![]() ![]() I couldn't get an entry level job at ABC News, so I came up with my own plan. I first started working as a reporter soon after graduating from college. I suppose that's just the way it is, but I didn't want the heroism, the heartbreak, the compassion, the negligence to just be forgotten, so I started writing about what I was seeing behind the scenes, the kinds of moments and conversations that never make it on television. The media moves on, and so do people's lives. ![]() I know we all like to say, "Oh, we could never forget such a tragedy." But the truth is tragedies are forgotten all the time. In those dark, difficult days in New Orleans, I started to worry that when the floodwaters receded, and the convention center was cleaned up, people would move on and forget what had happened. But it wasn't until Hurricane Katrina that I actually started putting it together on paper. In many ways, I've been writing this book in my head for the past 15 years, ever since I became a reporter. After many long months and many long hours of writing, my book "Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival" is in stores today. ![]()
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