Part I: Katrina For the first time since Katrina, I visited New Orleans recently. As a jazz aficionado, I was thrilled to go there in 1968 when an Ohio friend wanted company on a sixteen-hour drive to look over Tulane … Continue reading
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So Brian Williams has been embellishing his resume with imagined derring-do. Is anyone really surprised? Long ago news anchors ceased to be seasoned reporters and became blow-dried pretty-boys and girls. UP reporter Walter Cronkite was in a B-17 over Normandy … Continue reading
When I worked for a news organization, you couldn’t help but notice that August was a funny time. Everyday of the year you worried that in the 12 to 18 hours between writing something and its appearance in print something … Continue reading