Sarah Posner is a smart writer and thinker. She is the senior editor at Religion Dispatches and the author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters. She also hosts regular conversations on Bloggingheads.tv (collected as "The Posner Show"). I was happy to get the chance to join her this week to hash out political media -- the uncertain (and very different) states of GOOD and The American Prospect magazines; how campaign coverage is like day-after television episode recaps; the ways of "othering" the religions of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama; and the persistant gender gap in both news media bylines and news media sources. (We explicitly mention Erika Fry's great coverage over at the Columbia Journalism Review.)
I felt like I was on unsteady ground for Bloggingheads: it's a new format for me, though one I've enjoyed watching, and we recorded this yesterday, when I was in the midst of traveling -- actually just hours away from boarding a train from New York City to Detroit. But altogether, this is an honest conversation between two people who feel invested in sorting out how political media resonates in our real lives. It is not a back-and-forth affirmation of our respective talking points. I said things I didn't know I was going to say, or that I even thought.
UPDATE: The Columbia Journalism Review put a spotlight on this conversation.
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