Arielman

George Murray, directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and award-winning TV producer, according to Edwin Newman, at NBC, produced CBS's coverage of both conventions in 1976. Walter Cronkite is currently a spokesperson for the "Drug Policy Alliance" and supports "its dedication to ending the War on Drugs and replacing it with a new drug policy based on science, compassion, health and human rights." One terrible story, a 16 year old waiting with his mother to talk to a judge in NYC lept out an opoen 10th floor window over a marijuana cigarette.
We should not blame the journalists, like the letter Mr. Murray had to write to our journalists in Vietnam, trying to get "the soldier's view" were canceled by "higher-ups" as was read at the eulogy for Mr. Murray by Mr. Newman in the UN Chapel.
I'm not sure what is wrong with the evening news but it might be the "promise" of embedded reporting which might also be canceled by "higher-ups" and by firings, if as reported by the former Manhattan Borough President and NYC mayoral candidate, Ruth Messenger, who states Bronx native and former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, (son Michael Powell once head of the FCC), was fired over his views for needed US involvement in Darfur. She had run against the incumbent, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who I read, also "canceled" the State Comptroller orders to "open the books" before 9/11. Perhaps the "malaise" is in leadership and not TV reporting. posted 05/06/2008 at 14:40:52

Ariel freed from a tree by Prospero would want us to know that here on the one wide world web (where's that Ariadne? Swallowing a mouse?) that the island is also called "Lesvos" (Michael Dukakis' hometown of Pelopi, at the bottom next to "Petrified Forest") and can be found on line here: http://www.lesvos.com/forts.html. He once visited a restaurant nearby here on White Plains Road. Maybe he should have went for a swim in Boston Harbor like Charles Dickens did? Ahem, Ariel of course has many manifestations in the collective conscious (Shelly's biography? a very fast car, an old motorcycle, etc.) Thank's Prospero for freeing me from that tree! posted 05/03/2008 at 10:07:08

Unbelievable. I once sold "Public Citizen" subscriptions for NY PIRG door-to-door one summer in grad school out of St. James, on Long Island on water quality issues, a concert by Pete Seegar at the end. Well, I'm glad someone is watching all these issues, "Public Citizen" couldn't get established in NY, started by but not connected to Ralph Nader. If the Democrats will take the leadership on these issues, Mr Nader wouldn't have to be the oldest Presidential candidate in US history, I think we might find. Then again looking at the number and size of these usurpations of the people's power I'm not sure anyone party can do that. We need some sort of "Power Rangers" maybe or at least a Congressional Committee, which the Founder's would have approved of. posted 04/27/2008 at 19:51:47

I have enjoyed Mr. Mudd's talks at the "History Channel" which are very educational and helps someone like me who works in "public archaeology" whose cousin George Murray I heard produced CBS' coverage of both the Republican and Democrat's conventions of 1976. His "uncle" my father was only two years older being the youngest of eleven and they used to laugh about it. My dad's Teamster local 's leader, a former UPS driver, Ron Carey, was president of the Teamsters Union before its current president, James P. Hoffa, who also writes on the Huffington Post. I read his sister is a judge. What a world! Lou Young one of CBS' "street reporters" in NYC and I went to high school together so I though I'd say I enjoyed the interview and congratulations on the book, I enjoyed Tom Brokaw's autobiography, unfortunately all I have is the story of Edwin Newman reading George Murray's eulogy in the UN Chapel, he read a letter canceling the crew trying to get the "soldiers view" in Vietnam, who once directed "Huntley and Brinkley: posted 04/27/2008 at 22:58:16

I remember after the Principals, one could take the US Federal civil service exam, called back in the 1970s, P.A.C.E. which tested fundamental understandings of US government and its base of law, i.e., Bill of Rights, etc., (today "PACE" (1992) is the national Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam, the National Federation of Paralegal Associations ("NFPA") adopted a position on regulation") which was eliminated under the Reagan administration. It was decided that each department would have its own requirements and award additional what had been points (out of 100) for previous service as a US veteran, and the test was eliminated, what from my perspective had been a source for Food Stamp supermarket pickups (armed in a car?) and other government agency employment. It's too bad these people in the White House apparently have never taken one, because it would seem they would not have passed either the old or the new "PACE" exams. posted 04/13/2008 at 12:44:20

George Murray was an award winning news producer (pers. comm.Edwin Newman) and won an award for a production called "Vanishing Americans" about native Americans in the US and the terrible conditions on some of the reservations. A similar sentiment I saw in the old photo album the grand-daughter of one of the founders of the American Civik Liberties Union (ACLU) showed me, a photo journal album of her grandfather's, at Harvard University, while we dug many test holes a stones throw from Princeton University, NJ, from travels out in the American southwest while undergrads I think she said, where the current "presumptive" Republican candidate for US President is from. I wonder what his record on those issues are?

