After seeing Bitter Fruit, Magnum photographer Paul Fusco's portfolio of funerals of American soldiers who died in Iraq, I was moved to these thoughts.

It's always when I write my December column for The Digital Journalist that the Moody Blues' song "Strange Times" starts echoing through my head.

When somebody asks what I do for a living, I tell them that I produce videos.

A while ago I got a call from David Burnett (who I believe I can call a friend of 20 or so years) telling me that he had a Fortune assignment to photograph billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in Lincoln, Neb.

In DPP 2.0 there is a sharpness slider in the Raw Image Adjustment window that goes from 0 to 7, and there is a sharpness slider in the RGB Image Adjustment window that goes from 0 to 500. What's the difference?

Welcome to the December issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

Just when many critics had all but buried "The West Wing" for being stale and not reflecting what, for some, is the real America - whatever that is - the show redeemed itself with its first live broadcast, a debate between its two candidates for president.

What parent isn't familiar with the struggle to get little Johnny to eat those food items that taste a little different?

It was 1959. After spending about 18 months on the film assignment desk at night at NBC News, I was ready to move on, but to where I had no idea.

There were times when nothing you did went right. This journal is about one of those days.

There was Jack A. He was the City Editor when I was hired.

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