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...write in response to Parker R. Conrad's ill-advised column "Fit to Print?" (Opinion, May 18). The op-ed page is no place for the managing editor to defend The Crimson against criticisms and allegations of poor ethics. For Conrad to write a column about the journalistic process is a direct conflict of interest. Conrad's editorial blurs the line between news and opinion at The Crimson and is particularly ironic given that the focus of his piece is The Crimson's ethics...
...Furthermore, Conrad begins by noting that his column is not designed to address issues of particular controversy but rather general issues about journalism, Crimson style. But his first section is a direct response to particular allegations about The Crimson's unequal coverage of the sit-in. A more appropriate way to handle such concerns would be to publish additional letters to the editor on the subject and a rebuttal to the specific points they make...
Parker R. Conrad ’02, a chemistry concentrator in Quincy House, is managing editor of The Crimson. His column will appear monthly...
Civilization, Joseph Conrad writes in Heart of Darkness, is “like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday...
Iquitos is the kind of town you might expect to read about in the pages of Joseph Conrad, tucked hard along the Amazon and alive with equal parts danger and promise. It draws missionaries of all kind, zealots intent on changing the world by starting here. It was two such crusades--one to stop the narcotraffic that runs on this river and one that is trying to bring Jesus to its darkest corners--that collided 140 miles east of town April 20 when a Peruvian jet shot down an unarmed Cessna carrying missionaries back from an upriver stint. The results...