The Fromson File

Reporting, analysis and commentary on current and historical events by Murray Fromson, veteran journalist and professor emeritus at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication.

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Entries from September 2009

The End of the Line

September 8th, 2009 1 Comment

Not in many years has television given the American viewing public an example of as impressive a documentary as Home Box Office did Monday evening with the airing of “The Last Truck: the Closing of a GM Factory.” It was absent the voice and presence of a prominent network anchorman or voice-over narrations by another [...]

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Stand Up, Mr. President!

September 4th, 2009 No Comments

The United States has never before had a Foreign Legion like the hired guns the French used as enforcers during the days when the tri-color flew over their colonial empire in the 19th and 20th Centuries. They were soldiers of fortune, cherry-picked from some of the most ruthless military resources anywhere in the world. In [...]

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