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You Need To Seek Out Ideas and Opinions That Are Different From Your Beliefs
[Editor's Note: This post's title was changed on September 16th from "if you're a conservative, tell me which liberals you read: if you're a liberal, tell me which conservatives you read."] I was born...
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If I were the CEO of CNN… (Part 1)
A few weeks ago, I was stuck in traffic so I flipped on NPR. As it was the 6 o’clock hour, Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal was on. To my delight, they were talking about the impending shift at CNN. That...
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If I were the CEO of CNN… (Part 2)
In yesterday’s post (Part 1), I went down a bit of a tangent and really focused on CNN’s potential to become the “go-to” network for fact-checking. Today, I wanted to revisit the idea of being the CEO...
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Imagine If the USA Went to War… and No One Cared
While the title is a bit provocative, it’s not completely unsubstantiated. Right now in the United States, some veterans have waited over 600 days to hear back about their benefits… SIX HUNDRED DAYS!...
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Cutting Salary to Show Solidarity: This Isn’t Empathy
A couple of days ago, there was news indicating that President Obama was going to return 5% of his salary, which amounts to about $17,000, as a sign of solidarity with those federal workers who’ve been...
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Is Sunshine Really the Best Disinfectant: Edward Snowden, PRISM, and the NSA
In keeping with the theme from yesterday’s post about Edward Snowden and the leaks about PRISM and the NSA, I thought I’d share something that I was reminded of when I was watching some of the coverage...
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More Civilized Conversations, Less Screaming Over Each Other
A few days ago, I happened to catch a segment from All In With Chris Hayes. He had on one of the people I follow on Twitter, Tim Carney. Part of the reason that this is noteworthy is because Carney is...
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Massive Miscalculation by GOP Chairman Reince Priebus: No Debates with CNN or...
Earlier today, I saw a series of tweets from the GOP Chairman, Reince Priebus: Today I sent letters to @NBC & @CNN telling them to halt production of Hillary Clinton programming....
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Musings on the Future of Cable News
After reading Kelefa Sanneh‘s piece in The New Yorker that took an in-depth look at MSNBC, it got me thinking about what I wrote a few days about about the future of TV. In that post, I mostly talked...
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Should it be Illegal to Call Someone ‘fat’ on TV?
Jennifer Lawrence thinks so. Take a look: She certainly makes a good point. If we’re regulating other words that are spoken on TV because of the effect they have on younger generations, why not the...
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Evidence that Liberals and Conservatives Can Have Civilized Conversations on...
This past summer, I talked about a segment on a cable news show in the US called, “All In With Chris Hayes.” I first started watching Chris Hayes when he started his weekly weekend show, “Up With Chris...
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