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Stumpage Reports
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Saturday, February 01, 2003 :::
Time For Krispy Kreme Amid the Horror
Like everyone else I watched the coverage of the space shuttle crash today. Like everyone else, I thought it was a big tragedy. Like a lot of people, I remember the Challenger crash, and I even remember my parents waking me up when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I don't remember watching it on television, I was about six years old, but I remember my parents' excitement as they woke me up and told me to remember this.
Unlike most people, I'm gonna share a story about the one moment during the crash coverage today when I burst out laughing.
It was about 30 minutes after it happened. The guy who happened to be on CNN when it happened was juggling a bunch of stuff: trying to tell viewers what was going on, talking to local yokels who saw the crash, showing video, etc. Then for about 5 seconds the camera flipped to White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, one of my favorite news vixens the more competent journalists on television. Obviously, it was an error when they switched to her. She was standing if front of the White House stuffing a doughnut in her face. The last second her eyes kinda bugged out and she looked right at the camera, then they cut away.
I thought it was funny, I burst out laughing, and thats my space shuttle crashing story.
Quote of the Day:
But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box. As he perceived this fact it occured to him that he had never wished to come to the war. He had not enlisted of his free will. He had been dragged by the merciless government. And now they were taking him out to be slaughtered.
--- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Reading:
Archives & Manuscripts: Administration of Photographic Collections by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, Gerald J. Munoff, and Margery S. Long.
"Public History and the Academy" by Leslie H. Fishel, Jr.
::: posted by tom at 11:07 PM
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