Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert J. Cox says he isn't a moral crusader...
...past ten years, as the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, Cox has been the last holdout--the only editor who will print information criticizing Argentina's military government--information about missing people, about a corrupt system of law, about senseless murders and violence, information about a society gone haywire in its attempt to erase its internal dissent. And he has done so with daily death threats to himself and his family--even threats to his 11-year...
This year, Cox is in "paradise." As a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he and his family of six reside in Cambridge, and for the first time his children can walk to school without fear. Cox himself is taking a course in "evil" in an effort to understand how and why societies break down. "It's nice to be in a place where you can discuss these things in an academic way," he says. "I'm hoping to go back reinforced...morally reinforced...
...Cox answered an "exotic" advertisement in the World Press News which sent him to Buenos Aires as a desk clerk. Working at odd jobs and stringing for many American and British papers for ten years after his arrival, Cox at times earned only $200 a month. Ten years ago, he became editor of the Buenos Aires Herald--an English-speaking daily journal--and was drawn into a position for which he feels both he and the paper are unsuited. Even so, and even after what will probably be an unusual year of peace and without fear, Cox will go back...
Because of media censorship, journalists must be equally careful. During a visit to Cambridge in spring 1979, Robert Cox, former editor-in-chief of the conservative English language newspaper, The Buenos Aires Herald, adamantly said the North American press exaggerated the extent of repression and censorship in Argentina. He contradicted himself six months later when he explained in Time magazine why he and his family chose to defect...