by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Film, TV & Theater
If a news station discovers there have been two local shootings, but they only have the resources to send one team at that precise moment, how do the producer, assignment editor, and reporters decide which murder to prioritize? How does the victim and culprit’s age,...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater, History, War & Military
This is a memoir of one man’s experience during the Vietnam War, beginning approximately April of 1966 and ending April of 1975 with the fall of Saigon. It is a beautifully told story by a cameraman with 10 years of experience in Japan who wanted to become a...
by Don Messerschmidt | Feb 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
“Ted Conover has ridden the rails with Hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA” reads the book’s cover blurb. It’s all about going deep and spending time getting the story, then turning it...
by Howard Leighton | Nov 9, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), NW Author, Reference
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Oxford University Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook, Audible Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] What a perfect book to have read during the close of the 2016...
by Norman West | Nov 8, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Prometheus Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Amazon | iBooks[/alert] Everyone knows about liberal media bias. But is media biased? Larry Atkins says yes, but in ways that are not always partisan or...