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It’s Time to Eat Your Peas, Mr. President
"Man, after dealing with those Republicans all day, I need a smoke!" You can’t talk to a man when he don’t want to understand and apparently you can’t negotiate with Republicans either. So why try?...
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The Saboteur: How Jayson Blair Destroyed Newsroom Diversity
Jayson Blair made the job tougher for every other Black journalist. (This is a column I wrote in 2003 in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal at The New York Times. Blair resigned in...
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I Freelance, But That Doesn’t Mean I’m Free.
I do not suffer fools or lazy editors well. Being a blogger has never been my ambition. I looked at blogging as a way to keep my writing skills sharp until something better came along. I always...
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Maureen Dowd Doesn’t Hate ALL Democrats. Just the Real Ones.
“I’d like Obama more if he were more like my fantasy presidents.” Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist whose rep is based upon her sharp-edged nasty snark than deep political insights sniped at...
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Death of A Journalist
There is no connection between my career as a journalist and that of an accomplished and inspirational icon like Gwen Ifill except for this one personal anecdote. In 2008, I was an attendee at the...
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