Joseph Kony is infamous for his atrocities and crimes against humanity in Uganda and neighboring countries and now the group Invisible Children is trying to make him famous. Kony is one of the most sought after war criminals and the hope is by bringing attention to him the whole world will engage and finally hunt [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HDNet’
The New Normal: Moose in Newfoundland
Posted: November 30, 2011 in Animals, Business, Canada, Colorado, Environment, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, United States of America, WildlifeTags: Canada, Collisions, Colorado, Greg Locke, HDNet, Moose, Newfoundland, St. John's, Straylight Media, Teletrends, USA, Vicky Collins, World Report
When I’ve produced stories in the past I’ve always been on location with my crew. But times in television, well sometimes, they are a changing. This story about the serious problem being caused by an overpopulation of Moose in Newfoundland was a collaboration between cameraman Greg Locke of Straylight Media in Newfoundland and me in [...]
The Greening of Greensburg
Posted: November 15, 2011 in Business, Children, Colorado, Economy, Education, Environment, Inspiration, Media, Natural Disasters, News, News and Views, Photography, Politics, Random Thoughts, Technology, Television, Travel, United States of America, Weather, WomenTags: Alabama, America, Bob Dixson, Dan Rather, Dan Rather Reports, Denver, Disaster, Environment, Green, Greensburg, HDNet, Highway 54, John Deere, Joplin, Kansas, Missouri, NBC News, Rural America, Sun Chips, Sustainable, Tornado, Tuscaloosa
Very early on the morning on May 5, 2007 I got a call from NBC News to hurry from Denver to Greensburg, Kansas. There had been a huge tornado and the town was devastated. Go! Go! When I pulled into the town six hours later I was stunned to see wreckage so complete that even [...]
Prostitution in Perspective
Posted: March 30, 2011 in Arts and Culture, Business, Crime, Economy, Education, Hawaii, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Photography, Politics, Random Thoughts, Sex, Television, Travel, United States of America, WomenTags: Bay Area, Brooke Taylor, Brothels, Carson City, Cathouse, Clark County, Dayton, Donna's Ranch, Economy, Hawaii, HBO, HDNet, Honolulu, Hustler, Illegal, Illinois, Las Vegas, Legislature, Los Angeles, Lyon County, Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Morality, Mustang Ranch, Nevada, Prostitution, Reno, San Francisco, Senator Harry Reid, Sex, St. Andrew's Priory, Storey County, Washoe County, Wells, World Report
When I was a senior at St. Andrew’s Priory in Honolulu I was selected by my high school government class to spend a week at the Hawaii state capitol observing the legislature. My assignment was to select one bill under consideration, research it and follow it through the session. I chose the effort to legalize [...]
Fear and Loathing in West Texas
Posted: January 26, 2011 in Children, Crime, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Random Thoughts, Religion, WomenTags: Arizona, Children, Colorado City, Construction, Eldorado, FLDS, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, HDNet, Hildale, Mormon, Polygamy, Saints, San Angelo, Sexual Abuse, Short Creek, Texas, Utah, Warren Jeffs, World Report
Just returned from San Angelo, Texas where reporter Carol McKinley and our crew worked on a story for HDNet’s World Report about the FLDS and how the polygamous fundamentalist Mormon sect is integrating into the local economy. If you recall, members of the FLDS picked up in 2004 and left their homes in Utah to [...]
Uganda’s Child Soldiers on PBS
Posted: November 17, 2010 in Africa, Children, Community Service, Education, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Parenting, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Terrorism, Travel, United States of America, Violence, War, WomenTags: Child Soldiers, Children of War Rehabilitation Center, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gulu, HDNet, Jim Lehrer, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, Newshour, NGO, Orum, Otuke, PBS, Sudan, Uganda, World Report, World Vision, Worldvision
As a journalist I’m used to working long days. Adrenaline keeps you in the game for 16 to 20 hours during breaking news and disaster coverage. You sleep for three hours then you’re back at it. But nothing prepared me for how exhausted I would be after just a couple of hours of listening to [...]
Uganda’s Child Soldiers: In Their Own Words
Posted: September 28, 2010 in Africa, Children, Education, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, Natural Disasters, News, News and Views, Parenting, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, Violence, War, WomenTags: Child Soldiers, Children of War Rehabilitation Center, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gulu, HDNet, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, NGO, Orum, Otuke, Sudan, Uganda, World Report, World Vision, Worldvision
As a journalist I’m used to working long days. Adrenaline keeps you in the game for 16 to 20 hours during breaking news and disaster coverage. You sleep for three hours then you’re back at it. But nothing prepared me for how exhausted I would be after just a couple of hours of listening to [...]
Acid Attacks Hit Home
Posted: September 6, 2010 in Acid Attacks, Africa, Crime, Health Care, Human Rights, India, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, Middle East, News, News and Views, Poverty, Random Thoughts, School Violence, Television, Terrorism, Travel, Violence, WomenTags: Acid Attacks, Arizona, HDNet, Juliette, kampala, Oregon, Uganda, World Report
NOTE: THE ACID ATTACK IN OREGON TURNED OUT TO BE A SELF-INFLICTED HOAX. In recent days there have been two brutal acid attacks against women in the United States, one in Oregon and one in Arizona. Many of you have read the story I wrote about a courageous acid attack victim from Kampala, Uganda named Juliette [...]
Beads, Bricks and a Better Life
Posted: August 26, 2010 in Africa, Children, Community Service, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, Music, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, WomenTags: BeadforLife, HDNet, kampala, Mukono, Uganda, World Report
It was the most amazing coming out party. A small village outside Kampala, Uganda, full of women, celebrating the miraculous accomplishment of rising up from life crushing poverty to become homeowners and landowners. They started singing and dancing in the morning and the festivities did not stop until midnight. One of the most joyful sights [...]
