The Spitzer scandal and resignation probably still has a few days to go - Sex! Money! Power! Fall from Grace! Read All About It! - and there are a few gems in the flood of dross.

The Nation profiles incoming Governor David Paterson.

Feministing spotlights the harrowing tale of Dr. Laura Schlesinger, who has found the root cause of the Spitzer scandal: Silda.

"When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,”

Oh, fuck you, Dr. Laura.

Scott Horton in The New Republic asks "Was the investigation of Eliot Spitzer politically motivated?" Look for that story to not be picked up by the Times, Post, News, and so on.

Just wrong: The New York Times finds the young woman at the center of the affair, complete with links to her freaking MySpace page. In contrast to the Horton piece, look for this story to be picked up by every media outlet under the sun.

New Media and Science Communication

Thursday, January 31st 7:00pm

Mount Sinai School of Medicine 1425 Madison Avenue at 98th St East Building Seminar Room

A discussion of how science is communicated effectively - and ineffectively - through emerging media outlets, such as blogging, podcasts, online multimedia, and more.

Please join:

Carl Zimmer, award-winning science writer and author

Christie Nicholson, science journalist and contributor to Scientific American's "60-Second Psych" online programming

Eliene Augenbraun, President/CEO of ScienCentral, Inc.

Eitan Glinert, Project Coordinator of "Immune Attack", a science-based video game and graduate student at MIT

Every once in a while, you stumble across a story in the lamestream media that departs from the lemming mindset of our distinguished fellows in the press to a most remarkable degree. Today's story on Rudy Giuliani in the Washington Post is such a story.

Now, we all know the legend of Saint Rudy the Watchful, endlessly retold by every media outlet that can afford the newsprint: how he planted his 200-foot-tall hulking frame at The Narrows, ever on the watch against Islamist evildoers. How he would have leaped across Manhattan in a single bound to stop the planes hitting on 9/11, if that dastardly Bill Clinton hadn't had him under a mind-control spell. How siting his Emergency Command Center in the World Trade Center was just a ruse that Osama, of course, fell for.

The filthy iconoclasts at WaPo desecrate the national legend by offering up some chilling observations about Hizzoner's actual tenure, and how it's somewhat at odds with what he's saying now as he runs for higher office.

Current TV is running some amazing footage from Hurricane Katrina today. They have five segments, adding up to an hour long program, filmed by Doug Kiesling, a freelance Weather Journalist. My wife and I watched it from 7-8 AM. It is next on at 11 AM (then presumably 3 PM, etc.).

The following has made it onto the Recommended List on Daily Kos. Wasn't expecting that! I may have to do this regularly! If it is interesting to dKos people, maybe I should post it here as well.

Being a New Yorker, I have realized that many people don't know what Rudy Giuliani is really like. It is amazing how few people realize what a dick he is and how our first responders DETEST him. So I wanted to find some articles (including my own...) that highlight how he really is.

Which then made me realize that I already have some articles on some other Republicans that should get more attention. So, here is what might be a regular thing I do: highlighting the articles that Republicans DON'T want you to see. Please feel free to add more in the comments. I may pick up on some of them for my own blogging. And feel free to spread the word on these articles.

Rudy Giuliani:
So few people realize what a self-centered control freak this guy is and how much he is despised by the REAL heroes of 9/11. So here are a few articles that highlight the side of Rudy he doesn't want you to know:

Yeah, I guess we are.

Hey peeps,

I am here in "the Media spin room" set up in Howard University's Blackburn Center. As I mentioned earlier, I am one of the credentialed bloggers covering the event. Well ... we're going to have to qualify that.

Come on over to culturekitchen to see the liveblog action. I am also opening a chatroom so you can join in on the cattiness.

Ta-ta!

PS : The Media Bloggers Association has a live feed over at their site. Check it out!

Every week we get requests from 'the new blogger on the block' to include them on our blogroll. The blogroll is tarting to get too long and unruly to the point that I am thinking of making some big changes on that department. But before I hear any rending of shirts and gnashing of teeth, I would like to propose a different sort of blogrolling.

In the next coming weeks, I will be experimenting with the new syndication feature I have here at The Daily Gotham.

Right now we have a small newswire service running in the back end. We use it to aggregate all the blogs from the culturekitchen Media network and some events blogs. What I will be experimenting with is more than a newswire.

In my effort to have more local content broadcasted over the nets, I will start promoting to the front page posts found on other people's blogs and syndicated through their feeds. These posts will be branded with the blogs logo and have links back to the original sites and blog entry.

mole333 mentioned Chris Owens's TV show, Inside the Congressional Black Caucus (iCBC, the lower case "i" is part of the logo and intentional), in a December blog, but the launch was delayed until now.

iCBC airs Mondays 9 PM and Midnight Eastern Standard Time on the Black Family Channel (152 on Time Warner in NYC, see your local listings elsewhere). iCBC is scheduled to premiere on April 30 with footage of California Congressperson Maxine Waters and Michigan representative John Conyers and an interview with the Rev Jesse Jackson.

Chris Owens, the Harvard and Princeton educated son of former Brooklyn, NY Congressperson Major Owens and a 2006 Congressional Candidate himself in the frequently discussed in the Daily Gotham 11th CD race, is the co-host and executive producer. Chris isn't the only Owens with a TV career, brother Geoffrey played Elvin on the Cosby show.

iCBC is a joint production effort of the Black Educational Network (BEN, Which he co-founded) through iCBC Productions LLC and historically black college University of the District of Columbia, UDC). UDC is also provides production facilities for Washington DC Cable Channel 98.

Chris is also negotiating with ION Television, the new name for the Pax Network, and CoLoursTV to broadcast the show.

Imus was doing what he is paid to do. He was doing his job. He was doing what made him successful. He was fulfilling the role society offered him.

I don't defend what he does or even say he shouldn't get his comuppance. But I do feel that it is wrong that Imus is being dropped like a hot potato for insensitive, rude comments while Bill O'Reilly can tell American Jews to move to Israel if they don't like a Christian America and Ann Coulter can advocate terrorism and violence and largely get away with it.

Imus is a royal asshole. But that was what he was getting paid to be. Ann Coulter is getting paid to advocate violence. Bill O'Reilly is getting paid to advocate pogroms. They are each getting paid far more than I get paid to be a scientist.

This is what society values, if salaries are any indication. Assholes, terrorist advocates and anti-Semites. In the grand scheme of what is wrong in today's media, Don Imus ranks pretty minor in the long list of disgusting statements. He, at least, wasn't advocating violence.

A grad school friend of mine commented on the sexual assault charges against Mike Tyson: "We pay people to beat eachother up, then we are surprised when they are violent."