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From the opening seconds, the show seems more focused on showing that ESPN is a legitimate news-gathering operation than on crafting journalism. In the run-up to the show's debut episode, I was most excited about this sentence from the network's publicity department: "To differentiate itself from other newsmagazines ... E:60 will feature extensive behind the scenes looks at how the reporters create the stories, from pitching the ideas and creating storylines to interviewing subjects." I was excited to see a genuine ESPN meeting make it to the screen. The pitch meetings I've attended in my years as a TV producer have mostly consisted of people stammering out half-formed thoughts as the other staffers stifle yawns and eat doughnuts. Actual decisions to shoot or not to shoot a piece are usually made via e-mail.
Crash kills Heavener man
George Robert Guinn, 52, was driving a tractor-trailer rig when he hit a vehicle that traveled into his path while it was trying to merge onto the highway. Guinn was taken to OU Medical Center, where he died. The driver of the other vehicle, along with a passenger, was not injured. .
Duke Case: Now Coleman v. Taylor & Johnson
Public apologies to conservatives La Shawn Barber, Mike (Crystal Mess) McCusker and Joe Scarborough acknowledged the validity of my criticism that "what some on the right did" was omitted. Now Professor Coleman has ever so helpfully shown that there was "overemphasizing what some on the left did." [Note: The praise of liberals Dan Abrams and Jeralyn Merritt was NPT overdone, but, for example, by omitting to mention Rush Limbaugh and barely mentioning Sean Hannity, the co-authors "overemphasiz[ed] what some on the left did." A perrplexed KC Johnson responded to Professor Coleman as follows: "I quote from p. 209, of Until Proven Innocent, the book that Stuart Taylor and I co-authored on the case: 'The [Coleman] committee issued its twenty-five page report on May 1, the first day of final exams.
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