Eric Severide News Today

My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emot...

My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emot...

My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emot...

Psychics and numbers runners, i was looking at black women and crime and 20th century new york, want to get my hands on that. And another one about black women ons chain gangs by sarah haley in georgia. There are a couple neat books coming out that i cant wait to read. You are just a little bit obsessed. A tiny bit. I have been buying guilt books, completely forgot the name of a guy who wrote a book about poverty and housing that got rave reviews, these are guilt books about journalists doing si...

Editor’s Note: The Ardennes Offensive, famously referred to as the Battle of the Bulge, marked a significant German offensive on the Western Front during World War II, spanning from December

PASADENA, Calif. — Miss “Columbo?” Then you might appreciate Peacock’s “Poker Face,” a modern take on the episodic detective show that’s less whodunnit (that’s shown in the opening scene of each episode) and more “howcatchem,” as premiere episode writer/director Rian Johnson (“Knives Out”) calls the show’s formula of starting with

Hard core of integrity. he could absorb and reflect the thought and emotions of day laborers, airline pilots, or cabinet ministers and report with exact truth what they were. yet he never gave an inch of himself away. well, except for that last part i consider this a model for broadcast journalism today. i think people listening and watching are better served when they know a bit about the person doing the commentary. but i agree with the larger points here about what needs to be done by people ...

Let me finish tonight with the greatest broadcast news person of all time. i spent part of last week reading "not so wild a dream," eric severides autobiography. in it he describes his boss who was also his hero during the london blitz in the early months of world war ii. of the american journalists none reached the stature of edward r. murrow, whose physical, intellectual and moral performance in those deadly weeks is not likely to be equaled by any reporterial voice or pen in this generation. ...