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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. former President George Bush visitis NH to open a new media center plus an indepth interview with former presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater And.sometimes what we think might be the ideal pet, isn't, We look at a very different kind of animal rescue operation. |
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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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New Hampshire has a new media center. The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication was officially dedicated last Thursday. A former U.S. President, two presidential press secretaries and other celebrities gathered at Franklin Pierce College in Ringe. As Producer Richard Ager show us, it was an opportunity for all to swap some political war stories and reflect on the role that journalism plays in our political system. |
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Soundup: Fitzwater tape 2 02:01:55 "Folks, we're talking with Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary to President Reagan and President Bush… Track: It was hands-on inspiration for some Franklin Pierce College students as they assisted on Sam Donaldson's nationally-syndicated radio program broadcast from the new Marlin Fitzwater Center. Soundup: Fitzwater tape 2 02;01:15 monitors "and that's when I came up with my old Kansas favorite 'drugstore cowboy' Track: Over two thousand guests visited the campus for the dedication of the center - named for the only press secretary to serve two presidents. Bite: Fitzwater Tape 3 03:01:40 I think it's a wonderful center that they're dedicating today, and it'll help the kids of this region and kids from all over the country who want to come here and study communications. Track: The 12,000 square foot facility has a television and radio studio, seminar rooms and an on-line journalism lab. Bite: Fitzwater tape 2 02:08:33 WELL CHRISTEN, HOW GOOD IS IT TO HAVE ALL-NEW EQUIPMENT, ALL UP TO DATE STUFF? It's really great because… Bite: Fitzwater tape 2 02:05:35 … …we never had this before. We never even had computers. We had to do it from our room, e-mail it to our professor who had to check it and recheck it and it was a big mess, and this saves so much time and it's so much easier, it's wonderful. Track: The center also has advanced computer-based editing suites. Bite: Fitzwater tape 2 02:10:34 SO YOU'RE LEARNING NOT ONLY PRINCIPLES OF JOURNALISM BUT ALSO A FAIR AMOUNT OF TECHNICAL SKILLS HERE, AREN'T YOU. Yeah, we learn how to edit on all these systems and most news places don't even have these systems. I went to my internship and they don't have an Avid system - they just have linear and I was just - 'oh that's easy' - but - so I'm learning how to use new cameras, new editing equipment. It's great - I can't wait to use it when I get out of here. Track: The Fitzwater Center also intends to involve neighboring communities. Fitzwater tape 2 02:17:50 We successfully applied for an LPFM licence and we just recently received the construction permit, so we'll be doing that shortly and we'll be able to broadcast to the Rindge, Jaffrey and Fitzwilliam area. It's my hope to bring folks from outside the college to come here and do the Rindge hour, and the Jaffrey hour and I've already talked to chambers of commerce and the Lions club and folks of that nature, and they're all excited about coming back to campus. Soundup: Fitzwater Tape 3 03:05:40 Pipers - Bush and Fitzwater walk in processional to front. Track: Sam Donaldson MC'd the dedication ceremony, and reflected on the role of press secretaries. Fitzwater tape 4 03:40:10 What we expect that they not do is not to lie. And like Marlin Fitzwater, Mike McCurry never lied. But unlike Marlin Fitzwater, he had it much more difficult. Much more difficult. Because when you get lied to, it's difficult to know what to say. But enough of that. Bite: Fitzwater tape 4 03:47:19 If we can teach one thing here at this center, I hope it will be that communication in this age of 24/7 news cycles and all crisis all the time broadcasts, and technology that amazes us with its capacity and reach; that communication is still in the end about human beings conversing with each other. And when it comes to political communication, we need to be more civil and more decent in the way we converse. Track: President George Herbert Walker Bush joked about his former press secretary working on the NBC show "The West Wing". Bite: Fitzwater tape 4 03:58:31 Marlin is there supposedly bringing balance to the program. When are you starting? Bite: Fitzwater tape 4 04:01;35 I guess I'm like any other president. Sometimes you get so darn angry at the press that you want to kill them. And Marlin would calm me down and make it very clear that they will have the last word, and you'd better calm down and go about your job as president, and he was absolutely right about that. Bite: Fitzwater tape 4 04:03:30 To all future students here at this Fitzwater Center, I would simply say that you could hardly do better than to study the quiet selfless example set by your namesake, this son of Abilene, Kansas. And then seek to emulate his example in your lives. Fitzwater tape 5 04:11:25 If the beginning of an education in communication begins with a man's physical world, let it begin on this mountaintop. And if all communication depends on our ability to transmit ideas from one person to another, let this center spark the intellectual curiosity, the enthusiasm and the personal integrity to make every student a beacon unto the world. It is my great honor to join all of you in helping to create this process on this campus. Soundup: Fitzwater tape 6 04:56:35 Ribbon cutting - and fireworks. Track: An old videotape served as the ribbon, and the Marlin Fitzwater Center was declared officially open. For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager. |
