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Amid all the chaos, noise, headlines, politics and, yes, religious debates, it’s sometimes easy to forget the gravity of what occurred that day. Terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans in unfathomable attacks on this nation’s way of life.
Thousands of people demonstrated outside California’s state Capitol this past weekend. I assume — and, yes, I know how fraught with potential disaster that course of action can be — that The Associated Press didn’t consider the rally any big deal.
LA Weekly recently published what is, in many ways, a stunning account of the life and death of Mike Penner/Christine Daniels. It’s an extraordinary, heartbreaking story of the Los Angeles Times sportswriter who killed himself in 2009 after a highly public transition from Mike to Christine and, finally, back to Mike.
In my 20-year reporting career, I’ve covered wildfires, floods and tornadoes. In 1995, I heard the explosion at the bombed federal building in Oklahoma City and raced that direction. Never, though, had I seen the kind of devastation that followed Hurricane Katrina five years ago.
The Washington Post ran an intriguing story Sunday about the apparent lack of state funding to provide Muslim chaplains in Virginia prisons.
One of my personal — and professional — weaknesses is my short attention span. After reading about 57 stories on the same subject, be it a clergy sex abuse scandal or a fight over where to build a mosque, my eyes glaze over.
It’s amazing how much information can be packed into a 950-word newspaper story — and how much can be assumed and left unsaid.
