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confessions of an ambulance chaser--matters of the heart and a twisted chance encounter with Roman Polanski on a dark Parisian street

12:38 AM Tue, Sep 29, 2009 |
Mike Watkiss

I had gone to Paris in pursuit of the woman I loved. We had quarreled. She got on an airplane and jetted off to France to stay with one of her beautiful model friends. I was desperate and deranged.
I first made a call to a friend of mine who worked for a U.S. Senator and begged him to help me get a passport on the quick. I was motivated and in short order I made to Paris.
And it was there one night while I wa...



confessions of an ambulance chaser--The Polygamy Tours--Scams and Scammers

11:35 PM Sat, Sep 26, 2009 |
Mike Watkiss

FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop has called the new narrated bus tours through Hildale Utah and Colorado City Arizona a "scam".
And after that tour of the YFZ Ranch that Willie gave a clueless Oprah Winfrey earlier this year, it's pretty clear that Willie knows all about "scam" tours.

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confessions of an ambulance chaser--good journalism and a booze soaked cocktail napkin

2:27 AM Sun, Sep 06, 2009 |
Mike Watkiss

The best journalism I've ever written was on a booze soaked cocktail napkin. Call me old school but for the most part I think the so-called "new media" sucks. It's just a fancy label from bad t.v. and bad reporting. More and more media corporations would rather hire 21-year-old dumbasses to shot, edit and report the content of their newscast, never mind that most of that crap they produce makes bad youtube look like "Harvest of Shame." ...