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...Though she now lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she still reads military bulletins the way a horse player studies the form. She knows why the B-52s are striking certain targets. When she gets together with other veterans of Viet Nam reporting like Gloria Emerson, David Halberstam and journalists on leave from Saigon, she says, "The conversation is like talk among butterfly experts-a fraternity of people with the same obsession." ∙Martha Duffy
...most significant questions raised was why so many capable reporters leave the daily-newspaper field. Such Pulitzer Prize alumni as David Halberstam and J. Anthony Lukas of the New York Times talked of low pay and insufficient "time to think." Freelancer Murray Kempton, ex-New York Post columnist, cryptically cited "spiritual reasons," and advised those with families to support to quit by age 40 in order to earn an adequate income elsewhere. Most who talked about the exodus from dailies conveyed the impression that they thought their talents were shackled by conventional newspaper discipline...
...held in New York what it called The A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention. Featuring panels on "The...New...Journalism." "The Wayward Pressbus," "Should There Be a Women's Page?," and "Why Journalists Leave Daily Newspapers," the conference offered up a pantheon of journalism's superstars (Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, David Halberstam, J. Anthony Lukas, Studs Terkel, Gloria Steinem, all the lovely people...) and understandably angered those daily journalists who claimed their own concerns underrepresented. There were the requisite number of newspapermen's horror stories (take sexism, for example: when Nixon announced his last batch of Supreme Court candidates, the males under...
...Liebling Counter-Convention, a journalism conference to end all journalism conferences. Among participants in the 14 panel discussions are Gay Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free...
...Sherrill, in the 1960s, drew attention to the continued existence of widespread hunger and even starvation in the U.S., popular myth to the contrary. New Left publications like Ramparts wage a kind of holy war on authority generally, though they are often inaccurate. Skeptics like Jack Newfield and David Halberstam have savaged public policies and the reputations of those who make them...