18. George W. Bush, commencement address, Yale University, May 21, 2001.
19. George W. Bush, press conference, September 10, 2007. Transcript available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070920-2.html.
20. "Live Desk with Martha McCallum," Fox News, June 9, 2008. Transcript available online at Media Matters.org, http://mediamatters.org/items/200806100003.
21. See the transcript for Limbaugh's August 29, 2008, broadcast online at http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082908/content/01125111.guest.html.
22. Tom Kizzia, "'Fresh Face' Launched, Carries Palin's Career," Anchorage Daily News, October 23, 2006. The paper posted this and other old Palin stories online during the 2008 campaign. Available at http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/background/story/510447.html.
23. Chris Clizza, "McCain Manager: This Election Is Not about Issues," posted on The Fix, a Washington Post political blog, September 2, 2008. Available online at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2008/mccain-manager-this-election-i.html.
24. Jeffrey Lord, "Batman and Rush: Why McCain Will Win," American Spectator, August 19, 2008. Available online at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13726.
25. Jonathan Dignan, "(Less) Male, (Even Less) Educated, (Even Less) Experienced & (Even More) White," released by the Public Policy Forum in May 2009. Available online at http://www.ppforum.ca/publications/lessmale-even-less-educated-even-less-experienced-%0Beven-more-white.
26. See Calvin Trillin's "Paper Baron," a profi le of Lord Black, on p. 62 of the December 17, 2001, issue of the New Yorker for more on Canada's "tall poppy" syndrome.
27. See Joe Klein, Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid (New York: Doubleday, 2006).
28. The Rasmussen poll is available online at http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/february_2009/59_still_believe_government_is_the_problem. The Gallup version is also online, at http://www.gallup.com/poll/123101/Americans-Likely-Say-Government-Doing-Too-Much.aspx.
CHAPTER SIX: MORE IS LESS.
1. From The State of the News Media, 2006, the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual report.
2. "The Death of Journalism" appeared on Huckabee's self-titled Fox News show on September 14, 2009. The full text is available online at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550160,00.html.
3. Bill Bishop, "America's Partisan Reading List," The Big Sort blog, Slate.com, posted October 29, 2008. Available online at http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/29/the-many-ways-we-sort-ourselves.aspx.
4. Sacred Heart University's annual poll, "Trust and Satisfaction with the Media," was released September 2009. Results are available online at http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/30046_shu_national_poll_trust_and_satisfaction_with_the_national_news_media.cfm.
5. Allison Hope Weiner, "The Web Site Celebrities Fear," New York Times, June 25, 2007, p. C1.
6. Upton appeared on nbc's Today show on August 28, 2007.
7. Pew Research Center for People and the Press, "Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two-Decade Low: Public Evaluations of the News Media, 19852009," September 14, 2009. Full results are available online at http://people-press.org/report/543/#prc-jump.
8. Kris Kodrich, "Uncovering the Truth," Denver Post, October 22, 2009. Available online at http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_13612051.
9. Anne Trubek, "We Are All Writers Now," More Intelligent Life blog, The Economist. Available online at http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/anne-trubek/we-are-all-writers-now.
10. "Clive Thompson on the New Literacy," Wired, August 24, 2009. Available online at http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson.
11. The full lists are available online at http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html.
12. John Markoff, "The Passion of Steve Jobs," bits blog, New York Times, January 15, 2008.
13. National Endowment for the Arts, "Reading on the Rise," January 2009. The full report is available online at http://www.arts.gov/research/readingonRise.pdf.
14. The poll found that more Americans (73%) than Canadians (69%) read a book in the past year. See "Canadian Book Readers Fall Behind U.S.: Poll," Canwest News Service, January 1, 2008. Available online at http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=81b3a991-6004-4ca8-8259-4d605e1cf767&k=50303.
15. Turner-Riggs for Department of Canadian Heritage, "The Book Retail Sector in Canada," September 2007. The full report is available online at http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/padie-bpidp/rep/rapp-rep_07/rapport-pdf-report-eng.pdf.
16. Craig Wilson, "Professor Pausch's Life, 'Lecture' Go from Web to Book," USA Today, April 8, 2008. Available online at http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-04-07-pausch_N.htm.
17. These figures are from the trade analysts Bowker's Books in Print database.
18. Liguori made the remark at the 2008 "upfronts," the presentation of the network's new shows. Available online at http://www.slate.com/id/2191209/.
19. Enjoy the clip yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI&feature=related.
CHAPTER SEVEN: IF YOU'RE SO SMART, WHY AIN'T YOU RICH?.
1. Paris said this to Barbara Walters, whom she had called collect from jail. It ran on ABC and was widely and swiftly quoted in both the old and new media.
2. Margaret Spellings, commencement address, Montgomery College (Montgomery County, MD), May 17, 2006.
3. The transcript of the Palin/Hannity interview is available on the Fox News website at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424346,00.html.
4. The transcript of the vice-presidential debate is available on cnn's website at http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/debate.transcript/.
5. The clip was posted by a kindly soul named Connecticut Bob. You can watch the shit-show on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAEIcsOL2n4.
6. The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire has the full text of his speech at http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/02/07/text-of-romneys-speech-i-hate-to-lose/.
7. Santelli's rant is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA.
8. Matt Taibbi, "Wall Street's Naked Swindle," Rolling Stone. The online version, posted on October 14, 2009, is available at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30481512/wall_streets_naked_swindle/1.
9. Nancy Keates, "Realtors' Former Top Economist Says Don't Blame the Messenger," Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2009, p. A1.
10. An excellent episode of PBS'S Frontline profi les Brooksley Born and her concerns about the financial system. It is called "The Warning," and you can watch it online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist.
11. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (London: Penguin Books, 1963).
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