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Gwen Ifill’s Book Makes Her Impartial? - Much Ado About Nothing

By Sharon Kyle • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Sharon Kyle
All this talk on Fox News about Gwen Ifill’s objectivity being compromised because she has a soon to be released book entitled, “Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” sounds a lot like much ado about nothing.
I did a little searching and found that PBSs Jim Lehrer, moderator of several consecutive [...]



For 33 Years, “Live, from New York…It’s Saturday Night”

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Features, Lead Story

This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane [...]