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Steven Waldman
Andrew Sullivan as Walter Cronkite
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swaldman
American TV News pretty much decided to sit out the Iranian election but there’s been no shortage of incredible reportage — from both MSM and new media. What struck me most was the role played by people like Andrew Sulivan and Nico Pitney at Huffington Post. They were not doing original reporting themselves — they…
Iran Coverage — Social Media vs. MSM
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swaldman
Last night, I was trying to find out information about the horrifying situation and in Iran. I turned to CNN which had Larry King interviewing bikers. MSNBC had a documentary about prisons. FoxNews had the Huckabee show, talking about credit cards. Then I went to HuffingtonPost, TalkingPointsmemo.com and AndrewSullivan, all of whom had real-time YouTube…
Sotomayor Wasn’t Always Hispanic
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swaldman
John Zimmerman of NYU explains that the term “Hispanic” is: ..a recent invention, dating to the 1970s and ’80s. Before then, when Sotomayor was growing up with her Puerto Rican family in New York City, she was not Hispanic…. How did Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, Panamanians, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans all become Hispanic? Amid…
Jim Gaffigan on Jesus
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swaldman
“Occasionally i’ll ask myself “What would Jesus do?” It seems he eats and naps a lot.” –Comedian Jim Gaffigan
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