Derek McGinty.com
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Ideas Matter More Than Ideology
My old man used to have a saying…. If it was easy…everyone would do it.
Derek McGinty is a journalist, an award-winning interviewer and a commentator. He got his first job on the air back in 1984 at WHUR radio in Washington DC. From there he went to WAMU-FM where he launched a nationally syndicated daytime talk show on NPR. By the end of the century he’d been a correspondent on the CBS broadcast Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel and HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
After two years in New York as anchor of ABC’s World News Now and World News This Morning, It was back to his hometown of Washington DC to anchor WUSA’s fledgling 7pm local newscast.
In all those incarnations Derek has believed that ideas matter more than ideology, so after leaving WUSA in 2015, he is launching this website in hopes of keeping the conversation going.
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Damn Redskins
Just when I thought I was out– they pull me back in. — The Godfather.
Trump Fans
President Trump rock solid support remains a mystery to some on the other side. How can people keep supporting this guy?, they say. Derek McGinty says the answer may be simpler than you think.
Culture Clash
Where Ideas Collide, Compete, and Come Out Smarter.
Greg Bishop
I'm still trying to figure this out. The NFL has been ravaged this season by injuries to some of its biggest stars. But my guest says in some ways we should have seen this coming. Sports Illustrated Senior Writer Greg Bishop explains its all a matter of physics.
Hitmakers
Hitmakers Also this one.... Why do we like what we like? And what's the difference between that song you can't get out of your head, and the one that fades into the background never to be played again? A new book explores the power of the Hitmakers and we've got the author [...]
The Blog
Trump the Gangsta President
It occurs to me that a lifetime of bullying staffers and swindling contractors has left Donald Trump uniquely suited to throwing his weight around as leader of the greatest nation on earth. And this is not a good thing.
Whereas other presidents felt constrained by tradition and presidential courtesy to negotiate with smaller nations basically as equals, President Trump feels no such compunctions.
Former Trump toady Michael Cohen described to congress how then-real estate […]
Jive Turkey
Now that all the Christmas and Thanksgiving turkeys have been consumed for yet another year… I think its time we faced facts America: Turkey is pretty terrible. To eat, that is.
I know…its blasphemy, right? The holiday Turkey is so American that eating it is almost a patriotic duty. But while we all grew up munching away on mounds of Turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas…why not put aside all the […]