by Michael | May 22, 2012 | Radio, Social Issues
Today the Colorado Public Radio program Colorado Matters told the story of Paul and Connie Sacco’s attempts to find their daughter, Aubrey, who vanished in Nepal two years ago. While most of the world only focuses on the climbers on Mount Everest, where four...
by Michael | Apr 3, 2012 | Photojournalism, Social Issues
Watching all the pageantry surrounding the NCAA basketball tournaments during the past couple weeks reminded me of this photo I took nearly 30 years ago during a photography internship at the Kansas City Times (back when the Star was Kansas City’s afternoon...
by Michael | Mar 20, 2012 | Radio, Social Issues
When someone claims they are serving a higher truth, perhaps it’s because they’re lying to you. That’s proven to be the case with a spate of recent journalistic and documentary works. Most recently it was monologuist Mike Daisey, whose one-man-show,...
by Michael | Jan 16, 2012 | Social Issues
“You don’t have to rely on a healthy body image or self respect anymore. Now that’s the power of Fotoshop.” So states filmmaker Jesse Rosten’s terrific parody of digital beauty, and the computer programming on which it...
by Michael | Dec 22, 2011 | Social Issues, Wildfire
Mount Carmel – One Year Later. On the day of the one-year anniversary of the Mount Carmel wildfire, Israelis visit the makeshift memorial making the spot where 44 police officers, firefighters, prison cadets, and firefighters were killed when they were overrun...
by Michael | Nov 12, 2011 | Resources, Social Issues
In a single day last week I saw the stacks of the San Juan Generating Station and the Four Corners Power Plant belching steam and coal smoke into the atmosphere above New Mexico, and then met a Navajo family who live below a power line fed below those plants, but have...
