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That’s especially true about their reporting on Covid-19 and the outcome of the presidential election. Something else, which is related, is that the mainstream press has decisively stepped up to the plate when it comes to fighting misinformation and conspiracy theories, even more assertively than they already were. or abroad that doesn’t get enough attention? “What can never be appreciated enough is the selflessness and bravery on the part of reporters who risked everything to ensure that the rest of us knew the true nature of the grotesque attack on our democracy and Constitution this week. But the campaign’s communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, told me that I should absolutely go back for my last year and then they’d find a place for me in the administration. After we won, I asked about joining the administration without finishing my degree. Then I interned for the Obama campaign’s press office in Chicago, and eventually took time off from school to keep working there. After volunteering for Congressman Miller’s campaign every day for over a month, his finance director gave me an internship. State in 2006, a congressman I respected very much, Brad Miller - who later turned out to have been extremely prescient about the financial crisis - was challenged by a demagogic clown, who in many ways previewed the kind of politics that Trump came to represent.
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How did you get your start in your career? “When I was a sophomore at N.C. after working remotely in North Carolina for the general election.” Then we’re watching two Oscar-winners back to back: ‘The Rock’ and ‘Blades of Glory.’ Soon after, we’re moving back to D.C. from the Grecian Corner, my family’s favorite restaurant in Winston-Salem, N.C. How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom? “My girlfriend and I are getting a late curbside takeout dinner around 4:37 p.m.