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 December 2011

The GOP Presidency

December 17th, 2011 No Comments

I must confess: I don’t like Newt Gingrich. He’s an insufferable bore. He talks too much. He has an opinion about everything, none of it conciliatory. Most of it in fact is irrational. He is not what anyone might consider to be a deep thinker. While Barack Obama demonstrates leadership abroad, Gingrich is pursuing worn-out [...]

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Remembering Pearl Harbor

December 8th, 2011 No Comments

We seventh graders who lived on December 7, 1941 will always remember the Day that Will Live in Infamy, marking the day of the Japanese’ surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. I can never forget the time when several Los Angeles policemen escorted several of my Japanese-American friends in tears out of our classroom to be [...]

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