Word: eyewitnesser
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Even worse were the hours spent following Presidents Carter and Reagan to functions devoid of news value, just in case something catastrophic might happen. Says Woodruff: "The practice is sometimes referred to ghoulishly as 'the death watch.' " When a crisis actually erupted, Woodruff was sometimes turned into a...
The remarkable eyewitness account and exclusive photographs in this week's World story on the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel and the massacre that followed were the result of the almost routine serendipity that seems to be the hallmark of good journalists. As the bomb that was...
What gave the clumsy power grab more importance, however, was that the airmen were almost immediately joined by students from the University of Nairobi and by hordes of ragged shantytown dwellers, who went on a rampage of looting and destruction. They proceeded to plunder everything that they could carry away...
Jimmy Breslin's colleagues at the old New York Herald Tribune used to wonder how much of his Runyonesque column was fiction. The question was settled with the suggestion that Jimmy did not write fiction because he had enough trouble making up the truth. That, in part, was how...
When authors gather to analyze critics, they frequently speak of pencil envy. The diagnosis hardly applies to Edel, a man with many distinguished books to his credit. If anything, he is a professional who knows how to cover his bets. He can argue the obvious: that literature is not a...