HBO is developing a miniseries based partially on FRONTLINE’s The Dark Side. Watch it!

I tumbled and tweeted this last week, but for those of you who read me here or on a feed, I had to pass this amazing chart on.

The amazing thing is, as well as Fox was doing in the Bush years, opposition appears to be even better for business.

You’re invited…
Talks and Tours: Panel Discussion: “A Politics Forever Changed”

February 15th
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

A panel of journalists, organizers, and new media experts will examine
what we have learned from the epic political battles of 2007 and 2008.
Is the American public really more comfortable with female and
minority candidates? How did the last election change the relationship
between religion and politics? How has the intersection between
community organizing and electoral politics changed? And what’s next?
Moderated by award-winning author Courtney E. Martin and featuring:

June Cross, journalist and filmmaker, Columbia School of Journalism
Andrew Golis, Deputy Publisher of Talking Points Memo
Daniel May, Harvard Divinity School and former IAF Senior Organizer

I have mixed feelings about MLK Day. On the one hand, it’s essential to the lasting power of King’s message that he’s been taken in as a kind of Founding Father. The result that what was once a radical challenge to the established order is now taught to every kindergartner as a canonical story of the power of the American Dream.

But the flip side of being a part of the American canon is that many of the more challenging ideas that don’t fit comfortably within the mainstream, have been conveniently forgotten. The result is that King has been Santa Clausified. Quotes, arguments, and ideas like the ones Jay Smooth brings us in the video above have been conveniently forgotten. I wrote a post last year on the topic that was one of the most popular in this little blog’s history. I hope you’ll check it out and celebrate this day by challenging yourself to look beyond the icon.

Update: Yglesias has a nice little pt related to this on how little we’ve remembered and embraced of King’s radical non-violence.

He seemed like a pretty nice fellow back then, good for him for landing a good gig.

It does, however, throw his defense of the “objective journalist” in a new light….