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They held out no hope for a fuller explanation in the future. "The brain works on energy and energy illumines reality," the British novelist Colin Wilson wrote. The unfortunate trend in local news is shorter and shorter stories, with newscasts "stacked" with twenty or thirty tapes--tell the day's bad news quick, quick, and even more quickly. Get the top news stories from news daily for all your news needs.
Why are feature stories vanishing from TV news broadcasts? The public speaker, television feature reporter, and movie maker are storytellers.

I reported on the phony felon purge in Britain's Guardian and Observer and on the BBC while Gore was still in the race, while the count was still on. The looks on these children's faces when they saw THEIR special bicycle was, as the credit card ad says, priceless.

My phone rang often with a viewer telling me, "I rush home to see your stories every day." I received hundreds of letters with messages such as, "I've lived here all my life. The term "seasoned reporters" is rarely heard. "We've sort of given up being independent on our own."

newspapers and the vast majority of television news programs ignored the story even though it came at a critical moment just weeks before the election. My queries concerned the timing of the exclusive Dec. The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.

The newsroom has become a kindergarten. The New York Times's explanation of its decision to report, after what it said was a one-year delay, that the National Security Agency is eavesdropping domestically without court-approved warrants was woefully inadequate. These were stories of people who would never be seen on a TV news broadcast except that my photographer and I decided to do a story about them.

Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln wearing a flight suit ... We were allowed to replace it with this short summary. Younger reporters, with their eyes on the next job, rarely stay with a station long enough to understand local issues. In an e-mail uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove's right-hand man, gloated that "no [U.S.] national press picked up" a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate scheme to challenge the votes of thousands of African Americans in the 2004 election. Note: Our website has over 30 full articles posted from the New York Times. A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations". "To the dull mind all of nature is leaden. is dying. Solid reporting, beyond the easy, sensationalist fare, requires independent thinking and motivation.

While almost all the claims would eventually prove to be false, the drumbeat of misinformation about WMDs went virtually unchallenged by the media. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. I had no idea what you showed us today even existed." These viewers appreciated being told they lived in a community with good people around them who were making tangible contributions.

They ask questions of administration officials because there are always questions to ask, then write their story and go on camera (if they're a TV reporter) and report what that official said. "People say they want more positive stories, but when we tried that we lost viewers (which translates into lost advertising revenue) to our competitors," a TV news director friend mentioned to me recently.

"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public. It's time, I believe, to build an information hi-rise that includes the best that's in us as well.

Some structural engineers have said that one serious mistake has already been made ... For more reliable news articles suggesting a major cover-up of 9/11, click here.

11 is inadequate, some of the nation's leading structural engineers and fire-safety experts are calling for a new, independent and better-financed inquiry that could produce the kinds of conclusions vital for skyscrapers and future buildings nationwide. I held fast to the belief that a balanced and fair newscast includes stories about the people who are making a difference in their community.

The're soft. And I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency. The people in sales told me, "Viewers will lose interest, we'll lose ratings, and we'll have to lower our sales charges to advertisers if we can't continue to deliver the audience our clients are paying for."

Every person or nation has a story.