Is it the fact that Judge Sotomayor acknowledged her background and life experiences as aspects that define her and her decisions, or is it what that background reveals—culturally, racially, and in terms of gender—that is the true target of these attacks?
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Daily LML (Love My Life) Ed Schultz and producers of “The Ed Show” took a trip from the Big Apple to broadcast this week’s shows from our very own Washington, DC bureau. Who would have thought that having one’s boss in the office would be so much fun? LML!
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New mobile media’s knack to distract may have greater consequences now that it is not just students and young people who rely on their mobile devices when in need of entertainment or distraction. These consequences might be truly deleterious given that the people in control of our country do it, too.
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The daily rundown of news scripts is a regular lesson in agenda-setting and the media. While printing scripts for David Shuster this morning, I watched in disappointment as MSNBC dedicated forty minutes of coverage to Carrie Prejean. President Obama’s roundtable with business leaders (read: future of the American economy), former Vice President Cheney on torture, [...]
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Daily LML (Love My Life) Today, like most working days, I am an elated MSNBC intern. The team of The Ed Show is “rolling out the red carpet” for my visit to New York this weekend. Located at 30 Rockefeller Center (and home to the show whose title shares its name), the insider edition tour [...]
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Has the bipartisan ship sailed?
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