Saturday, January 15, 2011
A quiet day at sea with two good lectures, Martin Bell, a
former BBC correspondent and Member of Parliament spoke on war reporting and
how it has changed. In particular now
that reporters are targets, we receive only information from embedded
reporters—that is only one side of the story.
In addition reporters are anxious to report a story—that it, to make a
narrative even where the connections are not known. We no longer know what is happening, he said,
and this is especially problematic when 90% percent of casualties are civilian,
not military.
Steven Rivelino spoke on five trends in Broadway production
which can be summarized as while formerly a great show was made into a movie,
now movies are made into shows as are musical life work (Mamma Mia).
I walked a mile today and have been pretty much sticking to
the spa menu which is tasty and sufficient.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Port Everglades, the port of Fort Lauderdale is utilitarian
like all ports. The weather is lovely—perfect
summer weather, the kind we do not have all that often in summer.
Internet is really, really slow on the ship—twenty-four minutes to post a blog entry which I had already
written. and I could not get it to transmit a photo so no pictures from here on
out unless we are at an internet café. I
will try to post one now of the Empire State Building in Curnard red.
Not such a great shot. Sorry.
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