We were just finishing lunch when our Nextel beep-beeped from the assignment desk. The urgency in Robert’s voice told us to be on the way before he even gave us the address… urgent enough for us to divert the last bites of our lunch to the garbage on the way out.
We were less than a [...]
Archive for March, 2008
It’s Not About You
March 28, 2008
School Dazed
March 6, 2008
Most of the students were easy to pick out in the gathering. They were the young people wearing red and black, the school uniform of Edison High School, which is where they were coming from when they joined the “rally”. The people who organized the “rally” wore in green t-shirts, one carried a bullhorn, and [...]
Bloody Monday
March 3, 2008
Put aside, for a moment, the ongoing debate over whether broadcast news is too crime heavy. This isn’t about that.
That said, “This just in…”
The first seven minutes of tonight’s newscast involves shootings.
Subtract time allocated for weather, sports and commercials, and about half tonight’s broadcast is devoted to guns fired in [...]
