Do we really need a bailout?

If this was simply an issue of false balance – where we have a bunch of smart people saying yes to the bailout, and crazy uninformed people saying no – then it would be easy to discount the dissenting voices. But that’s not the reality that we’re dealing with.

I wonder if we are repeating our [...]

Palin, Campaign ads more important than economy issue?

Our latest Yahoo! News 60 Minutes story is a two-parter, interviews with John McCain and Barack Obama. The story went live Sunday night, and I’ve been watching which clips are readers are most interested in.
Interestingly, the video clips of Obama and McCain discuss Sarah Palin and her influence on the race, and the clip [...]

The financial crisis and the realities

The news of impending doom in the financial world is certainly scary. The Poynter Institute has a great note putting it in sobering, but proper, perspective.
Also, Charlie Rose tonight is interviewing the former CEO of AIG, so look for that video featured tomorrow on Yahoo! News.

The Sarah Palin action figure

Sarah Palin action figure, originally uploaded by scriptingnews.

If there was still any doubt whether Sarah Palin has crossed the dividing line between political figure, and mass pop culture figure – news today that her action figure is being released ended that doubt.

The Sarah Palin phenomenon enters new stage

Today came arguably the clearest sign that Sarah Palin is a force for Obama to reckon with. She crossed firmly into popular culture with word that her glasses are a popular fashion item.
Searches concerning Sarah Palin’s glasses spiked today on Yahoo!.
The Palin glasses are being spoken about in the same sentence with [...]

Sarah Palin interest high on the Net

Yahoo! is seeing a lot of interest in Sarah Palin. Our Yahoo! Buzz team wrote a very interesting blog post about some of the Web searches on Palin.
We’re seeing searches about Palin’s speech last night, fact checking of her speech, and searches centered around a National Enquirer story about rumors of an affair. Also, [...]

Sarah Palin takes center stage online

It’s fascinating to see this, because it’s one of those instant Internet phenomena, when you don’t know exactly where it will lead and what it will mean.

Weekend’s extraordinary news

Will the vastly improved response to Hurricane Gustav finally begin to heal some of the deep wounds of Katrina

This past weekend was pretty extraordinary for news. Yahoo! News saw a sizeable spike in news traffic, and that did also translate to my 60 Minutes projects. We had two extremely relevant stories over the weekend – [...]