Word: meres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given NBC News' imprimatur and a national platform to Drudge to report on the President. "I wouldn't call what he does reporting," objects University of Virginia professor and media critic Larry Sabato. But Columbia Journalism School dean Tom Goldstein says it is wrong to dismiss Drudge as dispensing mere cybergossip unworthy of respectable news organizations. "Matt Drudge in this case is a legitimate news source," says Goldstein. "He's part of the story...
...time I reached high school, my family had re-located from New York to beautiful Tucson, Ariz. I was pleased to discover that my new home was a mere half-hour drive from the famous Desert Diamond Casino, a gaming Mecca established by the T'ono O'dham people. I gained easy access to the casino's poker room where I found myself going head-to-head with some of the finest degenerates west of the Mississippi. If you think that Las Vegas is mired in sleaze, you haven't seen anything until you've visited the Diamond...
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...propose that we take it upon ourselves to fill in the gaps in our racial education. Have empathy, rather than mere sympathy, for what it means to be a minority. Or better yet, go out and put yourself in a position in which you are the minority. One of my first-year roommates recently accompanied a black friend to a predominately black party in New York. As the only white person in the room, she told me, she was uncomfortable and began to question what it was like for her friend at predominately white Harvard parties. At the next party...
...newsworthiness. "Is it true?" is also important, naturally. But assuming a story about a politician's peccadilloes is true--assuming it's interesting is almost superfluous--should the media report it? That depends on a third test: Is there a public interest (in the sense of a stake, not mere curiosity) that justifies the invasion of privacy...