Monthly Archives: January 2010
Stalking Tiger
Today’s Images piece, in The Washington Post, is about celebrity, celebrity scandal, and the fall of Tiger Woods. It looks as if I’ll be on MSNBC tomorrow morning, around 8:30 a.m., to natter on about this subject.
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Talking about Haiti…
The Haiti story touched a nerve, it seems. I spent some time with two journalists from Canal+ today, for a segment which airs in France on Sunday. And tomorrow morning, I’ll be on NPR’s Tell Me More, around 9 a.m
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Haiti and the Media
My story on the images coming out of Haiti led to an invitation to discuss news coverage of the catastrophe on The Takeaway, a morning radio news and call-in program based in New York. I was joined by Natalie Hopkinson, … Continue reading
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Watching Latrobe
WETA will premiere a new documentary about the great, but often neglected architect Benjamin Latrobe, tomorrow evening. I wrote about Latrobe’s masterpiece, the Baltimore Basilica, after it was renovated in 2006. The film is a good primer on what the producers call … Continue reading
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Thinking About Haiti
Since the war in Iraq began, I’ve been looking at and writing about media images of death and destruction. The images coming out of Haiti strike me as more graphic than most newspapers have been willing to print in the … Continue reading
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