"PROGRESSIVES" AND THE MEDIA

On July 21 the Aiken Standard published a wailing opinion column written by David Sirota. The column is entitled “When is Moving Away from the Center called ‘Centrism’?” Let us hope that the Aiken Standard has not decided to make him a regular. The following appears on his website. Check out the various links contained in his piece and be aware.

“Latest Column: This Summer's Trilogy of Truth
By David Sirota, 6/27/08
The future of the media is cloudy. In this brave new world of YouTube, Facebook and 400 cable channels, book publishers are fretting about obsolescence. But books have survived radio and television for the same reason they will survive the Internet. Human life is simply too complex to be represented by a news spot or a blog post � and three new tomes demonstrate how books will always be the necessary instruments for deeper analysis. They are a trilogy of truth in this era of misinformation.
Read the rest of Sirota's newest nationally syndicated column here...
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL EDITOR: If you would like to see Sirota's weekly column in your local newspaper, just go here to find the contact info for your local newspaper editor and send them a message with the request (remember - be polite and respectful!).
Who Is David Sirota?
David Sirota is a political journalist, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver. His daily blog can be found at Credo action (his old blog was at this site, but moved). He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both 501(c)3 nonpartisan research organizations. He writes a weekly, nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate which was launched in the Fall of 2007 and which now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers. Newspapers running Sirota's column include, among others, The Denver Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Idaho Statesman, The Everett Herald, The Idaho Falls Post Register and The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star and The Ocala Star-Banner. Sirota also contributes regularly to the Denver Post's website, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine. Sirota's two books, Hostile Takeover and The Uprising, were both New York Times bestsellers. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. The New York Times has called him a "populist rabble-rouser" with a "take-no-prisoners mind-set," while the Philadelphia Daily News labeled him "a progressive powerhouse." The American Prospect said Sirota is "the kind of pundit you'd like to have on your side in a knife fight and wouldn't want to cross in a dark alley." Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins said, "Sirota is a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed?' and 'Who's doing the screwing?'"

BIOGRAPHY: See Sirota's full biography here.
ARTICLES: See all of Sirota's writings in the lefthand column of this website.
MEDIA APPEARANCES: See Sirota's recent newspaper appearances here and television appearances here.