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...changed details in a number of other columns, but contended, in classic "New Journalism" fashion, that altering the facts had not impaired his rendition of the truth. The rash of fraud infected the New York Times seven months later, when its Sunday magazine published a report from Cambodia by Freelancer Christopher Jones. In fact, Jones had written the story while at his home in Spain and for part of it had plagiarized a 1930 novel, André Malraux's La Voie Royale...
...After was moving and dramatic, the largely ignored documentary on Cambodia was more moving, more dramatic, in every way more powerful-even if it was about a relatively small conflict, in no way comparable to a nuclear holocaust. And that was so for one simple reason: it had all really happened. One of the striking elements in The Day After was the deliberate blurring of who started the war, or what...
...about. On Cambodia, there were constant explanations. Here was President Nixon pointing to maps and charts. Here was Henry Kissinger making the point that we were bombing not a neutral nation but an enemy-base area. The victims of The Day After were all Americans, most of them civilians, many of them women and children. As we watched them being engulfed in flames, we could identify with them and feel richly sorry for ourselves. It was harder to watch a film of Americans doing the killing, to hear...
...There was little bloodshed in Lawrence, Kans. We could ad mire the skill with which the makeup men decorated the actors' faces with red streaks, but we could keep telling ourselves that it was not real blood, and there was not much of it anyway, nothing gory. In Cambodia, blood...
...have had so much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just been amputated, and next to him lay his infant daughter whose arm had also been amputated. Neither of them smiled. They both looked numb. The stump of the man's arm kept twitching uncontrollably. At the end of The Day After, a statement said...