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The Man Whom the Cats Follow

pauline — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:48:10 +0000

I’ve been on the road with a Consumer Reports Health project for more than seven weeks. We’ve filmed almost every day, and I’ve kept up with the video production as best as I could. As it write this blog, there are 49 videos on the Cover America Tour website!

Of those videos, I think I have a favorite: Dave of Asheboro, North Carolina.

This 64-year old used to do IT work for the military, then put in a few decades at a very well-known “global consumer goods” company. After 42 years he says, he was let go, and his retirement benefits went with the job. But Dave didn’t have the luxury of going into early retirement. At 64-years-old, he had to go into the job market looking for a full time job with benefits that would cover himself and his wife until she becomes eligible for Medicare.

We all know that life throws some blows at you sometimes. But this Ronald Reagan-loving Southern Grandpa says his health care woes are making him lose faith in our political system. I wonder how many other Americans are starting to feel the same way. We’re sure meeting a lot of them on this trip.

bye-bye berkeley

pauline — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:32:32 +0000

For those of you who haven’t heard, I kind of suddenly picked up and moved to New York City about a month ago. I took a production job with NPR’s new web-focused morning talk show, The Bryant Park Project. That means I won’t be too active on my personal blog, but I’ll be posting regularly on the NPR blog. Watch out for the audio slideshows shooting down the page – a lot of them will be produced by yours truly.

introducing the analog multimedia journalist

pauline — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:27:32 +0000

i shoot film, and still use minidiscs. stay tuned to find out why.