Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African government is waging a war against African neighbors as cruel and repressive as the policies it enforces inside its borders, a freelance journalist told an audience of 50 in Boylston Auditorium yesterday...
...Essays . . . oops! articles, but we are braced for angry letters from just about anybody. We know what it is like to be on the receiving end of his wit. In a "TRB" column three years ago, Kinsley divided the number of words in TIME by the number of word journalists on our masthead. "That works out to slightly over 100 words a week per journalist," he wrote, explaining that the staff generates and then digests vast amounts of reporting, most of which never sees print. He then added a barbed compliment: "It is a system of literary creation like nothing...
...journalism as a child. Edward R. Murrow was an early hero, and he recalls wangling his way into both the 1952 and 1956 Democratic Party conventions: "When I looked up at the anchor booths, I knew I was looking at the altar." While serving in the Marines, the aspiring journalist met Walter Cronkite, who, he recalls, advised him "to read anything I could get my hands on." He started out in Chicago radio, eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution...
...year Wolfe's book came out the city had at least two of those. Yet Wolfe's message remains clear--the public frenzy generated about the trial is the empty hysteria of an uncomprehending city. In a final touch of verisimilitude, Wolfe concludes his work with an old journalist-style fake New York Times article...
Road Warriors. Riding his campaign bus last week, Pat Robertson boasted to a San Francisco reporter that because he found the Washington Post's coverage so biased, he had banned the paper's correspondents from the bus. "But I just left a Post reporter," the journalist said. "I was sitting next to him." Robertson angrily summoned a press aide, who explained that the reporter on board, Bill Peterson, had not written anything offensive about the televangelist; it was T.R. Reid who had been blacklisted for his articles. "I don't care," Robertson retorted. "Get him off. I don't care...