Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here was the way things were: "The scene was strictly for novelists, people who were writing novels and people who were paying court to The Novel. There was no room for a journalist, unless he was there in the role of would-be novelist or simple courtier of the great. There was no such thing as a literary journalist working for popular magazines or newspapers," writes Wolfe in the 1973 book, The New Journalism...
...greatest journalist in America in my mind in terms of his ability to report and write and to think--to come up with insights," says Felker, Wolfe's editor at the Herald-Tribune at the time his freelance Esquire piece introduced a new brand of journalism...
Hone and sharpen, play around with the possibilities--that was how Wolfe spent the greater part of the mid- and late sixties, trying almost every literary trick to discover how far one can go--and still be a journalist. Then the books came, books which reflected Wolfe's earlier essays and his knowledge about every and anything...
...adventurism in Viet Nam, an American bomb- assassination plot aimed at corrupt South Vietnamese officers goes awry, killing innocent shoppers and children in a Saigon square. Amid the carnage, a confrontation ensues between Alden Pyle, the well-meaning but naive protagonist, and the novel's narrator, a British journalist...
...Such close monitoring can cut both ways for a journalist in the field. CNN's Latin-American correspondent Lucia Newman was taunted by a mob opposed to Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega after she was seen smiling during a televised interview with the general. But when ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle granted an interview to a U.S. network, he chose CNN because of its high profile in Panama. Ultimately, Newman's reporting offended Noriega, and she was expelled from the country...