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.
How did President Donald Trump convince working class White voters he was their guy?
How did President Donald Trump convince working class White voters he was their guy? Journalist and author Jay Michaelson provides answers you might not have considered...
Gorski Civil Religion
America's Civil Religion Yale Professor Phil Gorski says we are not so divided as you might think. He argues there's more keeping us together than driving us apart...its something called our 'Civil Religion'
Future of Football
The NFL is still America's passion, but according to one sportswriter, the game's future is cloudy and its not just because of the concussion issue. Spencer Hall explains the surprising ways football must change if it wants to survive.
The Blog
Not Our Enemies….
That shrinking ragtag ‘caravan’ of refugees slowly hiking their way toward the southern border of these United States must certainly be carrying nukes, or nerve gas or some other weapon of mass destruction–otherwise why has our President sent thousands of troops to the border to keep us safe from this ‘invasion’?
Maybe I’m the one who is crazy but when I see the footage of these folks, all I can find are […]
Is this the moment that changes everything?
My dad used to tell the story of a popular radio host back in the days before television. He was good at his job, but most of all, Pops said he was known as a really nice guy.
Then one day after some kind of argument, Mr. Nice Guy lost his temper and fired his sidekick on the air. Dad said […]