Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great sculptural oeuvres of the 20th century. The best coup is to have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most modern cartooning...
...tables have been turned on us." There is in our society a kind of diseased journalism which has an "incredible virulence." I mean to identify a syndrome, the symptoms of which Jeff Wise exemplifies: irresponsibility on the part of the journalist (avoiding doing the necessary background research to write cogently on an issue); loss of logic (note Wise's thought process: Diseases were dealt with poorly, doctors learned how to find cures, a new disease defies cure, so we should deal with disease defies cure, so we should deal with diseases poorly as we did in the first place...
...shall endure, nevertheless, for it is my duty as a journalist to tell you that there is no Santa Claus...
That evidence was extensive. A journalist's audio tape suggested that the first shot came too soon after Aquino left the plane for him to have reached the tarmac and Galman, but the court rejected the tape as inconclusive. The justices also dismissed the testimony of Rebecca Quijano, a passenger on the plane who said that she had seen a soldier in a military police uniform shoot Aquino. Quijano's disclosures, the opinion said, were marred by "emotional instability" and a "personal animus toward the military." The court had earlier rejected the main evidence against Ver, which consisted principally...
...idea for Living at Risk was hatched two years ago by co-directors Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas and Richard Rogers. As a photographic journalist for Time magazine and The New York Times, Meiselas had spent years in Nicaragua, and she broached the idea of a film project with Guzzetti and Rogers, two film professors at Harvard University. Their goal was to expose the besmirched truths of the nation in a way easily assimilable by American audiences. Together they hit upon the inspired decision to film a middle-class family, the Barrios, carrying out their daily tasks in the service...