the YouTube video-sharing site that is the home to much of the content repurposed here at AirCongress, wants to buy the DoubleClick online advertising firm, but the idea has raised both antitrust and privacy concerns. Federal antitrust regulators have been reviewing the proposal, and now Congress is taking a look, too.
The Senate Judiciary Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee addressed the concerns in a Thursday hearing. Google has posted to YouTube the prepared testimony of David Drummond, a Google senior vice president, defending the merger plan.
“Online advertising benefits consumers, promotes free speech and helps small businesses succeed,” Drummond said. “Google’s acquistion of DoubleClick will help advance these goals while protecting consumer privacy and enabling greater innovation and greater competition.”
Categories: Technology, Media, Antitrust
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