How Politics Imitates Television

This month, Frum Forum is celebrating the 40th and 10th anniversaries of two TV events that were, in their wide-ranging effect, as big a "game change" in what we watch as Obama vs. Palin was in politics.  Forty years ago, CBS redefined the TV landscape with its notorious 1971 "Rural Purge." …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday August 5, 2011

Why Watch Cable?

As a sometime talking head on CNN, I'm arguing against interest here - but Friday was a day that fully drove home the uselessness of cable news. All day long, cable breathlessly reported the Tiger Woods story, while managing totally to ignore what had actually occurred. As a sometime talking head …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday November 28, 2009

Levi's Future

MTV's 2012 presidential campaign correspondent. Remember: you read it here first. MTV's 2012 presidential campaign correspondent. Remember: you read it here first.

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Written by David Frum on Thursday September 3, 2009