ESPN’s Mike Wilbon I found Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent post on the lack of diversity in long-form journalism interesting, and it reignited in my mind the separate but similar issue about the lack of African-American sports writers. I covered a prominent college athletics program, one that drew regular attention from the national media and an obsessive level of attention from statewide media, but I was always struck by the disparity between the disproportionately high number of black athletes I covered and the disproportionately low number of black writers I saw in the media. It turns out that isn’t anecdotal: in 2006, ESPN’s Scoop Jackson noted a research project conducted by the Associated Press Sports Editors that found that just four of the 305 newspapers it surveyed had a black sports editor
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Category: Africa, author, Economics, Economy, emr, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Science, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War, Washington | Comments OffMore than one-third of the House will be either freshmen and sophomores next year.
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Category: emr, Feeds, politico | Comments Off“ Prog Spring : The brief rise and inevitable fall of the world’s most hated pop music,” by David Weigel. Weigel’s opus explores the overstuffed, visionary madness of progressive (“prog”) rock. In Part 1 , the Nice’s Keith Emerson buys an electric organ and lays the groundwork for the movement
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Category: Articles, author, emr, Feeds, Media, Science, Slate, Technology, Washington | Comments OffThe “Boss” star says it doesn’t help that he’s “a declared, out of the closet Republican in Hollywood.”
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Category: emr, Feeds, politico | Comments OffThe Washington Post is joining Time Magazine and CNN in punishing Fareed Zakaria for plagiarism.
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Category: CNN, emr, Feeds, politico, Washington | Comments OffThe Massachusetts senator walks a fine line on Paul Ryan.
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Category: emr, Feeds, politico | Comments OffMitt Romney’s current media handlers would like you to think he’s a mild-mannered guy who has become increasingly conservative over the years—especially since he was pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-tax increases, pro-gay and fairly liberal as Massachusetts governor before he ran for president in 2008 and started pandering to right-wingers. But a more complete picture of Romney is emerging this summer
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Category: Alternet, author, daily beast, daily kos, director, Economy, Elections, emr, Environment, Feeds, Headlines, Health, huffington post, Justice, Media, Media Matters, Politics, Taxes, Video, War, Washington | Comments OffVia POLITICO’s Ginger Gibson, Mitt Romney pushed back hard at protesters who tried to disrupt his rally with Paul Ryan in Wisconsin: “You ought to find yourself a different place to be disruptive because here we believe in listening to people with dignity and respect,” Romney said, referring to the disruptor as “young man.” Previously, Ryan had spoke at length without an interruption, but after Romney began speaking a handful of protesters disrupted his remarks. The crowd shouted down the first group, chanting “USA” to drown them out. But after the police had escorted most away from the stage, another group of protester broke out
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Category: emr, Feeds, politico, Politics | Comments OffIn a rare moment, the president puts on his shoes in front of the cameras.
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Category: emr, Feeds, politico | Comments OffNewsMax has a story that needs little by way of priming.
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