Woops...that was Westmoreland vs. CBS (1982) as shown on the cover of "TV Guide" (Forbes)

"Depositions made by Rusk during the trial of William C. Westmoreland vs. CBS Inc., etal., in 1984 may also prove engaging. Rusk was a prolific writer, and many of the articles and book reviews he penned on international issues and foreign policy are included in these files."

Dean Rusk Articles and Speeches, 1951-1994 at Richard B. Russell Library archives. posted 04/10/2008 at 09:24:36

Sorry that was Westmeorelan vs. CBS (1982) on the cover of "TV Guide" posted 04/09/2008 at 20:45:24

A cousin a Korean War Army Captain worked for US Army Signal Corps making training films after his service in Korea and became a film editor at NBC, back when TV news was 15 minutes, the station promised "film at eleven" sent on motorcycle, rush delivered, developed and edited. One day at "Huntley and Brinkley" the news director was sick and they asked the film editor George Murray to be the director. They liked him and he went on to later produce NBC News. We heard he was in Houston and Saigon covering the Gemini program that led up to Apollo and the "police action" in Vietnam that turned into a war.

Noted television journalist Edwin Newman read a letter at his eulogy in the UN Chapel, he had died in Mexico City, where his wife, an Avon executive was introducing that product there I was told. I heard that the letter Mr. Newman read, a letter George Murray had to send to his crew in Vietnam spending months of investigation there at risk to life and limb to present the "soldiers point of view" in the Vietnam Conflict (never a Congressional declared war, referred to as "Madison Avenue's War") had to stop as it was canceled by "higher-ups" at NBC. ? General Westmoreland later sued the network for millions over alleged "body count" manipulation when NBC did a retrospective report on the Vietnam debacle, settled, for an undisclosed, unpublished amount. Does the military-industrial complex now own NBC? posted 04/09/2008 at 16:44:51

The Republicans began what had been described as a "sneaky" telephone registration drive in Mississippi in 1979, what some thought litigious. They had banks of phone callers using phone books and asked if they could send a card, and don't quote me here, if the card was not returned it meant you were a ?

I was working in the archeology of the impacts of the since built Tennessee-Tombigbee Barge Canal, as it was called, which tore up NE MS and channelized the Tombigbee River into Alabama and out to Mobile on the Gulf of Mexico. That river runs through "Tennessee" Williams home town of Columbus, MS where I lived for awhile on that phase of archeology nearby the Waverly Plantation, before moving on to Belmont, MS near scenic Tishomingo, where they found Aaron Burr had been after the duel with Alexander Hamilton, from the money available for Bicentennial research in 1976.

The Congress' choice, (or no choice) was between a new technology "energy island" for NYC (a few NYC archeology types worked there in MS where the then "new" Grand Dragon outed and to this day is followed by Southern Poverty Law Center) and barge canal (Tennessee River feeder) in the Tombigbee River, is apparently also for an unforeseen time when the Mississippi becomes useless from drought or deluge. I find it interesting that in Western New York I can dump a pail of water in the Allegheny river and it flows out in New Orleans, Louisiana. Huge drainage. posted 04/08/2008 at 19:06:42

When I first cut and pasted it from Wikipedia the asterisks (bullets) caused the posting to truncate yet was under the requisite number of words, so since it had yet to be moderated I thought the moderator would throw out the first and leave the second.

My point is that Bernadette Castro, a furniture heiress from NYC, known for some of the earliest TV commercials in many NYers mind, her jumping up and down on one of their bed/sofas in a long night shirt, an adolescent I think, was the GOP candidate against the "Democrat machine" once upon a time and she spent quite a bit of money. After she lost Senator Moynihan's "replacement" was the former First Lady, and one of the two women at the Watergate hearings, who ran against what the GOP decided was an appropriate candidate, a young inexperienced gentleman from Long Island, as if to say "you win".

Anyone can run is a myth we all share, and given the record spending in this campaign you have to wonder if America is going to the "heirs and heiresses". posted 04/08/2008 at 08:59:55

Living in New York State I watched Bernadette Castro run against the Senior US Senator at the time Patrick Moynihan, and do well on Long Island, I recall because I found myself sleeping on one of her convertible beds and reading a Robert Redford catalog that night there. Why she didn't run against Senator Clinton is odd, though appointed head of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in my state which working in I think should be split up instead of cloned in other public works depts (DEC etc). Senator Clinton made the Purple Heart stamp permanent and the State of NY has announced a Purple Heart Center to be built at the New Windsor Cantonment, where the troops overwintered after the treaty was signed with King George, just in case.

