Phil Bronstein | Phil Bronstein
Feb.14.2011
Media Bistro
They kissed us in Tahrir Square but did they really mean it?
Since you can't smooch Facebook or Twitter, which also got a lot of the English-language placard credit from the Egyptian citizens who actually did the overthrowing, Valentine's Day came early last week for flesh-and-...
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Jun.23.2009
All Twitter needed this last week was for Ashton Kutcher to be named the compromise president of Iran. Then the perfect circle of social networking, information gathering, and real-world events would have been balled up tighter than a Microsoft intellectual property-rights case.
But in actual life...
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Jun.10.2009
When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, "So, stop it all of you!" He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about. Well, what politico wouldn't want that?
OK, dad. We'll behave....
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Jun.02.2009
Republicans may be struggling in the dunk tank since the last national elections, holding onto each other for warmth and flotation in the Senate and House and fractiously searching for a new overarching identity to avoid being the outlying party for the next several decades.
But, don't be fooled by...
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May.13.2009
Carrie Prejean didn't lie to beauty pageant officials even though she'd appeared semi-nude in photos a few years back, so let's just get off that high Godiva horse right now.
Here's the thing: Since the old pictures were of her real breasts, she never actually exposed the new breasts she's now...
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May.06.2009
John Kerry wants to save newspapers. Or something like that.
Anyway he's holding DC hearings on the subject today, presumably goosed by the fact that his hometown Boston Globe has been teetering on the brink of oblivion. Getting as testifiers Arianna Huffington, never dull, and David Simon, former...
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Nov.17.2008
While Southern California burned over the weekend, the conflagration set off by Prop 8 also continued to flame up around the country. The Chronicle's story, which was careful after some grumbling last week to reference Bay City News' quote from the police on crowd estimates here, offered a good...
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Nov.17.2008
Chris Daly has a sense of humor. No, really. See his video response to a post here last week. It's funny, though a little long for a web video, and not as biting as I'm used to (see Don Asmussen's blog logo above).
But still pretty good for a guy often accused of being singularly angry, combative...
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Nov.11.2008
So I've been sitting here for an hour thinking about Sunday night. I've checked my e-mail, petted a cat, talked to my father, and I've been thinking about the night. I didn't blog about it right away because it was such a lovely night and I had to go to work on Monday, but now I have time to write...
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May.13.2008
Are they cooking up a miniaturization ray over there at Oracle?
Larry Ellison's wife, Melanie, and Arianna Huffington threw a book party at the Ellison's SF home Saturday night, and the food was all meals made tiny -- tiny cheeseburgers, tiny pot pies, tiny grilled cheese sandwiches. But I mean the...
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