Get Real is in China this week working with Chinese journalists in a large provincial capital not far from Shanghai. Our assignment here is to help teach these radio and television reporters, producers, and editors something about the way the media works in the U.S. and how that might apply here. In many ways things aren’t much different.
Yes the media is owned and controlled by the government but in most day-to-day operations that doesn’t really effect what these professionals do. As in the U.S. the media here is consumed with …

Barack Obama may be, above all else, a savvier politician than even Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. Why? With his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court Obama has set a defining trap for Republicans: If they take the bait they will dig themselves deeper into the pit of electoral despair that will take a generation to climb out of.
There are two fundamental things to remember about America and voting: Women vote in bigger percentages than men (plus there are more of them to begin with) and Hispanics are …

Having just wrapped up a round of radio interviews with stations around the country it looks like the proverbial “Is the honeymoon over?” story is gaining traction. The cumulative effect of a badly marketed (and some say badly devised) stimulus plan coupled with his nominees’ tax problems is that Barack Obama has used up a fair amount of his political capital in a few short weeks.
Of course Obama started with more political capital than any President since FDR so he’s still got plenty of it and his mea cupla yesterday …