Media Nation » Gail Collins http://www.dankennedy.net By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:57:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 All politics is (still) local (II) http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/11/05/all-politics-is-still-local-ii/ http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/11/05/all-politics-is-still-local-ii/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:02:42 +0000 Dan Kennedy http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=6622 New York Times columnist Gail Collins: “We have a dramatic saga story line brewing here, and I do not want to mess it up by pointing out that Obama’s party won the only two elections that actually had anything to do with the president’s agenda.”

]]> http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/11/05/all-politics-is-still-local-ii/feed/ 26 Collins and Brooks on Obama http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/05/20/collins-and-brooks-on-obama/ http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/05/20/collins-and-brooks-on-obama/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 00:23:00 +0000 Dan Kennedy http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/05/20/collins-and-brooks-on-obama/ Not only do I like this exchange between New York Times columnists Gail Collins and David Brooks, but I like it more than many of their columns. It’s not blogging. It is a conversation — or “The Conversation,” as the Times labels it.

It’s not that they’re finally saying what they really mean — in fact, they’ve both made essentially the same points in their columns, especially Brooks. It’s that their exchange is loose and human in ways that their published work isn’t.

I hope “The Conversation” affects their column-writing.

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