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...Journalism gives you a sense of being part of one's own history from the unvirailable position of the observery," she says. But rather than remaining passive onlookers, "Journalists have an obligation to be a voice for the powerless," Bernstein believes...
Reporting the plight of Milwaukee's mentally ill. Bernstein uncovered numerous cases of Medicaid fraud by psychotherapists and social works who were billing the government the services never performed. These accounts let its viveral prosocutions, and the formulicat of a point State City Mudioldd prosecutorial unit. This R. porting carned Bernsloin a second-place in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize category for local news over...
...Although Bernstein has met with success after deciding to disregard her initial hesitancy about journalism, she still question the ability of journalists to effect change...
...There's ghoulish side to journalism," she says, explaining that similar stories of human hardship recur, coming "back to haunt you." "Once a reporter has done a story, it's old news. The editor wants something different," adds Bernstein, who thinks reporters should have more opportunities to do follow-up stories as in-depth projects...
...Journalists show a superficial callousness about tragedy. You want to write sincerely about the down and out, yet your professional side exults at each new horror story you discover because if 'll make good story," says Bernstein. "I can remember being appalled that my father was hoping Winston Churchill would die [at a convenient press-run time] to put him on the cover of Newsweek...