Main Street Media maven Stix Blog has summarized CSPAN’s plans to open its resources to the armies of Citizen Journalists (including yours truly) covering this year’s political nominating conventions. Thanks Stix and thanks CSPAN.

Tags: Patriot, Games, Radio, CSPAN, Media, Convention, StixBlog

Tonight’s show was outstanding if you ask me. First and foremost, the chatizens were engaged and inspired. I would not want to do my program without them. In fact, I couldn’t do the show without them. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. Second, my guest, George Mitrovich was engaging and well-informed. We spent a considerable amount of time discussing the Negro League’s and the late, great Buck O’Neil. The author of this post intends to treat herself to the July 28 Fenway Park Writers session (it’s her birthday).

Programming note: The name of the show is now Patriot Games Radio (formerly known as Bottom Line Radio). Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. Don’t forget to mark the show as a favorite and rate each segment as well.

Upcoming program: Terry Michael makes a reappearance on Tuesday, July 29th.

Stop the presses (pardon the pun) or rather not. Once again, The New York Times, the purported paper of record, has demonstrated its increasing irrelevance. By refusing to publish an op-ed piece by John McCain (R-AZ), the Times can’t help but appear biased, whether it is in this case or not. Ironically, the snub may redound to McCain’s benefit by reinforcing the widespread belief that the Times in particular and newspapers in general are operated by agenda-driven liberals.

BlogHer scores a coup and perhaps points the way toward an emerging business model within the new media space. The name of the game: selected eyeballs and BlogHer apparently has them in spades. BlogHer is an online community of female bloggers and the BlogHer site is so popular, it has been closed to new registrants for some time. Congratulations for pointing the way forward.