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...Bill Brock...
Pending that, the judgment of journalists with book contracts will have to do. Last year David Brock, a writer for the bratty conservative monthly the American Spectator, published The Real Anita Hill, which suggested that Hill was a woman romantically obsessed with Thomas. "Nutty, and a bit slutty," he called her. Now comes Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), in which Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, reporters for the Wall Street Journal, offer a picture of Thomas as a man possessed by racial resentments and by good-looking female staffers, whose assets he was not above...
Last weekend sophomore Harry Nakielny was thrust into the starting position to replace ailing senior Brock Harvey. Nakielny performed well in his first college start, completing 10 of 17 passes for 129 yards. Nakielny will start once again this weekend...
...controversial lawsuit considered a precursor of possible applications of libel law in electronic journalism was settled early this week, and Netheads used to a free-flowing exchange of information are bracing for a chill. Brock N. Meeks, a Virginia journalist and the best-known electronic chronicler of happenings on the Internet, has agreed to pay Ohio direct marketer Benjamin D. Suarez $64 in court costs -- and to notify Suarez at least 48 hours before Meeks pens any stories about the businessman. Suarez had launched the lawsuit on March 22 after Meeks wrote in his Internet newsletter, Cyberwire Dispatch, that...
...flows together quite smoothly. On the other hand, polished prose copied onto bulletin boards from books and magazines often seems long- winded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can come across as self-important blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Says Brock Meeks, a Washington-based reporter who covers the online culture for Communications Daily: "There are a bunch of hacker kids out there who can string a sentence together better than their blue- blooded peers simply because they log on all the time and write, write, write...