Sam Donaldson

Lights, Camera, Educate!

Zachary K. Pearce | Posted 04.19.2012

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When the lights and camera are cued, not only is a news show taking place, but an outstanding education is in the making.

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Chippity Doo Da! How I Got My Daughter to the White House Selling Cookies

Cassandra M. Bellantoni | Posted 11.17.2011

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If you are facing losing your home, unemployment, divorce, kids going away, people dying, illness or any of the many ebbs and flows that life brings, do not let these events define you.

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Donna Brazile: 'Larry King Is A Hottie' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Donna Brazile has an easy explanation for Larry King's marital issues: he's a stud. Appearing on "Good Morning America" Thursday, Brazile said she's ...

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The Roberts Court Strikes Out: Legislators on the Bench

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Big business couldn't be more delighted by last week's decision in Citizens United.

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Young Voices in The Future of News -- Connection, Conversation, Community

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Woodward, Craig Newmark, Jay Rosen, Tina Brown, Sam Donaldson, Ann Curry, Newseum, Mark Zuckerberg, News Media, Facebook, Online News, Everyblock, Jav on Tech, Technology News

It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

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Sam Donaldson Spars With Liz Cheney Over CIA Torture Investigation (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Donaldson and Liz Cheney spiritedly debated the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether or not torture occurred during CIA...

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Monday's Late Night Round-Up: Miss California, Waterboarding, And Sam Donaldson Being All Crazy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 05.25.2011

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The late night hosts took on the Miss USA pageant last night with Jimmy Fallon saying the GOP found their VP candidate for 2012 and Jay Leno mocking M...

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Sam Donaldson: I Want To Ask Castro, Before He Dies, If He Killed Kennedy (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Asked to reflect upon the coming end of Fidel Castro's time and regime in Cuba, longtime ABC newsman Sam Donaldson had one last request: to be beside ...

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Caption Contest! Caption This Photo, Vote For Yesterday's Best, See Monday's Winner

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sam Donaldson goofs around with reporters on the red carpet at Ford's Theatre on the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln's birth. Donaldson recently a...

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Sam Donaldson To Retire After Four Decades At ABC News

washingtonpost.com | Howard Kurtz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whatever else he accomplished in his 41 years at ABC News, Sam Donaldson knows he'll be remembered mainly for his bellowing voice. "I guess it'll be ...

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Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

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Why I Called It for Joe Biden

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

The thrill of any debate comes in that one moment - and it almost always comes if you are patient - when one candidate finds a small opening and claims the evening.

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ABC Panel Tears Into McCain: Not Presidential, Age Should Be An Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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For John McCain, the panel discussion on This Week with George Stephanopoulos could not have been more brutal. Minutes after conservative columnist G...

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Sunday Watch: In Which Skepticism Revives (But Not for Everyone)

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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In terms of attention seized, McCain-Palin "won the weekend." Whether they won supporters is more doubtful. Judging from the top two Sunday shows, they didn't impress.

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Sunday Watch, 8-3-08: In Which David Gergen Collides with the Straight Talk Express and Walks Away from the Wreck

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Washington fights sound petty even when they are deeply consequential, and neither journalists nor politicians have discovered how to make them sound as dramatic and consequential as they deserve to sound.

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Sunday Watch: In Which McCain Is Not Greeted as a Liberator

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a delight to see Stephanopoulos nudge McCain to Iraq, getting at what is the most fundamental difference between the two candidates -- the grown-up test of independence from the Bush worldview.

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Sam Donaldson: Nothing Could Be Worse For The Press Than Bush Administration

New York Times/TV Decoder | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAS VEGAS -- No matter who wins the White House in November, the next administration is likely to be a lot more open to media scrutiny than the curren...

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Star Blogger Perez Hilton Discusses His Hillary Clinton Endorsement

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson interviewed Perez Hilton today about his Hillary Clinton endorsement and whether he thinks he played a role in he...

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Sam Donaldson's Digits In DC Madam's Black Book

Radar | Steve Huff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Once upon a time in D.C. there was a Madam named Debra. The boys under the Dome loved her milkshakes and they formed a line in her yard. Soon a scanda...

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Update: Sam Donaldson Was Not A DC Madam Client

Radar | John Cook | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Capriccioso, a Washington, D.C., blogger and sometime (now former) Radar freelancer, reported this morning that Sam Donaldson's phone number appea...

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