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Suggestions for future ghenerations

Kerry tried to recommend that I write tonight about a specific story. I couldn’t find that story, so I decided instead to talk about “The Takeaway’s” flippant treatment of kids’ reading suggestions for President-Elect Barack Obama. Host John Hockenberry has the hardest time trying to avoid making fun of the kids’ obvious, non-sensical, or even [...]

I’m not sure where it wants to take me

In the last week or so, I’ve finally started to give PRI’s morning news show, “The Takeaway” a chance. Originally, I thought it was going to be the PRI answer to NPR’s “Bryant Park Project”, but it’s not. While I don’t think I would want it to try to be, it still seems to come [...]