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Before the dedication ceremonies last Thursday, producer Richard Ager got a chance to talk with Marlin Fitzwater about the new center that bears his name. They also spoke about Fitzwater's career, which he wrote about in his book "Call the Briefing." |
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10:39;08 WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR A PLACE LIKE THIS? WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM TODAY, AND DO YOU THINK IT HAS CHANGED MUCH SINCE YOU BEGAN YOUR CAREER? 10:39:18 It has changed a lot. The most obvious sign is we call them communications departments ….it's not the same as all as when I first started. 10:40:03 10:45:06 ONE OF THE THINGS I FOUND FASCINATING IN YOUR MEMOIR IS HOW YOU WORKED FOR TWO DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS, AND CLEARLY YOU HAD TO MAINTAIN LOYALTY TO THEM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME YOU HAD TO MAINTAIN AN HONEST AND OPEN RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESS. AND I'M WONDERING WHAT WERE THE PRINCIPLES THAT GUIDED YOU AS YOU BALANCED THOSE TENSIONS? 10;45:30 10:45:31 First of all, your first loyalty is to the president….people have a right to know….allegiances to both sides…it is a tightrope, no doubt. 10:46:22 10:46:23 YOU FIND YOURSELF, FOR EXAMPLE, ADVOCATING FOR THE PRESS AT TIMES, TO SAY - I HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. 10:46:31 10:46:32 I would use the press shamelessly inside the White House. Often times, you would go into a meeting with the President and cabinet…the issue is how do you tell them…I've got 50 reporters down there - if they can do it, we ought to be able to do it. So that way worked. 10:47:10 10:47:11 YOU MUST HAVE FELT SOMETIMES LIKE AN AMBASSADOR BETWEEN THE TWO CAMPS. 10:47:16 10:47:17 There was a lot to that, and you've got to make sure - the hard part is that both sides trust you to be honest…everyday, your veracity is on the line. 10:47:39 10;47:40 AND EVERYDAY, IT'S PROBABLY EASY TO MAKE A MISTAKE WITHOUT KNOWING IT. I'M THINKING OF ONE OF THE STORIES THAT YOU WROTE ABOUT - YOUR POSITION ALLOWED YOU TO BE A WITNESS TO MUCH OF HISTORY IN THE MAKING IN THE MODERN ERA AND I'M THINKING OF WHEN YOU CALLED MICHAIL GORBACHEV A DRUGSTORE COWBOY. COULD YOU TELL ME ABOUT THAT? 10:48:00 10;48:01 Well that was a terrible mistake on my part. It was a bad mistake because it was calculated - I really thought that was a brilliant way. THAT'S A KANSAS EXPRESSION? It's a Kansas expression, and Gorbachev had been telling President Bush that he would reduce nuclear arms…the definition and the reason were lost forever. So it was difficult. 10:49:00 10:49:01 I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE RUSSIANS TRYING TO PUZZLE IT OUT - WHAT IS THIS DRUGSTORE COWBOY REFERENCE? 10:49:04 10;49:05 Well, I'm sure they did. They never did ask about it. And I think that's why - they were never sure of the translation. 10:49:11 10:49:13 ALTHOUGH LATER ON DURING THE BUSH PRESIDENCY, YOU DID MEET GORBACHEV AGAIN AND THINGS SEEMED TO BE OKAY BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU. 10:49:19 10:49:20 Well it turned out that I had a long relationship with Gorbachev because I met with President Reagan and he at several summits…later with Bush…he looked at me and said 'don't tell me you're the one they saved.' Sorry, I'm with you again. 10:49:47 10:54:21 LET'S MOVE ON TO THE BUSH PRESIDENCY. WHAT WAS THE HIGH POINT FOR YOU? 10:54:25 10;54;26 Well the Bush presidency was - had several high points even though it was only 4 years. The Persian gulf war…changed so much in the world…was beginning of this terrorism….took out Saddam's army in 100 hours. 10:55:32 10;55:33 BUT WE DID NOT TAKE OUT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HERE WE ARE WITH HIS SON'S PRESIDENCY REPLAYING THAT THEME. 10;55:41 10;55:42 Well what the terrorists of the world learned after that war was that terrorism was a way to challenge America. You couldn't do it with regular military and the way the weak attack the strong is through terrorism….at the time, there didn't seem to be a reason to go after Saddam Hussein…we underestimated his ability do survive…now we're probably going to have to go back at some point….threat of a nuclear conflict with him throwing a nuclear warhead on a Scud missile and dropping it on Tel Aviv is still very real. 10;57:19 11:01:11 WHAT DO YOU THINK GEORGE W. BUSH LEARNED FROM HIS FATHER'S CAMPAIGN IN 1992? 11:01:16 11;01:17 I think he was a real student of that campaign…takes nothing for granted like we did….loyalty is an important factor as well. 11;02:05 11:00:16 DO YOU MISS BEING PRESS SECRETARY TO A PRESIDENT? 11:00:19 11:00:20 I miss some things about it. I miss being with the president - the camaraderie of it…miss dealing with big issues.do I miss arguing with Sam and Helen every morning. I'm not sure I could say that. 11:00:45 |
