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...does not make it real news. Real news is the result of careful investigation into issues that affect our lives. Real news is crucial to our understanding of the world around. Real news helps us see problems and, hopefully, helps us find solutions as well. Apartheid, the AIDS epidemic, Enron, Firestone tires, Tailhook and, of course, Watergate are prime examples of the powerful and important role journalists play in shaping our world. And it is precisely this kind of journalism that we should foster. We need it more than we realize...
...about as gutsy as their decision to build an oscillator in their garage back in 1939. "I respect her for being aggressive," says Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, HP's largest vendor. "And I'd label her a work in progress." This is what the HP story has that Enron's doesn't: a heroine in transition and a $25 billion cliffhanger...
Journalists are not often idealized or romanticized these days. Rather the reverse. Journalists' poll numbers are low. They have a corrupted image of lowest-common-denominator tabloid sensationalism, of superficiality and bias. Commentators, left and right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl--not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...
Your cartoon strip poking fun at the shenanigans of Washington officials [CARTOON, Feb. 11] was funny, very funny! Mad magazine couldn't have skewered the energy-policy meetings between Dick Cheney and Enron CEO Kenneth Lay any better! And thanks for including the Puritan-throwback Attorney General John Ashcroft for his unbelievable decision to cover up the breasts of an innocent statue! JEAN P. FORRESTER Rochester Hills, Mich...
...million Total charges filed in one month with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by law firms working on the Enron case...