Author: |Posted: 11:08 am on 30/06/09
Category: World News Blog
Running round LA for the last few days covering Michael Jackson’s death, I’ve been amazed about how polite, pleasant and accommodating the LAPD have been.
They might not have told us all the details of their investigation (although they seem to obligingly leak quite a lot of info) but they have been doing their best to let us cover the story.
Author: |Posted: 4:43 pm on 11/05/09
Category: World News Blog
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Is there nothing that Barack Obama can’t do effortlessly well? This weekend he’s had a lot of praise for his comic timing as he pulled off a very assured performance at his first White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Traditionally the president makes a comic speech. Some do better than others – and Obama was one of the better ones.
Much of the audience was made up of the Washington press corps. But they loved it when the president started poking fun at their supposed bias toward him, saying: “Some of you covered me – all of you voted for me.”
Most of the journalists in audience had given the president a pretty glowing report card after his first hundred days and he had some pretty good lines about that landmark:
Author: |Posted: 3:19 pm on 24/04/09
Category: Snowblog
Perhaps inevitably, my final highlight from the last 20 years is from the day an African American man became president of the United States.
I was out on the streets early in the morning encountering the people from near and far who’d come to share in the moment.
- See the whole of Jon’s first show as main presenter, on 24 April 1989, here.
