Almost every observer pointed to the unparalleled power of unfiltered social media to inflame and to mobilise.
Jonathan Wright Although unknown in the UK, bumptious petrolhead Adam Carolla has cultivated a Clarksonesque cult of personality over the pond, broadcasting his unfiltered views to millions of fans through his own personal podcasting network.
Direct contact with a large pool of potential voters allows Mr Obama to present his own pitch, unfiltered by the media, and the campaign's technical wizardry will ensure that it is tailored to the recipient.
Like most of their countrymen, they are anxious for any information, especially about Iraq itself, that is unfiltered by government propagandists.
Mr Snow himself, pipe or unfiltered Camel clamped in his mouth, would wander between the bones and the TV, or the bones and his pot of ever-boiling coffee, sometimes with a skull cradled gently in his hands.
Often these parental conversations then turn into new-agey free-for-alls, where vaccines somehow join the list of conventionally grown avocados and unfiltered tap water as lethal menaces.Nonetheless the issue runs straight into the classic American tension between individual choice, which is good, and public health and safety, which is also good.
Over unfiltered local beer, we recall our student days in Cracow in 1986.Walking home after dinner, your diarist gets hopelessly lost.
The festival was organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), a 90,000-strong lobbying group promoting traditional, unpasteurised, unfiltered beer, stored and served from casks wherein, with live yeast, it continues to ferment.Sales of real ale have bucked beer's downward trend.
TAKING arms against a sea of troubles, many governments in Asia have long resisted the tide of unfiltered news, rumour and comment washing over their citizens via the internet.
The unfiltered are enigmas: outsiders like Lincoln who have never been tested by high office; insiders like Winston Churchill who have fallen out of favour; or transplants like Mr Carney who have made their reputations in alien organisations.
But unfiltered leaders can make a huge difference, sometimes for the better as Lincoln and Churchill did, but more often for the worse.Another recent book from the HBS stable, William Thorndike's "The Outsiders", reinforces Mr Mukunda's argument about the possible advantages of unfiltered leaders.