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In the news Tuesday: New Hampshire cable supplier Adelphia Communications suffered severe losses on Wall Street. The company's stock value dropped more than 30 percent. Friday company officials disclosed financial details involving loans to the company's founder and former chief John Rigas. Rigas resiged earlier this month. |
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Laconia officials concerned about violence during next month's Bike Week are looking for flak jackets. The fire chief would like to borrow, rather than buy the armored jackets for the week. They're concerned because two rival motorcycle gangs recently broke off a truce. Violent outbreaks have occured at similar gatherings across the country. |
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Emergency personnel will be out in force this Thursday in Nashua when workers take part in the city's largest ever full scale disaster drill. The drill scenario involves domestic terrorism and a toxic release in the Merrimack River. The day-long exercise is designed to test the city's capacity to deal with disaster. |
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If I asked you to name one of the most popular pets in America, chances are you wouldn't say reptile. But more and more people are buying the exotic creatures. and learning too late that they can't care for them. A Manchester group called Broken Reptile Rescue and Education is trying to change that. Producer Tai Freligh explains more about the challenges facing Broken Reptile. |
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SOT This is Skeeter. Skeeter actually crawled up somebody's driveway and collapsed during one of the heat waves of last summer. TRACK Mike Dillon is President of Broken Reptile Rescue and Education. His organization is one of the few, if not the only formal group in the state to act in a rescue and adoption capacity for reptiles. SOT This is Dharma. Dharma was actually the first rescue that we took in. Dharma was found crawling around by Lake Massabesic about two years ago, not an uncommon story, but a pretty basic one. Somebody just didn't want her anymore, which unfortunately is the majority of these animals. TRACK In February of this year, the Feeding Time exotic pet store of Dover was shut down. Police had begun an investigation into the store when they discovered the power had been shut off to the building. What they found were more than100 animals, many of them sick or dead. The owners voluntarily gave up their license and were charged with several counts of cruelty to animals. Dover Police seized the animals and turned them over to the Cocheco Valley Humane Society. They kept some of the creatures. The rest went to Broken Reptile. SOT BRRE took approximately seventy animals, reptiles and amphibians out of a grand total of about 110 animals. TRACK Caring for such a large number of reptiles is a daunting task. SOT Current staff and facilities it's a grand total of two people full time and however many volunteers we can muster. And currently this is all being housed out of our private residence until such time as we can find the funding for an actual facility which ultimately is the direction we'd like to see brre go. TRACK Life for Mike and his wife has dramatically changed since the Feeding Time seizure. SOT Get up in the morning, check the phone calls that have come in over night because the phone rings twenty four hours a day around here, once you wake up you jump right into cleaning and feeding everybody, everybody being the lizards, turtles and frogs. NATSOT This is a combination of several leafy greens and some squashes. SOT Changing papers, changing substraights, changing water out, changing food, making sure everybody has what they need as far as vegetables, some cases, insects, crickets, meal worms, soup worms, things of that nature. It happens day in and day out seven days a week, we don't get a day off. TRACK: There are over twenty iguanas alone at the rescue. SOT This is the cute little iguana that everyone sees in the pet store. This is usually how the impulse buy happens. You see this cute little green guy. Nobody ever bothers to tell you that they are going to grow into the size of Mel and Jeanine. We do have a few that it's not a case of they didn't want them anymore, so much as they realized they just can't take care of them anymore, they're too large, too expensive. TRACK Funding for all the care and maintenance of the reptiles comes from donations and from Mike's own wallet. SOT As far as proper husbandry and care is concerned for an iguana, we've been able to ballpark it right around $1500 a year to properly care for, house and feed a single iguana. TRACK: And then there are the snakes. SOT Beggy is a juvenile Burmese Python. These guys will actually hit upwards of twenty five to thirty feet and 350 to 450 pounds. Not your standard pet. We do have a flash forward, I guess, of what Beggy will look like in a year or two if you'd like to see that."sure". But this is what Beggy would turn into in about two years at the most. Baby's between eight and nine feet right now. TRACK Standing among the scaly creatures that inhabit his home, Mike stops to ponder his choice of