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Media Take Note: *This* Is How to Do a Dad Story
Posted on18. Jun, 2009 by Brian Reid.
Yesterday, my post detailed how the Today Show, a profitable arm of the largest company in the world, could not manage to produce a story on at-home dads with any depth or originality at all. So what *would* a deep, original at-home dad story look like? Probably a lot like yesterday’s USA Today piece on [...]
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All the Vasectomy News That's Fit to Print
Posted on18. Jun, 2009 by Brian Reid.
Since I’m a big fan about writing about vasectomies (hey! someone has to do it), I should point you to this week’s USA Today column on the subject. It’s kind of a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. The good news is that vasectomies seem to be on the rise, a consequence of the recession. (This [...]
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The Today Show Drops the Ball. Again.
Posted on17. Jun, 2009 by Brian Reid.
Full disclosure: I think that the men behind the New York City at-home dad group are wonderful guys. They are well-spoken, thoughtful and — as best I can tell — excellent fathers. Nothing I am about to say should reflect poorly on them. Also, full disclosure: the Today Show producers sometime show strokes of genius [...]