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The year was 2003, the summer between my seventh- and eighth-grade years at Falcon Creek Middle School. We were on our annual vacation visiting family back home in Upstate New
The year was 2003, the summer between my seventh- and eighth-grade years at Falcon Creek Middle School. We were on our annual vacation visiting family back home in Upstate New
There s been no shortage of stories for Colorado reporters to cover in the awful, awful year of 2020. But the media itself has been in the spotlight for plenty of major events during the past twelve months, too. Here are ten of the standouts:
Coverage of Black Lives Matter Protests
Demonstrations spurred by the May 25 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis erupted in downtown Denver a few days later. The vast majority of the events were peaceful, but a relatively small number of ruffians committed acts of vandalism that stirred more controversy. TV stations devoted hours of live coverage for nights on end, complete with helicopter shots of confrontations between police and frustrated citizens, and the results were viewed very differently depending on ideology. BLM supporters charged outlets with concentrating too heavily on destruction, thereby obscuring the actual reasons so many people had taken to the streets, while folks such as KNUS radio s Steffan Tubbs, whose documenta
understand, was sitting 50 yards away and they pushed you 100 yards and 300 yards, none of that was good enough. yeah, you know what? i wasn t at that stage where what steffan tubbs was going through with his group of veterans. the national parks appointed a golf cart to me to transfer veterans from the lower portion of the memorial up to the top portion and as we stopped half way up to allow the veterans to go visit some of their fallen brothers, you know, these guys just came out of nowhere and pretty much said, you know, you need to move and you need to get out of the shot and i really at that stage didn t say anything to them other than pay some respect to these veterans. this is their first time back in 70 years. and how dare you approach these veterans and hush them along. it was a disgrace. it was an absolutely disgraceful event that took part. i agree with you. how do you tell that group of people we have to finish an episode of hawaii 5-0 , break this up now. here s an e-