Amazing CNN photojournalist dead at 59

Yesterday Margaret Moth died at age 59. She was a former CNN camerawoman. Given her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots, people didn’t always know what to think upon meeting her. She was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.

Margaret Moth sought out, even demanded, assignments in conflict zones. She barely survived being shot in the face in Sarajevo in 1992, only to go back as soon as she was physically able. The multiple reconstructive surgeries that followed, as well as the hepatitis C she contracted from a consequent blood transfusion, were mere obstacles she moved around.


“Dying of cancer, I would have liked to think I’d have gone out with a bit more flair,” she said with a laugh last spring.

More on this remarkable woman.

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Carnation milk – 65 Years ago

A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.

When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940’s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan.  The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with ‘Carnation Milk is best of all.’ She thought to herself, I know all about milk and dairy farms.  I can do this! 

She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black limo pulled up in front of her house.

A man got out and said, ‘Carnation LOVED your entry so much, we are here to award you $2, 000 even though we will not be able to use it!’

Carnation

Thanks Gene

Uh oh, another Jonco…

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Watch this episode about how the Comedy Central host became a one-man corporation and immediately availed himself of the many loopholes and tricks employed by Wall Street companies during the financial crisis. In a devastating social satire, Stewart uses one slick deal after another to turn a 1984 Volvo station wagon (“with a Pioneer tape deck”) into $4.5 million. And when his shady moves catch up with him, Stewart becomes the latest corporation to turn to the federal government.

Watch the clip here

Thanks Evan