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The Menagerie of Lesser-Known Experts
A compendium of the more esoteric specialists cited by reporters past and present.
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What Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Can Teach Us about Empathy
Being a thinking person requires you to ask whether your youthful perspective on things reflected reality.
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It’s Not Washington, It’s You
Even Washington reporters make their own choices. Plus, I agree with Chris Cillizza!
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NYT Mag Offers Inexplicable 2006 John McCain Cover Profile in 2013
Did we need 6,600 words about the utterly irrelevant John McCain? Somebody thought we did.
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NBC’s Big Fat Gay Mistake
The network’s half-hearted attempts to appear gay-friendly while broadcasting the Sochi Olympics only underscore its complicity with the Kremlin’s crackdown on LGBT rights and freedom of the press.
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The Year in Preview: There Will Be Gaffes
Games will be changed, mean things will be said, and people will most certainly be outraged.
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We Wrote a Heartbreaking and Terrifying Post about Viral Content without Lists or GIFs. Then You Clicked on It, and Magic Happened.
Sure, you clicked on “8 Reasons Why This Puppy Will Make You Cry and Change Everything.” But what if you didn’t cry, and nothing changed?
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CNN Losing Interest in News
Their leader says he wants more of “an attitude and a take.” It’s actually not a bad idea.
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Will Zombie Marco Rubio Win in 2016?
Why the press needs to stop burying presidential contenders before the primaries start.
