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Cam Newton Says He Doesn’t Get Paid As Much As Tom Brady for Sports Commentary. There’s a Few Reasons for That
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If Jews Controlled the Media, So What?
Few Address Question as Sanchez Apologizes to Stewart Ousted CNN anchor Rick Sanchez broke his silence on Wednesday about his firing, saying he had apologized to late-night comedian Jon Stewart “for my inartful comments from last week.” Those comments, made in an interview for a satellite radio show, excoriated Stewart for hailing from a middle-class…
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CNN Fires Anchor Rick Sanchez
Action Follows Tirade on His Bosses, Jews, Jon Stewart CNN announced Friday that “Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company” after the anchor “lashed out on Thursday at his perceived enemies — CNN brass, Jon Stewart and Jews,” in the words of Hunter Walker, writing earlier in the day for the Wrap. Sanchez went…
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Janet Cooke's Hoax Still Resonates After 30 Years
Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the day these words appeared on the front page of the Sunday Washington Post: “Jimmy is 8 years old and a third-generation heroin addict, a precocious little boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin brown arms. “He nestles in a…
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AUDIO: Racist Voice Mail Illustrates Debt-Collection Abuse
The Root obtained the audio clip below from a source at the National Association for Consumer Advocates, a group that helped Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) craft the End Debt Collector Abuse Act (EDCAA) bill. Though the clip depicts the behavior of just one California debt collector, it’s the kind of virulent harassment that has become…
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CNN's Don Lemon Says He Was a Victim of Abuse
In the course of interviewing young congregants at the Atlanta area mega-church pastored by Bishop Eddie Long, CNN anchor Don Lemon disclosed on a live newscast Saturday night, “I am a victim of a pedophile. “Let me tell you what got my attention about this, and I have never admitted this on television. I’m a…
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Diversity at Local Stations Falls for 3rd Year
“The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey finds that the percentage of minority news directors rose in both television and radio. But those were nearly the only positive numbers in the survey. Overall, the percentage of minorities in both radio and television fell for the third straight year, although the drop in TV was small,” the Radio…
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What Ron Walters Would Ask of Journalists
Late Professor’s Colleagues Urge a Look at the Black Vote Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she really got to know Ronald W. Walters when they worked on Jesse L. Jackson’s 1984 Democratic presidential campaign. “Jesse Jackson would have you join hands in prayer” when there was a problem, “but Ron Walters figured it out,” she…
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Johnson Publishing Co. Expects New Strategy in January
UPDATE: Saturday, Sept. 11 An impassioned President Obama declared Friday that treating Muslims with respect was in the national interest as he responded to one of four questions asked by black journalists in a nearly 1 hour and 20-minute news conference. “All men and women are created equal,” Obama said to a question from Wendell…
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First Significant Decline in Illegal Immigrants in 20 Years
“The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center,” Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn wrote Wednesday for the Pew Hispanic Center. “This sharp decline has…
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Glenn Beck's Followers Speak Out on Faith, MLK and More
Ever wonder what is going on inside the heads of Glenn Beck’s followers? The Root’s staff writer Cord Jefferson and a Slate V video crew caught up with some of them at the Restoring Honor rally on Aug. 28 in Washington, D.C. They opened up about why they were there and what they think is happening in…