Friday Follow: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Pepper Spray

The Takeaway

On Thanksgiving week, the big stories were the consumer’s holiday shopping start-up  – Black Friday, of course. The turkey was barely cold this year before family members were out the door to hit the box stores for the biggest deals of the season. In Washington, the debt committee was the most expected failure all year. And pepper spray went from a crime deterrent to an Internet meme. This week’s panel includes Jeff Yang, writer of the Tao Jones column for The Wall Street Journal and blogger for WNYC’s It’s a Free Country; Farai Chideya, journalist and blogger at Farai.com; and, special guest  Neil deGrasse Tyson,  director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and host of Star Talk Radio.

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