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A Journalist’s Dilemma: The Conundrum of Conscience
Much has been said and written recently about the role and importance of journalism and journalists – and the news media in general – to be truth tellers, to be…
Read MoreThe Tunnels and Other News You Can Use
In 1962, two competing networks – NBC and CBS – subsidized Germans seeking to tunnel under the Berlin Wall. The West Germans had one goal: to free their compatriots on…
Read More“Carrie Bradshaw” loved to buy expensive shoes. Sarah Jessica Parker, not so much.
“Carrie Bradshaw” loved to buy expensive shoes, but the actress who played her? Not so much. Sarah Jessica Parker, contrary to what you may think, is not a shoe horse.…
Read MoreThanksgiving: Pearl Harbor, 1941, and 75 Years On
Three score and 15 years ago, our country was deeply divided. There were the isolationists and the interventionists, the former insisting on an America First that turned its back on…
Read MoreMissing Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill, the PBS News Hour co-anchor who died far too soon Monday at the age of 61, arrived in the Prince George’s County, Maryland office of the Washington Post…
Read MoreIn Praise of Baseball…and America
Let us pause during the madness of this presidential election season to praise the Chicago Cubs, baseball and America. Sure, I would have preferred to see my beloved Nats go…
Read MoreA Week to Remember African American Raiders at Harpers Ferry
One hundred and fifty-seven years ago this week, mayhem ruled the streets of Harpers Ferry. Late on the evening of Oct. 16, John Brown and his band of 21 raiders…
Read More“Cheaper by the Dozen” and the Tyranny of Technology
People of a certain age, or Turner Classic fans, may recall this 1950 film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as the time-efficient parents of a dozen kids. In real…
Read MoreThru the Glasses of: Gene Meyer
I am having a bad case of writer’s blog. Just kidding. But, I hope to keep these blog posts reasonably light, in keeping with the headline I just dredged up…
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