I started in the TV news and documentary business in the fall of 1983, and had a certain amount of luck. In January of 1993, I was sent to Russia... more
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Vanguard : Prison Contraband (6 members)
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- MitchKoss commented on Border Boom Town 5 years ago
Sometimes doing a story involves stepping--or driving--into the unknown. The day before Elizabeth, Lauren Cerre, and I shot this piece we spent the day following agents of the U.S. Border Patrol... more
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- MitchKoss commented on Coca Country 5 years ago
Before the U.S. government had a War on Terror, there was a War on Drugs. And there were two approaches to fighting it. In one, law enforcement entities, such as the U.S. Drug Enforcement... more
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- MitchKoss commented on Haiti's Hotzone 5 years ago
Laura, Tracey Chang and I went to Haiti in September of 2005, around the peak of instability there. We covered different aspects of the crisis, such as food relief. But we also wanted to show... more
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- MitchKoss commented on Narco State 5 years ago
This was the third marijuana growing season that Laura and I had gone out with the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, CAMP, into California's Sierra Nevadas in search of gigantic marijuana... more
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- MitchKoss commented on Naked China: Out of Control 5 years ago
If you can look past the gruesome aspects of this piece, and that could be tough, you should see two things about Vanguard's technique, as embodied here by Laura. First, the way that the... more
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- MitchKoss commented on An ICE Morning in LA 5 years ago
In the summer of 2005, Tracey Chang and I were working on a story on fake ID cards with Max and Jason, and in the course of it, got Virginia Kice, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs... more
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- MitchKoss commented on Our Close Ally? 5 years ago
A nation's power is typically divided into Hard and Soft Power. Hard Power is the ability to vanquish foes or intimidate them into abandoning a course of action deemed hostile. Now that... more
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- MitchKoss commented on The Amazon Frontier 5 years ago
In November of 2004, Laura Ling and I were preparing to go down to Amazon to watch the Brazilian Federal Police raid ranches in search of indentured servants--ie, slaves. We decided to also look... more
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- MitchKoss commented on Battle Against Bird Flu 5 years ago
Is Moby Dick, commonly ranked as one of the two greatest classics of 19th Century American literature, a story about Man's Fate, or a story about harpoons? Sometimes being able to determine... more
