The media has already discussed the ways in which Nader's decision to run as an independent candidate for U.S. president could hurt presumed Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. Now Adam Reilly of The Boston Phoenix looks at how Nader could damage the Green Party he put on the political map when he ran in 2000. That year he gave the Greens ballot status for the first time in seven states and boosted the third party's registration nationwide. If the Greens choose to run their own candidate this year, they'll be drawing on the same pool of progressive voters as Nader and could end up losing ballot status in some states, Reilly writes. He quotes Green-Rainbow co-chair Grace Ross, who says, "Divisiveness for a young party is not helpful."
Alt-weeklies may have to stop branding themselves as the papers unafraid to print the word "fuck." Editor Ben Fulton says Salt Lake City Weekly was briefly kicked out of Wal-Mart "because we used the f-bomb in our paper," Glen Warchol reports in The Salt Lake Tribune. City Weekly lost a week's distribution at the chain after a self-identified Christian stumbled upon the word in its pages and complained to the store's regional managers. Wal-Mart let the paper return based on promises of increased vigilance about the use of profanity.
An increase in outlets for journalism has meant static or even shrinking audiences for most news sources. The only sectors experiencing growth are "online, ethnic and alternative media," according to a report issued today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The report also said "alternative weeklies are arguably the most dynamic of all the media" and often delve "into areas that the mainstream dailies avoid or do not cover extensively—from city politics to government to entertainment."
Pointing to a sunnier overall economic outlook as well as to the continued strong ROI that marketers are getting from the Yellow Pages, Norton commended the industry for embracing change while at the same time tending to its core strengths. "We're not just paper anymore," he noted. "Most of the paper companies are online now, plus some of them have CD-ROMs and some are moving into wireless. Publishers are doing a good job of getting information to consumers wherever and whenever they want it."
Working from the notes of a fundraiser for Texans for a Republican Majority, Jake Bernstein and Dave Mann explore possible connections between campaign contributions and laws passed by the Texas Legislature. They scrutinize bills that allow line-of-credit home equity lending and increases in customers' gas bills. "The big lie of politics is that money doesn't influence legislation," they write in The Texas Observer, contending the matter was only made worse when legislative districts were redrawn along partisan lines.
The president of the well-funded environmental organization has warned members of "an unprecedented level of outside involvement" in this year's election. Leaders worry a takeover by proponents of non-environmental causes—including white supremacists and animal-rights extremists—could compromise the club's mainstream appeal. Matt Kettmann reports in The Santa Barbara Independent that the board candidates labeled as anti-immigration are far from being "right-wing wackos" and gives voice to arguments that the influx of foreigners, coupled with uncontrolled population growth, endangers biodiversity and food production in California.
Internet portal Yahoo has ramped up its efforts to capture a share of the local advertising market with an improved mapping tool that allows people to quickly find local restaurants, movie listings, ATM machines or other services.
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