susanharrow | August 29, 2005

Reviving an old radio show called, “This I believe” NPR’s Morning Edition has asked for essays on beliefs that guide your daily life. Author Rick Moody writes, “I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me.”

I feel the same way and do the same thing. Here’s something I believe: I can change anything in a moment. Anything can change in a moment. This moment is all we have.

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susanharrow | August 22, 2005

Yesterday I attended Joe Ranft’s memorial service with my sweetie, who used to work at Pixar with Joe on such films as Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. Joe was always generous and kind to my sweetie and to me – and it turned out that he was that way with everyone.

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susanharrow | August 19, 2005

I adored Peter Jennings. He loved his work. He loved his colleagues. He loved his family. It showed.

On The Larry King Show tribute to Jennings they aired clips showing him diligently checking the accuracy of stories, rewriting the news he was to speak, keeping his colleagues on track–his track.

Jennings was no talking head. He wanted to control every word that came out of his mouth because he knew how important it was to communicate directly to his audience as precisely as possible. Something else I admire: he didn’t pretend he didn’t have a bias.

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susanharrow | August 8, 2005

I was so excited. I had been interviewed by the New York Times and I ran to the news stand to get the paper to see my name in it and read the illustrious article. Shock. I read my quotes, my ideas right there in the first few paragraphs–but they were attributed to someone else.

At first I thought that there was a mistake and read the whole article searching for my name. But there was nothing. I had talked to the reporter for an hour. He had taken diligent notes (lots of tap tapping on the computer), said he had a lot of good information, that he could use my quotes–and would.

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Tags: media experience, misquoted in the media