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Here's my work as a TV critic, media analyst and guest host at NPR, along w/stuff on music, race, journalism, media, navigating the codes we all switch thru in life. Also: author of Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.

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TV critic, Media analyst and guest host at NPR, adjunct at Duke and Indiana University, dad, drummer, bassist, blerd. Author: Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. (see links to purchase)