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How MTV Defined a Generation’s Sound and Vision
One of my younger colleagues asked whether OG MTV really was as influential as we older folks say. Yes, yes it was. Not all the time, not by a long shot. But at its best, MTV married sound and video in a way that blew away Gen Xers like me. I don’t know about you, Continue reading
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Edward R. Murrow’s Powerful Buchenwald Broadcast
Eighty years ago this afternoon, legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow delivered one of the most important broadcasts of the 20th century, a report on his visit three days earlier to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. It took Murrow, as cool a journalist as they come, that long to process the horror. This 9-minute broadcast Continue reading
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Why history (and translation) rock
If you read one thing today, then it should be this. It’s fascinating. Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 