May 19, 2013

CNN’s John King Explains ‘Dark Skinned Male’: ‘What I Am Not is Racist’

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*CNN’s John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Source of that description was a senior government official. And I asked, are you sure? But I’m responsible. What I am not is racist,” the anchor wrote Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A [...]




NAACP Gets New Legal Defense Fund Director

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*The NAACP has classic litigation that it is famous for, but it’s been some time since we’ve seen a landmark case grab their attention. But with a new sheriff in town at the lead, there may be a jump to energize this area of the NAACP and set some fires under politicians to get us [...]




Gwen Ifill: Come to PBS for True Unbiased Election Coverage

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*As summer gives way to fall, the 2012 presidential campaign begins its transition from convention to debate season with tonight’s nomination acceptance speech from President Barack Obama. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Network news divisions and cable news channels are already prepping for the three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate scheduled in October. [...]




Conservatives Attack Gwen Ifill for Emceeing Fundraiser

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*”PBS News Hour” correspondent Gwen Ifill is under fire from a conservative media outlet over her decision to serve as emcee at Thursday’s annual fundraiser for Whitman-Walker Health, a nonprofit community health clinic in Washington. Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, which runs the website Newsbusters, wrote on Thursday that [...]




Audio: Gwen Ifill Dishes on Covering the Caucuses

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*Speaking via satellite from an assistant principal’s office in New Hampshire -where she is already in town covering the upcoming caucus - Gwen Ifill of the no-shenanigans PBS NewsHour talks about how times are a changing when it comes to presidential caucuses. Much has already been said about the lack of enthusiasm surrounding the lead up to Tuesday’s affair [...]




The History Makers Honor the Legacy of Nickolas Ashford this Friday

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*The late Nickolas Ashford is being honored this Friday by the Chicago based HistoryMakers with a  star-studded “Evening with Valerie Simpson.” The event, which will begin with seating at 6 p.m. in Thorne Hall Auditorium at the Northwestern University School of Law, will be  taped for broadcast on PBS.  Simpson, Ashford’s widow and creative partner, [...]




THE (09-29-11) EURweb Free-4-All Page/Board

Bryant Gumbel turns 63 today

*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; [...]




Oo-oop! Gwen Ifill, Soledad O’Brien are Honorary Deltas

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*Gwen Ifill and Soledad O’Brien were inducted as honorary members of Delta Sigma Theater during an event Tuesday at Howard University in Washington. Ifill, who has been with PBS’s for more than two decades and CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien both expressed sheer delight after the ceremony. O’Brien tweeted yesterday that she must have hugged at [...]