Maybe Bernadette Castro should be running now, it would seem more evenly matched, based on the Castro/Moynihan rivalry, both ran and won or lost a race for New York Senator. I'd hate to think we'd elect John McCain based on his similar sounding name John McComb architect:

Cape Henry Light (1792)
Montauk Point Lighthouse (1796) (commissioned by President George Washington, "earmarked" to keep it from falling into the sea)
Station Eatons Neck Lighthouse (1798)
Gracie Mansion (1799)
New York City Hall (1803)
Hamilton Grange (1803)
Old Queens building at Rutgers University (1808)
Castle Clinton (1808)
Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Vestry (St. John's Chapel) at Trinity Church (torn down in 1918) (Wikipedia)

road and dam under Yankee Stadium(s)! posted 04/07/2008 at 19:17:51

Living in New York State I watched Bernadette Castro run against the Senior US Senator at the time Patrick Moynihan, and do well on Long Island, I recall because I found myself sleeping on one of her convertible beds and reading a Robert Redford catalog that night there. Why she didn't run against Senator Clinton is odd, though appointed head of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in my state which working in I think should be split up instead of cloned in other public works depts (DEC etc). Senator Clinton made the Purple Heart stamp permanent and the State of NY has announced a Purple Heart Center to be built at the New Windsor Cantonment, where the troops overwintered after the treaty was signed with King George, just in case.

Maybe Bernadette Castro should be running now, it would seem more evenly matched, based on the Castro/Moynihan rivalry, both ran and won or lost a race for New York Senator. I'd hate to think we'd elect John McCain based on his similar sounding name John McComb architect:

* Cape Henry Light (1792)
* Montauk Point Lighthouse (1796) (commissioned by President George Washington, "earmarked" to keep it from falling into the sea)
* Station Eatons Neck Lighthouse (1798)
* Gracie Mansion (1799)
* New York City Hall (1803)
* Hamilton Grange (1803)
* Old Queens building at Rutgers University (1808)
* Castle Clinton (1808)
* Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard
* Vestry (St. John's Chapel) at Trinity Church (torn down in posted 04/07/2008 at 19:15:47

Living in New York State I watched Bernadette Castro run against the Senior US Senator at the time Patrick Moynihan, and do well on Long Island, I recall because I found myself sleeping on one of her convertible beds and reading a Robert Redford catalog that night there. Why she didn't run against Senator Clinton is odd, though appointed head of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in my state which working in I think should be split up instead of cloned in other public works depts (DEC etc). Senator Clinton made the Purple Hear stamp permanent and the State of NY has announced a Purple Heart Center to be built at the New Windsor Cantonment, where the troops overwintered after the treaty was signed with King George, just in case.

Maybe Bernadette Castro should be running now, it would seem more evenly matched, based on the Castro/Moynihan rivalry, both ran and won or lost a race for New York Senator. I'd hate to think we'd elect John McCain based on his similar sounding name John McComb architect:

* Cape Henry Light (1792)
* Montauk Point Lighthouse (1796) (commissioned by President George Washington, "earmarked" to keep it from falling into the sea)
* Station Eatons Neck Lighthouse (1798)
* Gracie Mansion (1799)
* New York City Hall (1803)
* Hamilton Grange (1803)
* Old Queens building at Rutgers University (1808)
* Castle Clinton (1808)
* Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard
* Vestry (St. John's Chapel) at Trinity Church (torn down in posted 04/07/2008 at 19:10:54

Yeah Lucille Ball's father sent in $30 once to see who they were and she had to live to regret it, from western NY State. Out there you can dump a cup of water in the Allegheny River and it'll flow out up over the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, some of them below the levee. What a drainage! God-forbid us to be allowed to look at hydraulic despotism in the past and where it might have arose, with its first tested civil service class in the world, in Mandarin, in China and compare other despotism (or lack there of in Katrina?). I would like to take this public opportunity to thank the Ball family. The head of the American Communist Party lived in very upscale Greenwich, Connecticut my grandfather told us, he from some of the highest tides in the world, Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, a bit higher than the English Channel. The tide is turning somewhere all the time thanks to the Moon. It should be an interesting Democratic convention a mile above the tide in Denver, Colorado. My cousin George Murray, who once directed "Huntley and Brinkley" (NBC) produced both parties' coverages for CBS in 1976. This will certainly be different from then in this new medium and communications era of the 21st century. So what did the FBI do with the "Operation Megiddo" $6 billion for the millennium? Start WWIII? posted 03/30/2008 at 14:36:15