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Around the Tubes: 7/29/07

  • Two interesting posts about YDA: Dem Boots are Made for Walking, the site of a proud, twentysomething YDA member references the conflicts between YDA and the Democratic Party, while discussing the successes of the recent YDA convention in Dallas. Matt Glazer of Burnt Orange Report posts a thorough "wrap up" of the successful convention.
  • Speaking of thorough, S.C Politics Live posted an incredibly comprehensive play-by-play of the recent College Democrats convention at USC. The event featured poll-leaders Barack Obama, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton; interestingly, both Edwards and Clinton seemed to make more of an impact on the young crowd than Obama did, according to blogger Justin Chapura. Jokingly, Chapura entitled his Hillary entries "The Hills edition" -- referring to the vacuous MTV reality show. After the recent attention Clinton's cleavage got, I'm sure her campaign will love the MTV analogy.
  • Machinist News Network reports on The Roosevelt Institute, the first student-run think tank. It's a heartwarming story about 40 poli-sci-geeks who feel accepted and powerful when placed together to discuss today's most pressing policy issues.

  • The Christian Science Monitor reports, many newspaper and magazines are looking to give younger readers the opportunity to write on op-ed pages. The new strategy, however, may be launched in vain, as Advertising Age reports that even millenials still read magazines, supplementing print-information with newer media forms like blogs.
July 29th, 2007 2:19pm
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