reptilian roommates. SOT Growing up an allergic asthmatic that was allergic to anything fur or feathers. Couldn't have a cat, couldn't have a dog, a bird, which pretty much left all the scaly things, all the snakes and turtles and lizards and of course growing up mom wouldn't let me have any of these pets. Once I grew older, because I refuse to say grew up, I started back into it myself and this actually just grew strictly out of a hobby nature. TRACK For now, the hard work continues, but there is hope on the horizon. SOT We're pending on our non profit status. Once that becomes a reality we can do some serious fund raising, and that's about it until the day comes that we can get this into it's own space, it's own building, I keep doing it here. I don't have any choice anymore. There are too many animals, I can't walk away whether I want to or not. TRACK For NH Outlook, this is Tai Freligh. |
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To find out more about adopting one of the rescued animals or to make a donation to Broken Reptile Rescue and Education, you can call them at 626-5199 extension 2 or visit the website at www-dot-brokenreptile-dot-com. |
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Severe thunderstorms and flash flood warnings effected most of the Northeast Tuesday. We checked in with Nicole Plette at the Mt. Washington Observatory to see what's ahead and what conditions were like on the mountain. |
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Mount Washington Observatory\Tuesday on the Summit\Overcast \Visibility: around 25 miles\Peak Gust: W 24 mph\High: 55 Wednesday\North\Partly sunny \Showers developing late\Highs: in the low to mid 70s.\Winds: S around 10 mph Wednesday\South\Partly sunny \Showers likely later\Highs: mid 60s to the low 70s\Winds: S around 10 mph |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - The trouble with wheat. Understanding celiac disease. |
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That's it for this edition of our program. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Ally McNair. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Understanding celiac disease. The Trouble with wheat tonight at 10pm on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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AP-NH--Con Man smfkee Thief stealing hundreds in Keene area with old game -- Police in Keene and southern Vermont are looking for a man who is using an old con man's trick to steal hundreds of dollars from stores. Police say the man appears to be a befuddled, grandfatherly-type -- but don't be fooled. He's been walking up to customer service desks and asking the clerks to make change so he can mail a relative some money in a birthday card. Then he uses a quick-change trick to confuse the clerk and walk off with the money. Police say he's pulled the trick eight to ten times recently. AP-NY-05-28-02 1316EDT |
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AP-NH--Historic Center smfpor 300-year-old building to be revived as arts center -- A 300-year-old complex in Durham is being revived as a community arts center. The nonprofit Mill Pond Center has bought 17 acres and buildings on the Oyster River for just over one million dollars after several years of negotiations. The group plans to protect the land from development and take a building that was once a tavern and turn it into a center for the arts. The group is in discussions with about 30 groups interested in relocating to the center. AP-NY-05-28-02 1057EDT |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:5/28/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 5:15 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included report on a new media center in the state. The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication was officially dedicated last Thursday. A former U.S. President, two presidential press secretaries and other celebrities gathered at Franklin Pierce College in Ringe. It was an opportunity for all to swap some political war stories and reflect on the role that journalism plays in our political system. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Rich Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Marlin Fitzwater\Fmr White House Spokesman Christen Kelleher\Franklin Pierce Senior John Soares\Center Director Sam Donaldson\ABC News Reporter Mike McCurry\Fmr White House Spokesman President George Bush |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:5/28/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 9:59 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included an interview with Former White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Marlin Fitzwater\Fmr White House Spokesman |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:5/28/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 5:46 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on a Manchester group called Broken Reptile Rescue and Education. As it turns out many consumers are purchasing animals they can't care for. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Tai Freligh NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Michael Dillon\Broken Reptile Rescue & Ed |
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Tonight on NH Outlook.sometimes what we think might be the ideal pet, isn't, Rescuing reptiles tonight at 10 only on NH Outlook. |