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”