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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

- Campbell Brown
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.

The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.

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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.