Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 136, pages 435-437. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.NPR senior correspondent.Joined Fox News as a political analyst in 1997.Raised in the Episcopal branch of the Anglican church, of which is father, a boxing trainer, was a member. In 1958, his family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. He went on to graduate from Haverford College with a B.A. degree in philosophy in 1976.After college, he immediately began his tenure at The Washington Post, for which he worked from 1976 to 1999. During his tenure at the Post, he held several positions, including editorial writer, op-ed columnist and White House correspondent.Received an Emmy Award, in 1989, for television documentary writing.A day after being fired by National Public Radio (NPR) over comments he made about Muslims on "The O'Reilly Factor" (1996), he was given a new multi-year deal with Fox News.Has written for Fortune, Ebony and GQ magazines.Favorite songs: "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon , "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin .FoxNews.com columnist.TheHill.com columnist.His son and John Stossel 's son both graduated from Haverford College, Juan's alma mater.
The fascinating complexity of high school debate gives way to a portrait of the equally complex racial and class bias of American education in Greg Whiteley's riveting documentary. Initially a portrait of top-flight debaters from well-funded, mostly white schools-like nationally ranked Sam Iola and Matt Andrews of Highland Park, Texas-the film deepens when it changes focus to Richard Funches and Louis Blackwell from Long Beach's Jordan squad. While gifted traditional debaters in their own right, the two decide to challenge the usefulness of the jargon-filled, 400-word-per-minute style of modern debate (known as "the spread") by steering their debates toward issues of personal experience and dialogue. What is the use of refining an argument, they stress, when it does not affect the reality of a person's locale and particular life? Why must individual perspective and bias be masked...