Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every piece of journalism I've ever read has been biased. It's biased because whoever comes to write something as a journalist brings with them a certain point of view. A journalist going into Guatemala is going into another culture. All we try to do in the film is tell the truth as we found...
...vociferously protested the war in Vietnam, now look back with shame to their decision to evade the draft and their effective decision to leave the burden of that war on the poor of this country. In a poignant article he wrote for The Washington Monthly in 1975, the journalist James Fallows, a member of the Harvard Class of 1970, recalled that rationalizations he and his classmates used for their action, most notably the argument that it was their duty to withhold themselves from the clutches of America's war machine. Fortunately, as he pointed out, this meant that the course...
...brisk October morning last year, Henry Liu, 52, a businessman and part-time journalist, was shot dead by Asian gunmen outside his home in Daly City, Calif. Liu's widow suspected that the murder was politically motivated. Under the pen name of Chiang Nam (River South), Liu had written books and articles that assailed Taiwan. "It was a terrorist killing," said Jerome Garchik, Mrs. Liu's lawyer. "Henry Liu was killed to silence his work and also to intimidate Chinese living in America." U.S. officials say that Liu had apparently acted at various times as an agent or informant...
...Rohrer, a computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...
...Weterston imbues his performance of Schanberg with an appealing amount of moral ambivalence. Though Schanberg is truly fond of Pran, he is basically an arrogant American asshole journalist with a predilection for editorial moralizing. Schanberg is so narrow-mindedly hunting after a story that he cannot distinguish the larger picture from his dispatches, nor realize the consequences of his decision to stay. Anyone who has read Schanberg's column in the Times will find Waterston's interpretation convincing...