Word: journaliste
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...surely television's most famous interviewer, the woman with a nose for celebrity revelations, the journalist who never saw a secret she couldn't coax out of a guest, would not be a party to leaving the juiciest dish from her book on the cutting-room floor. Or would she? Walters wouldn't comment. Her publicist, Cindi Berger, acknowledged that Walters "approved the abridged version of the book," but just didn't feel the love stuff was important enough to include. "The focus was just to be about her work," Berger explains. "The men in her life...
...reach the office of general Moeen Uddin Ahmed in Dhaka's military cantonment, a foreign journalist must pass three security checkpoints and endure the searches of numerous stern soldiers. Broad-shouldered aides then lead you, with hushed solemnity and even a hint of fear, toward the chambers of their commander in chief. One would expect a grim, towering leader behind the headquarters' oak doors, but General Moeen is conspicuously diminutive and unassuming, hardly looking the part of the South Asian strongman he very well may be. Yet Moeen pulls few punches when speaking of his country's politics...
...loss also came just as journalists are feeling besieged. Their bosses are slashing staffs, their advertisers are drifting away, and their prerogatives are being challenged by bloggers and YouTubers: a diffuse army of the uncredentialed, uninhibited and--most terrifyingly--unpaid. In Russert, the press lost its most authoritative mass-market journalist, just as it is losing its authority and its mass market...
...That iconoclastic take didn't convince everyone present. "The man's going to be remembered as a blithering idiot," said a distinguished British journalist, whose temper had not been sweetened by the elaborate security measures that inflicted a two-hour wait in a stifling room before the press conference began. Similar high levels of security attended the President's final leg of his tour, a four-hour stopover in Belfast. The Northern Ireland Assembly, the devolved government delivered by Ulster's long and difficult peace process, was closed down to ensure the safety of the leader of the Free World...
...will be sorely missed because his years as a Senate staffer and probing TV journalist gave him special insights on political and governmental issues. Had he chosen law as a career, his cross-examination would have made him a star in that field as well." - Sen. Arlen Specter...