Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch Talks About Daschle, Newspapers, Mexico, and More With Andres Martinez

Watch Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch chew the fat with Andres Martinez of the New America Foundation at Bloggingheads.tv. The two discuss Tom Daschle's withdrawal, Barack Obama's stalled banking polices, the fate of the L.A. Times (where both worked on the Opinion pages), and the role U.S. drug and immigration policies are playing in Mexico's alarming disintegration. Clocks in at just over one hour.

Comments

[Abdul]

am I the only guy to notice that Matt Welch and Andres Martinez look a lot like Jonah Goldberg and Peter Beinart when they put their headphones on?

[Matt Welch]

You are not. Turns out certain embed codes are, shall we say, sensitive.

[highnumber]

Am I the only guy to notice that Matt Welch looks like Conan O'Brien in that shot?

[Tim Cavanaugh]

To be fair to Russ Stanton, it's not just Bill Keller who's throwing cold water on that online revenue = payroll factoid. Russ himself said to me a few weeks ago that Jeff Jarvis is wrong to draw any conclusions or hope from that number. Since I don't know what conclusions Jeff Jarvis drew, I'll leave it at that.

[Paul]

Martines hits the nail on the head for the Daschle segment of the conversation.