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By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyHere's good news! A quick tour of new and improved news-and-infotainment websites -- dozens of them -- reveals that women by the droves are successfully making the leap from old journalism to new media. Just the other day, as if to underscore this trend, a Business Insider article featured 25 media stars that have made that leap, and 13 of them -- 52 percent -- are women. Maybe that's not such a big number, but it looms large next to the pitiful number of women (six) named by the National Law Journal among the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade. Worse, the investor George Soros, the ...
Why Emily Bazelon Didn't Follow Up on Ginsburg's Abortion Comment
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyI keep reading about how "bizarre'' it is that there was no follow-up question after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Emily Bazelon, in an interview for The New York Times Magazine, that she originally assumed legalizing abortion would decrease the number of poor people having babies; she said she thought Roe v. Wade would answer "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.'' (There was a follow-up question from Bazelon, actually, but it was this: "When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, ...
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