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Looking Back on Mike Ahern

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2004

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Looking Back on Mike Ahern (Ch. 8, H. Caldwell and Lugar speak). Channel 8 Television News. WISH-TV News
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Looking Back on Mike Ahern

Video (5:06)

Notes by Jessica VanAllen

​Synopsis: This short video is basically a celebration of Mike Ahern. His friends and coworkers talk about his skills. Caldwell talks about retiring from journalism.

0:03 video starts

0:35 Reid Duffy (friend and co-author) talks about Mike, collaborated on Festerwood at 5

0:59  Tom Cochrun talks about how Ahern was a good poet and survived difficult world of Hard News Journalism

1:22 Lee Giles

2:42 Stan Wood (weatherman) calls him poet, philosopher, comedian, student of the world

3:01 Blizzard of 78, Mike drove only four wheel vehicle and went home to get Stan Wood supplies to stay the night

4:01 Mike Ahern and his wife

*4:22 Howard Caldwell says the longer you’re off air, the better you were, people say they miss you and it’s not the same anymore

Website clip: This clip provides an interesting outlook on life as a journalist, how fame and love is often the result of time off air.

4:20  IC: “You know, the longer you’re off the tube…”

4:49  OC: “… for a life he can finally enjoy on his own schedule”