In class last week we got to meet Deborah Solomon. She handles the public lives column for the New York Times magazine every week. She
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The Lede: Starting Your Article
The lede is the most important part of a news story. What is a lede? It's not a made up word. It's pronounced lead --
Stripping the Award: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Apparently there is a bit of an urban legend that Mumia Abu-Jamal won a Peabody award in 1981, the year before he was found guilty
Word of the Day is!!!
Remember Pee-Wee Herman's word of the day. Everyone used to scream. Today the Oxford dictionary announced the word of the year. Drum-roll please.............. Podcast. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Intelligent Design is So Smart
Anybody notice how the "Intelligent Design" argument is itself a theoretical evolution of the creation argument? I love it. It's as if, in order to