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12 Media Professionals on Twitter Who Rock The Planet

2morrowknight | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Ed Schultz, Betty Nguyen, Rick Sahchez, Media, Olivia Zaleski, Twitter, Stephen Colbert, Tanya Acker, Media Analysis, Reza Aslan, Carlos Watson, Media Professionals, Media Observer, Social Networking, Arianna Huffington, Antonio Neves, Huffington Post, Maegan Carberry, Stephen Colbert as the Riddler, Tweet, Comic Vine, Twittering, Comedy Central, Colbert Nation, Abiola Abrams, Daily Beast, Hbo, Vh1, Bet, Media News

If you're a media observer like myself, you not only follow the hot trends, and follow the new and emerging technologies, but, you also follow the people whose and body of work permeate the social landscape.

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Anthony Woods, Gay Black Iraq Veteran, To Run For Congress

The Daily Beast | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Garamendi, Anthony Woods, Congress, California, David Paterson, Daily Beast, Ellen Tauscher, San Francisco, Joan Buchanan, Mark DeSaulnier, Sacramento, Politics News

Insurgent congressional candidate Anthony Woods' life story reads like Aaron Sorkin wrote it--he's a gay, black Iraq veteran with a Harvard degree. He...

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Kiss Her Fat Ass? No Thanks

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Meghan McCain, Fat, Michelle Obama, Weight Loss, Laura Ingraham, Cindy McCain, Daily Beast, Media News

I have a dream that my sisters will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the size of their jeans, but by the content of their character and the quality of their work (or lack thereof).

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Harvey Milk Lives -- in Albany

Jim Luce | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Spanish Harlem, Roosevelt Island, COBRA Legislation, Mike Bloomberg, Disabled, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Jewish Progressive, Albany, Transgender, Gay, Jonathan Bing, Rainbow Flag, United Federation of Teachers, Bisexual, Micah Kellner, Millionaires’ Tax, Talking Points Memo, Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Education, www.micahkellner.net, Gay Agenda, Harvey Milk, LGBT Seniors, New York City, Daily Beast, Carolyn Maloney, Gay Marriage, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Lesbian, Harlem, New York Post, Bill Thompson, Joel Klein, New York Times, Peter Grannis, The Mayor of Castro Street, New York State Assembly, Huffington Post, Chuck Schumer, New York University, Wheelchair-Accessible, New York, Politics News

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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Now Up For Auction: One Virginity

Carey Polis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

By selling her virginity, Natalie Dylan is proving an already obvious point: virginity is still considered something of value, money aside.

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Reading The Pictures: Dana's Shine(r), And More

Michael Shaw | Posted 01.16.2009 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Microphone, Hans Blix, Press Secretary, Bush Iraq Farewell, Islamic Cartoons, Iraq, Dana Perino, George Bush Sr., Shoes, Al-Rasheed Hotel, U.N. Inspectors, Bush, Daily Beast, Media News

Beyond evidence of the lingering indignity of Bush's Iraq farewell, I wonder if there might have been nearly so many tight close-ups if it was Fleischer, McClellan or Snow who got popped in the eye.