David Bloom was an NBC News reporter who died covering the Iraq War, in April 2003. I graduated with a degree in journalism from The Pennsylvania State University in May 1975. I earned a law degree from Temple University in May 1982. In 1982 I saw the movie The Year of Living Dangerously. It's one of my favorite movies. I suppose I never lost a desire to make my name as a journalist, someone who broke the BIG story. It's what I call my David Bloom complex.
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The other day David Gregory said to me: "Listen, Freedman, if you don't speak French, you're not going anywhere in this business."
On the first night in my darkroom, I made a set of small proof prints and pasted them into an album intending to give them to Freud before his departure. Fortunately, all the pictures came out well, . . .
Edmund Engelman, Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud’s Home and Offices, Vienna, 1938.
. . . and confident that my task would be . . .
Mark Landau, Terrorism and the Consulate.
. . . a genuine success . . .
Arthur Rubinstein, My Young Years.
. . . I proceeded on the following day to pursue my room-by-room
program of making a detailed photographic record.
Edmund Engelman, Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud’s Home and Offices, Vienna, 1938.
Here on the quiet page I’m master, just as I'm master in the darkroom, stirring my prints in the magic developing bath. I shuffle like cards the lives I deal with. Their faces stare out at me. People who will become other people. People who will become old, betray their dreams, become ghosts.
David Williamson, Peter Weir, and C.J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously.
The late comedian Steve Allen once said, "Perhaps the greatest pianist who ever lived was a cave man living in a cave in Europe 20,000 years ago. But we'll never know, because there were no pianos."
David Bloom was one of the great reporters who, speaking metaphorically, invented his own piano -- he created a vehicle (and a "vehicle") to actualize his special talents.
David Bloom will be remembered for his creation of the "Bloom Mobile," an Army tank recovery vehicle retrofitted by Miramar, Florida-based company Maritime Telecommunications Network, with live television and satellite transmission equipment so he could continuously broadcast reports as troops made their way toward Baghdad.
Bloom was traveling with the U.S. Third Infantry Division in Iraq when he suddenly died due to deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism. The David Bloom Award was established by the Radio & Television Association in 2006 to honor excellence in enterprise reporting. ABC World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff received the award in its first year.
There are those who create their own opera house according to their special needs and specifications.
There are those who create a law firm where Jewish lawyers can pursue their profession.
Then there a asymptomatic paranoid schizophrenics who create a blog that reports a fraud and racketeering conspiracy in real time (or so they believe!)
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