Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation's latest HMO was first proposed in an editorial in the May/June 1997 issue of Annals of Improbable Research, The Journal of Record for Inflated Research and Personalities (AIR)--a publication sometimes described as the MAD magazine of science. Abrahams is the editor of AIR which annually hosts the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced...
Washington journalists have their own version of the Freshman Questions: "What's your name? Where do you work? What do you cover?" When a guy from a small technical newsletter publisher introduced himself, I had to reciprocate. I said I was Chana Schoenberger, from the Wall Street Journal, and that I was general-assignment, meaning that I didn't have a regular beat...
...Wall Street Journal?" he said, with a wry, slightly embarrassed smile. "Never heard...
According to this theory, a person's job is a simple indicator of their place within Washington society. Consequently, if I work for the Wall Street Journal, I must be important. Everyone in my bureau must also be important, and my boss, the bureau chief, must be one of the most important people around. The same goes for employees of the White House, staffers for well-known Congresspeople and journalists at any of the top newspapers, magazines and other news organizations...
...matter where I work. Some of my co-workers are quite influential--a whole crowd of them just got named among the city's top journalists by Washingtonian Magazine--but one couldn't logically make a blanket statement about the whole bureau. Nevertheless, public-relations firms call my Journal voicemail nonstop when I'm covering a story. Three separate CEO's called--on their own initiative--to comment on the Internet commerce framework...