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‘Lou Grant’ should required viewing for journalism students, even in 2021

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About 25 minutes into the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Baylor, I realized the Linda Ronstadt documentary was on CNN

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I haven’t been able to run this week because of some heel pain, so I decided to revisit a blog