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June 2009
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I was having a conversation the other day with a 6 year old. So she and I were having a chat about an incident that happened to her at school. It was one of those unfortunate days, you know the girls were acting mean and cliquish. They didn't want to play with her. She first noticed it in class and then later, on the playground. The girls were playing a game and refused to include her. It hurt my heart just hearing this story. So I aske...
Just over a year ago an unidentified man lay in a Phoenix hospital bed--his body, head and face grotesquely swollen, covered with cuts and abrasions--his battered brain buried deep in a dark and unwavering coma.
Texas screwed up. I've said it before and I'm saying it again now. The raid on the Warren Jeffs' West Texas gulog was an infinitely avoidable mistake. (See earlier blogs: "liars, lawyers and media scum" / "Texas strikes back" and "Oprah--groveling for "access")
One week ago armed men in the Mexican state of Chihuahua kidnapped a 16-year-old boy named Eric LeBaron. We first reported this story on Monday morning after receiving a phone call from a very concerned relative here in the U.S. Needless to say, we get a lot of emails. Especially in the investigative unit. And between my colleague Gary Harper, our producers and myself, we try to eyeball every email to assess the viability of the stories that are being submitted. Every now and again we do get an email that is off color. Or an email from someone who either really likes us or really dislikes us. But the other day an email came to our attention with a title ...
I was about 15 the first time I ever saw a man get killed. It's an event that probably effected me in more ways than I care to admit.
Once upon a time as I sat in a tiny jail cell with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez, the man known as the "Night Stalker" looked me dead in the eye and said: "We're all evil." I once read that Diane Sawyer's career philosophy is as follows, "I don't read my good press and I don't read my bad press." See the thing is when you work on TV, there's a lot of good. And when people tell you how much they love you, it's easy to fall deeply in love with yourself. But then, there's the bad. And when it's bad, it is usually really bad. I've worked in this business now for a little over ten years and in t... One of the first blogs I ever wrote was entitled "....so you want to make good t.v?"
I was in Denver covering the trial of Oklahoma City bomber and mass killer Timothy McVeigh when I got the phone call from my mom. I'd never just abandoned a story in my life. But I did that night. I remember jumping in a cab in sort of an emotion... |
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