Quote of the Day

"The best one was the free one."

~V. Diehl, after visiting the Newseum and Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

"Go, Mommy!"

~K. Diehl, to me, after watching a Newseum video about reporters covering 9/11.

The piece was a stirring testimonial to the role of the press in being there to cover disasters, emergencies, etc. She was referring to the fact that I used to be a reporter. I quickly explained that the East Hartford school board and police logs involved little such risk.

She and her sister also had to listen to my rant that corporate layoffs have so decimated the press corps that such reporting capacity is sadly much diminished.