There is no visible moon* under rain-clouded skies, Gwen Ifill has died and we are still finding solace in the music of Leonard Cohen.
* Knowing that tonight was to present the closest full moon in many years, I had been preparing with comparative photos each day showing the moon’s progression from the same vantage point. But today the weather changed.
This one feels like losing a family member. Gwen was a highly respected and trusted journalist working for years in print — Washington Post, NY Times, Baltimore and Boston newspapers, etc. — then in television at NBC and PBS. She wrote books and moderated presidential debates and more. For years we saw and heard her almost every night on the PBS Newshour and Washington Week. The image of news media would not be in disarray now if all of its practitioners met Gwen’s standard of truth-seeking and civility. Read on:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/gwen-ifill-meant-us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/business/media/gwen-ifill-dies.html