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member name: Rory O'Connor
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March 05, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
I know it isn’t fashionable, but I feel sorry for Ann Coulter.
While it would no doubt prove eminently, if only momentarily, satisfying to denounce Coulter in terms familiar to her and similar to . . .
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April 11, 2007 03:45 PM EDT --
No, product placement hasn’t gotten to me at last. And if the truth be told, I’m a coffee man… several large cups of java just to get me going every morning. Tea just doesn’t do . . .
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September 11, 2007 04:27 PM EDT --
I lost a friend, and the world lost a visionary social activist and human rights defender this week, when Dame Anita Roddick died at age 64 from the effects of a brain hemorrhage. Roddick, the working . . .
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April 10, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
Please forgive me for weighing in late to the latest Don Imus hate speech controversy, but frankly, if I raced to my computer to post every time the self-styled “I-Man” said something stupidly . . .
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November 02, 2007 01:39 PM EDT --
Has it really only been six months? It seems like just yesterday that we had Don Imus to kick around...and his racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team seem as . . .
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March 20, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
Thomas J. Wallace is Editorial Director of Conde Nast Publications, responsible for overseeing eighteen (Allure, Bon Appetit, Brides, Cookie, Conde Nast Portfolio, Conde Nast Traveler, Details, Domino, . . .
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January 25, 2007 09:51 AM EST --
Sometimes it’s hard to swim in the mainstream.
There has been much heated debate over the past few years over media coverage of the Iraq War. The Bush administration has repeatedly attacked the . . .
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March 08, 2007 10:21 AM EST --
’It was said a number of times, what are we doing with this guy here?” Denis Collins recalled his fellow jurors asking, as he spoke to the press immediately following the pronouncement that . . .
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September 20, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter – and a lasting lesson -- from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser . . .
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February 06, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
Remember way back in 2004— those halcyon days before thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars were poured down the ruinous . . .
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July 03, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, to mountaintops . . .
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November 16, 2007 02:49 PM EST --
It didn’t take long for the Don Imus enablers to re-emerge. Just months after the racist, sexist and homophobic shock jock was fired for his on-air characterization of the Rutgers University women’s . . .
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August 23, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Despite the best efforts of the Pentagon to keep the lid on, the story of Able Danger -- the controversial secret military intelligence program that purportedly identified five active al-Qaeda cells and . . .
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July 24, 2007 01:20 PM EDT --
I spent many years toiling in the television news business, countless hours of which were spent sitting in sleek, cool, dark spaces known variously as the “Control Room” and even “Master . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:57 PM EDT --
I wasn't aware that this is Advertising Week (I thought every week was Advertising Week!) until I received an invitation from Mark McKinnon to attend a panel discussion on "The Evolution . . .
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October 17, 2006 04:02 PM EDT --
Do you ever wonder why our media devote so much time and energy to covering those who produce hate crimes — and so little to covering those who reduce them?
Consider the latest case in point: a . . .
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November 27, 2006 05:14 PM EST --
How can you be sure that the news you see and hear is true? Are there any journals and journalists that you can really trust and rely on? If so, how can you find them amidst the clangor and the clutter? . . .
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September 12, 2006 03:28 PM EDT --
Now that all the books have been published and promoted… And the Hollywood films have all opened – and closed… And all the radio and television commentaries and commemorative specials . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:07 AM EST --
If you're a Democratic primary voter in Ohio, Texas or Pennsylvania, and are still torn between Obama and the Clintons, here's the best reason I know to throw your support to Obama: Mark McKinnon. . . .
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