Fox News is not a news station. I’m amazed at how much credibility people give to a right wing PR outfit like Faux. Maybe it’s because people don’t have the chance to listen to their hosts on the radio. Driving around throughout the day, I have time to fly by...
Des Moines — Howard Witt, national correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, has won the 2008 American Judicature Society’s Toni House Journalism Award. Witt is the Tribune’s Southwest bureau chief based out of Houston. The award is named after the late U.S. Supreme Court public information officer Toni House. It honors...
African-American Teen Unemployment at 32.3 Percent Is Six Times the National Average; Teen Summer Job Climate Worst Since World War II WASHINGTON, June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) drew attention to the teen employment drought with a full-page advertisement in the USA TODAY. The ad raises...
Karen Brooks of the Dallas Morning News writes a follow up article to her story from a few weeks ago regarding black bloggers and the Democratic National Convention. Some of you may recall that African-American bloggers were pretty upset when the DNC announced their state blogging pool, the first pass...
I have to credit Gordon Keith and Muse in the News for alerting me to an innovative idea proposed by CNN Contributor Roland Martin. Martin suggests that the U.S. Government should consider moving election day from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, to the first Saturday in...
This was a pretty big deal for me. CNN contacting me about running a post about the MLK special and I asked for an email interview with Soledad O’Brien. Simple enough, but then they asked if I’d like to do the interview live. Uh…yeah. Interviewing Ms. O’Brien was one of...
I couldn’t help but laugh on Wednesday when I turned to the editorial page of the DMN and read a column written by WBAP’s Mark Davis (Time for Hillary to wait). In his article Davis suggests that there is still time for Democratic superdelegates to somehow come to their senses...
Since Brett Shipp launched another muckraker sweeps week attack on South Oak Cliff, I’ve had some questions. I guess I could have scheduled some time with him since I have his email address, but I thought I’d put my questions out in the airwaves like he did with Coach Mays....
That’s right, it’s been a year since our last Dallas South Birthday Bash, and it’s time to do it again. We’ll be celebrating at Brooklyn Jazz Cafe next Friday June 6th (5:30 p.m.), the date of the first post for what was known as Dallas South Blog. Dallas South is...
and now we have what … uh…some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama …uh..um..Obama….well both if we could [laughing] – Liz Trotta Man this thing is getting ugly. First we had assassination talk launched by she who must not be named. Now Liz Trotta, former New...
