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Today is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, martyr, who died in the place of another at Auschwitz. St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of journalists.

Stunning how much they look like each other.

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341 posted on 08/14/2006 12:35:15 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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Background on Steve Centanni

"Steve Centanni is a national correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He has been with the network since its inception in 1996 and has reported on numerous global news stories and events.

In July 2003, Centanni was the first television network reporter to provide on-site reports from the building where Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed after a gun battle with the 101st Airborne Division. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Centanni served as an embedded journalist with the Navy SEAL’s and provided numerous first reports for the network, including a report that the U.S. had captured two main offshore oil terminals located 22 miles off Iraq's southern coast, preventing them from being blown up by the Iraqis.

Previously, while covering the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Centanni was first to report the fall of the Taliban in their final stronghold of Kandahar. During Operation Enduring Freedom, he reported on U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, the new interim government in Kabul and hostilities between Pakistani and Indian troops along the frontlines in Kashmir. Currently, Centanni is covering the crisis in Iraq and is stationed in Doha, Qatar.

During his tenure at FNC, Centanni has provided extensive coverage of the Pentagon, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Presidential Campaign of Sen. Bob Dole in 1996. He traveled with former President Clinton during his 1996 presidential campaign and his second term in office.

Centanni, a California native, began his broadcast career as an anchor and reporter for radio stations in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif. For eight years he wrote and produced news segments for KRON-TV (formerly an NBC affiliate) in San Francisco. In 1989 he won the Alaska Press Club Award for producing a weekly news magazine show for KTUU-TV (NBC) in Alaska.

Centanni attended the University of Colorado and earned a Bachelor’s degree in broadcasting from San Francisco State University."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1182,00.html


354 posted on 08/14/2006 12:42:21 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: mware

St. Maximilian Kolbe, martyr, who died in the place of another at Auschwitz. St. Maximilian Kolbe is the patron saint of journalists.


*****


He has an amazing life story.


382 posted on 08/14/2006 1:18:29 PM PDT by maica (Creating human shields is a war crime. It is also a Hezbollah specialty.-- Charles Krauthammer)
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