Stephen Colbert has announced he will enter the 2008 race for president of the United States. (Video.) Tuesday night on “The Daily Show,” Colbert announced he was “officially announcing that I have decided to officially consider whether or not I will announce” a bid, but said he would make that announcement “on a more prestigious show.” True to his word, Colbert made the announcement a half-hour later on Tuesday night’s “Colbert Report,” saying he will be putting his name on the ballot in the South Carolina primary, running as a favorite son. (Stephen’s from South Carolina.) How does this shake up the political landscape? Colbert had CBS News Senior Political Analyst Jeff Greenfield on as a guest to ask him about this latest development. “What impact has my candidacy had on the campaign in the last three minutes,” Colbert asked Greenfield. “This could be it for Mike Gravel,” replied Greenfield astutely. Colbert is currently plugging his book “I Am America (And So Can You!)” Stephen’s Wikipedia entry has already been edited to reflect his announcement.
Picking up where our discussion on students with laptops left off, another great work from Prof. Michael Wesch and his students at Kansas State University.
I will be on a panel at ONA in Toronto this week, and I’ll be haunting some of the other conference rooms as well. Our panel, “Broadcaster Strategies for the Web” is on Friday at 2 p.m. and is moderated by Jon Dube. I will be at ONA starting Thursday and will liveblog some of the items of interest to the LR Faithful. Hope to see some of you there.
Less than a month after a similar announcement by Belo, E.W. Scripps Co. CEO Ken Lowe announced this morning that the company is seeking to split itself into two public entities. One would house the cable networks including HGTV and Food along with new interactive businesses such as Shopzilla and USwitch, called Scripps Networks Interactive. The other would be composed of the newspapers, local broadcast, and syndication arms. If approved, Lowe will helm the first while current COO Rich Boehne will run the second. (Disclaimer: I work with Scripps in D.C.)
Stephen Colbert has announced he will enter the 2008 race for president of the United States. (Video.) Tuesday night on “The Daily Show,” Colbert announced he was “officially announcing that I have decided to officially consider whether or not I will announce” a bid, but said he would make that announcement “on a more prestigious show.” True to his word, Colbert made the announcement a half-hour later on Tuesday night’s “Colbert Report,” saying he will be putting his name on the ballot in the South Carolina primary, running as a favorite son. (Stephen’s from South Carolina.) How does this shake up the political landscape? Colbert had CBS News Senior Political Analyst Jeff Greenfield on as a guest to ask him about this latest development. “What impact has my candidacy had on the campaign in the last three minutes,” Colbert asked Greenfield. “This could be it for Mike Gravel,” replied Greenfield astutely. Colbert is currently plugging his book “I Am America (And So Can You!)” Stephen’s Wikipedia entry has already been edited to reflect his announcement.
