• Ed Driscoll interviews veteran journalist (whose career began at the NYT) William McGowan about his new book, Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of The New York Times Means for America. (Watch for this space for the unedited version of this interview.)
• Host Steve Green’s weekly Five Questions for James Lileks.
• Glenn Reynolds interviews pollster Scott Rasmussen on the midterms.
• From their weekly PJTV Poliwood show, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd discuss two very different independent films, one set in the heartlands of America, the other on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and handicap their Oscar chances.
• From PJTV’s Weekly Trifecta show, Steve Green, Scott Ott and Stephen Kruiser debate the merits of the strange, brief time-out MSNBC gave to Keith Olbermann last week.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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• Steve offers his final predictions for the House, Senate, and gubernatorial races on Tuesday in an interview with Ed Driscoll.
• Glenn Reynolds interviews Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and asks the governor if he’ll be throwing his hat into the ring in 2012.
• Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute and City Journal magazine discusses his new book Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer with PJTV’s Allen Barton.
• Pajamas Media’s Austin, TX editor Bryan Preston discusses the potential for election fraud on Tuesday.
• Dr. Helen Smith has a fun, brief interview with Julienne Davis and Margaret Arana, the authors of Stop Calling Him Honey and Start Having Sex.
• Just in time for Halloween, taken from their weekly Poliwood program from PJTV, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd debate the scariest movies ever made. Introduced by Count Floyd himself! (Actually Steve doing an incredible simulation, but what the heck.)
• Produced by the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.

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Featured in this video:

• My interview with social media consultant Brian Reich, who’s working with the Learning Channel to promote their upcoming show Sarah Palin’s Alaska, from the folks who brought you Survivor and the Apprentice.
  
• A clip from Sarah Palin’s Alaska, released by TLC just in time for Blog World.
• Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Scott Monty, the Ford Motor Company’s new media guru.
• My interview with Lt. Col. Andre Dean from the US Army, recorded in their large milbogger booth at BlogWorld.
• Plus more from the floor of the Blog World exhibition.

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For more from Blog World, check out the latest edition of PJM Political, which features more from representatives of the Learning Channel on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, plus my interviews with Hugh Hewitt, and Rick Calvert, the CEO and founder of BlogWorld.

And for 60 or so previous editions of Silicon Graffiti, just click here and keep scrolling and watching.

Hugh Hewitt, whose radio show I appeared on earlier today during a segment recorded at Blog World, looks like he agrees:

The girls were here to promote The Palms Casino; not surprisingly, this was a rather successful promotion, considering how many stopped by to meet, greet, and be photographed with the bunnies.

Watch for more from Blog World, including my interview with Hugh for PJM Political, coming next week.

(What’s Rule #5? Stacy McCain tells all.)

Well maybe not everything, but as W. Joseph Campbell recently discussed in a new podcast over at PJM HQ, if you rely on the MSM’s interpretation of history as your own, you’d have quite a skewed view of events. Campbell, a veteran former AP reporter turned communications professor is the author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, and as he notes during the interview, the MSM and its enablers have quite a predilection towards making itself the focus of news, and encouraging sweeping myths about their power to shape events.

And that’s far from a new development. No, the Washington Post didn’t single-handedly bring down President Nixon, despite how the film All the President’s Men appears. No, their coverage did not single-handedly cause a large spike in journalism students. No, Edward R. Murrow didn’t finish off McCarthy, despite what George Clooney and Mark Cuban told you. No, William Randolph Hearst didn’t get America into war with Cuba, despite Orson Welles’ line in Citizen Kane about, “You supply the prose poems, I’ll supply the war.” (And speaking of Welles…) No, the first 1960 television debate wasn’t a TV TKO for JFK. And no, Cronkite’s famous on-air op-ed about Vietnam didn’t cause LBJ to bail on a second term. But yes, they really screwed the pooch during Katrina — wonder why?

(Oh, and speaking of getting the last century wrong, Richard Cohen to the tie-dyed courtesy phone, please!)

It’s an engaging 17-minute long interview, and if you haven’t already followed the links above, Campbell’s blog, Media Myth Alert, filled with meaty posts on topics both in his book and beyond is all well worth your time.

The interview aired (in edited form) on Saturday’s PJM Political on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel, which is also online here.

• Glenn Reynolds interviews Claire Berlinski of Richochet.com about her new book, There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters.
• Steve has five questions for James Lileks.
• Ed Driscoll interviews Michael Walsh, founding editor of Big Journalism.com and author of the new book Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America, written under his David Kahane pseudonym. (Watch for a standalone version of this interview online shortly.)
• From PJTV’s Poliwood, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd debate “Is Television Fueling a New Class System in America?”
• PJTV’s Joe Hicks brings listeners up to speed on the New Black Panthers case.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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• Ed Driscoll interviews David Limbaugh about his new book on President Obama, Crimes Against Liberty. This interview was edited for time constraints; watch for the full-length version shortly.
• Steve interviews James Lileks on Christine O’Donnell’s improbable win this week in the Delaware primaries.
• Glenn Reynolds interviews pollster Scott Rasmussen on the November midterms.
• Ed interviews Rick Calvert about next month’s Blog World & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, and how candidates are using new media in the midterms.
• Taken from PJTV’s weekly Poliwood show, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd discuss on Hollywood’s love of school-themed movies.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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• Ed Driscoll interviews Bryan Preston, the newest member of the PJM team on the potential for voter fraud in Houston, and an insider’s look at the growing role of social media in election campaigns.
• James Lileks on the will he/won’t he Koran-burning pastor, the Dog Days of President Obama, the ninth anniversary of 9/11, and the new age eco-zealot “Dam Busters.”
• Taken from PJTV’s weekly Poliwood series, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd on the surprisingly un-PC AMC spy series, Rubicon.
• Stephen Kruiser of PJTV interviews Mattie Fein, the Republican candidate running against Rep. Jane Harmon in California, and getting a big boost in visibility from a terrific Young Frankenstein-inspired campaign ad on YouTube.
• Joe Hicks of PJTV interviews Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan and Hudson Institutes on balancing economic growth, financial reform and racial and gender quotas on Wall Street.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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