Dana Chivvis
speaker
159 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Sep
Dana Chivvis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's fine.
Charlie's had his own bouts with suicidal thoughts.
They brought his career in the Navy to an end.
He told me about it when the microphones were off.
He said it was okay to talk about here.
I asked him if in retrospect, the thing that got him about Eddie's funeral, the reason he felt compelled to write the essay.
Was that it could have been his own funeral?
But he said no, that's not it.
And then he explained why he wrote the essay.
He said he knew from his time during Medevac flights that the mere sound of a helicopter approaching can improve the vital signs of a person on the verge of death.
He said
I wrote you because I wanted to be the sound of a helicopter to someone.
Liz Flock was just starting out as a reporter in 2011, living in D.C., working at The Washington Post. This was the golden age of blogging and social media. Instagram was just a year old, basically a toddler. Twitter was five. And news outlets realized they could use these blossoming tools of the Internet to do a hybrid version of reporting. They called it the Breaking News Blog.
Liz was a reporter at The Washington Post's Breaking News Blog.
Very original.
The job was a combination of actual reporting and aggregation, basically reading other reporters' stories and various social media accounts and repackaging it all. I was doing a similar job around this time at AOL News. Our blog was called Surge Desk because we were supposed to create a surge of traffic for the website. Only I worked at AOL News, not the Washington Post.
So I was reporting on Groundhog Day in Staten Island and writing posts about how solar flares are kind of like the sun is farting. Liz was writing about the Arab Spring.
Yeah. And it's just you and one editor. Is that right?
To keep up with all this from her desk in D.C., she followed a bunch of social media accounts and blogs. The Arab Spring, you might remember, was one of the first big social movements to use these online tools to organize. Rightly or wrongly, it was called the Facebook Revolution.
One of the blogs Liz followed was written by a 35-year-old Syrian-American woman named Amina Araf, who had recently moved back to Damascus from the U.S. Her blog was called A Gay Girl in Damascus.
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