for a swim. After a few minutes, he was struck something that jarred him so much it gave him "instant whiplash." He struggled out of the water. “Something struck me from behind. I’d never been hit like that before. It was pretty jarring," he told CBS Boston. “That’s when my daughter said to me, Daddy, how come your back is all bloody?” Fitchburg had a big cut down his back. With serious chest and back pains that persisted through the night, Fitchburg decided to go to St. Elizabeth’s Medical…
situation where Edward R. Murrow’s reputation is always in black-in-white because of this. Edward R Murrow’s career has been lead and powered by his integrity, although it sometimes gets him in trouble. On one certain broadcast that the head executive of CBS, William Paley, didn’t want Murrow to do, decided to give him a special offer, “There's a Knickerbocker…
The discipline of forensic science has been under fire for quite some time now, and one can say that it is completely justified. Fraudulent and incompetent analysts, such as Annie Dookhan, have performed investigations in flawed crime labs, like that of the Baltimore crime lab, and through this process, have imprisoned the innocent, just as Cameron T. Willingham was falsely convicted. Issues occurred in all of these instances that allowed for the devaluing of the field of forensic science. If…
island in the Pacific Marshall Islands. The construction of this bomb was one of the most important events in 1950 because it showed the world our superpower. 1951- Color TV introduced The first colored TV commercial was broadcasted by CBS on June 25th, 1951. CBS…
more boring, but a 5th grade teacher found a way to put the spotlight on one of his lessons the kids took part in. Now, the substitute teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Maplewood, New Jersey, has some people fuming over the class activity. CBS New York reported the school in the South Orange Maplewood School District is under fire for having children take part in a lesson about slavery, which included a mock slave auction where a child was sold to the highest bidder. Some parents were…
people in our society. Big Brother is a reality TV show that gathers up its contestants in a camera covered mansion where there every moment is recorded and at the end the last remaining houseguest receives the grand prize of $500,000. In July of 2000, CBS launched the first season and it averaged around 9 million viewers over the summer (Wieselman). I will examine how Big Brother continuos casting of realty Tv stereotypes is done purposefully by producers in order to have drama filled…
The tactics used in the video Did an FBI Sting Operation in Vegas Cross the Line? (CBS, 2014) and the article Who’s the Predator? (Rogers & Stone, n.d.) represent the future of catching criminals in two ways. First it shows how using modern technology can help catch criminals. Almost everyone depends on the internet for communication. That is why the FBI agents who turned off the internet to the room of the illegal gamblers in Las Vegas were able to gain fast and easy access. The criminals…
Later that year, on November 23, 1986, the popular CBS television program 60 Minutes aired a report titled “Out of Control” highlighting the case of Kristi Bardosky. She alleged that her Audi 5000 suddenly surged forward in her garage, killing her young son, Joshua (Dezenhall & Weber, 2007). During the report, CBS showed a clip of a driverless Audi lurching forward on its own. What viewers did not see was a canister…
Altschul? Beautiful Serena Altschul is a news reporter and a correspondent. Furthermore, she is also an actress. She is active in this field since 1990’s. Presently, she is a prominent figure among the media as the correspondent for CBS. She is involved in the show, CBS Sunday Morning since 2013. Additionally, she is also popular for working with the MTV. She served as the anchor and reporter for MTV News. Serena Altschul: Birth Facts, Family, and Childhood Serena was born in New York City in…
The Cartel is one of the most dangerous things in the world. “Members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) abducted five young men in Mexico and attempted to force them to carry out cartel operations. When the men refused, all five were beheaded” (ELI CRANE). It is a very big thing around where people in the cartel go that the people that live there should act good and try not to do anything wrong. They will do what they have to do for people to get their job done. Many people wonder…