Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent murder by Soviet troops of an American journalist, Charles Thornton of the Arizona Republic, illustrates this point. Thornton's death occurred shortly after the Soviet Embassy in Kabul issued a warning that Soviet forces would actively seek out and execute journalists covering the mujahedin. Whereas the slaying of a network cameraman in Samoza's Nicaragua made front page headlines a few years ago, Thornton's slaying was hardly mentioned in the U.S. news media. Imagine the stories which would have reported Thornton's slaying had he been killed in El Salvador or South Africa...
Earlier this year, for instance, freelance journalist Rob Schultheis recorded numerous refugee accounts of the mass execution of 800 people, in the elderly, in the Laghman Valley in eastern Afghanistan. The well-documented level of brutality in this incident place it in the ranks of other well-known civilian massacres, like Guernica or My Lai. National Public Radio was the only U.S. media organization to carry the Laghman story...
...course, an investigative journalist must find it only proper to sample a bottle himself. Besides, I couldn't resist...
...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...
...pictures to an insurance company, the frequent fate of stolen art treasures, because the Marmottan could not afford the enormous insurance premiums on its permanent collection. Police doubt that the intention is to sell the purloined paintings to a collector, because their fame makes them, as a French journalist put it, "about as negotiable as the Eiffel Tower." One possibility is that the robbers are terrorists who hope to exchange the pictures for a captured colleague. Said Police Superintendent Thierry Boulogne, who is involved in the case: "No one hypothesis is being excluded. Everything is possible...