Doon Valley Journal

Anyone old enough to remember the Vietnam War will recall the infamous My Lai massacre. It was a seminal event in the history of that war because of its effect on public support for U.S. involvement there. Millions of Americans who, until My Lai, had supported or wavered in their support for the war turned [...]

It’s nearly impossible to escape mention today of the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s historic first step onto the lunar surface. Television, radio, newspapers and online portals are overflowing with anniversary stories and tributes to the men and women with the “right stuff” who made it possible — on Earth and in the skies. (By [...]

There were many influences on my choice of journalism as a career, but one of them was surely Walter Cronkite.
Cronkite was the avuncular, articulate and dispassionate TV news anchor who, for an entire generation of North Americans, acted as narrator and guide through the most momentous events of their time. During an era when television [...]

Times change. Young reporters grow old(er). Blonde hair makes way for grey. And ’80s mustaches get, well, left in the ’80s.
Here’s one of my first TV stories. I was freelancing for a show called World Report, a religion current-affairs program produced in Washington, D.C. by NC Broadcast News. It aired across the United States on [...]