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

Worst Newspaper Slogan Ever?

The D.C. Examiner's slogan - "Freedom Isn't Free" - isn't great, but it's hardly the worst newspaper ad slogan. A now extinct paper from Canada easily wins that honor... On the other hand, the D.C. Examiner's slogan is hardly the worst newspaper advertising slogan. That honor belongs to a …

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Written by David Frum on Friday April 22, 2011