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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recall ever being treated differently by a source or colleague because I happen to be a journalist who is also Black and Native American...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Double Duty: A Writer or a Role Model? | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

Nonetheless, I do recall there being pressure--mostly self-imposed--to fulfill the double-duty of being not only a good sportswriter, but also a Black journalist who presents a Black perspective in other parts of the paper. I attended many boring news meetings. I ordered myself to write features, editorials, anything which has meaning outside of sports...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Double Duty: A Writer or a Role Model? | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

What I want to do is walk the fine line between being a regular journalist and a journalist who is Black. I did not become a journalist to further the cause of Blacks. I don't want to be perceived only as a Black journalist. I want to be considered a competent journalist who just happens to be Black...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Double Duty: A Writer or a Role Model? | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

...intrepid investigative journalist and wistful senior, I've been going to a lot of senior bars lately trying to find the source of their dubious appeal. After all, the illicit thrill of drinking when you are underage is gone if you're a senior. Three-fourths of the partygoers are not seniors, the people you presumably came to see. Conversation is impossible, and the press toward the keg of lame beer resembles a British soccer match...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Party Over, Out of Time | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...most ballyhooed celebrities. Out of the appalling carnage of World War I -- the mud-caked anonymity of the trenches, the hail of mechanized death that spewed from machine guns and fell from airplanes -- there emerged a lone Romantic, framed heroically against the clean desert sands of Arabia. U.S. journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany -- had pop-myth possibilities. Thomas' publicity essentially created the figure known as Lawrence of Arabia, but others contributed to the saga. Robert Graves wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero Our Century Deserved | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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