Page One Meeting

Take any WCPO 9 news story and rewind it back to its beginning -- before we shoot a frame of video -- and you'll see reporters, managers and producers debating everything you are about to see and hear.

From the initial pitch, through editorial meetings, to writing, revising, editing and finally airing and publication, our news stories go through a complex life cycle.

We Have Met the Enemy...

Walt Kelly’s phrase, “We have met the enemy and he is us” derives from braggadocio during the War of 1812 in which commodore Oliver Hazard Perry reported, “We have met the enemy and they are ours” to William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie. That phrase stands with John Paul Jones’s “I have not yet begun to fight,” and Julius Caesar’s “Veni, vidi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered) as one of the most famous battle reports in history.

The phrase lives on, not by constant reuse in similar circumstances, but by clever rephrasing in divergent situations. That is what has kept this phrase from becoming a cliché. As it is artfully applied to different scenarios, it continues to tell us about ourselves—and the world around us.

How can it be applied to the current situation in the US Capitol?  

Who is the 'Enemy' in this circumstance and how can he be defeated?

 

Lame Duck

Once the electorate has voted them out, what have politicians accomplished as they linger in office? And how was the term "lame duck" coined? Correspondent Mo Rocca looks at America's time-honored practice of peaceably handing over the reins of presidential power.

Should President Trump resign?  Why or why not?

Let America Be American Again

Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again" was written more than eight decades ago, but is just as relevant now as our nation struggles to live up to its promise of freedom and equality.