Mis-Information on the Middle East on TV News
CBS Sunday Morning (a show I used to work on, and maybe the best news show on TV) ran a piece this morning in which CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward endeavored to explain the differences between Shia and...
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No God but The God I got an email this morning from Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Professor of Safavid history at The University of Minnesota. Let’s hear it for the web. I have not seen Rosemary Stanfield since 1980, when I...
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“We’ll be back with sports and weather after this….” Yesterday, we were talking about Videovolunteers and the idea of empowering local people with cameras, edits and training. This reminded me of a story. Stick with it, it has an...
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…”and when we come back, sports and weather…” In 1979, Iranian militants took the US Embassy hostage. They would hold it for 444 days.
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Thanks AK! The release of the British hostages from Iran brought back warm memories of how my TV career started. As it is Good Friday, I thought I would share them with you. I did not start off looking...
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