Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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London Correspondents Mary Cronin and John Saar, who interviewed some of Orwell's friends and colleagues, are also ardent admirers of this week's cover subject. Says Saar: "For clarity, honesty and the willingness to tell the difficult truths, he was a model journalist...
...dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want any local or nonlocal journalists on our floor." He went on to say that he did not "want to submit any of our troops to the indignity of having them crawling around the newsroom." In the end, staffers shouted profanities at local TV film crews, one woman blithely unplugged their lights, a reporter poured beer into...
...President and the governor were hit by separate projectiles, they could not have come from the same gun. The entire assassination, most eyewitnesses agree, took place in 5.8 seconds. According to the Commission, it took 2.3 seconds to operate the rifle's bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded...
...under the Israeli occupation. "We grew up seeing the fedayeen [the Palestinian guerrillas] as hero figures," he said. "That has been shattered now." Others bridled at the fact that the Syrian-backed rebels were led by men who had originally come from the West Bank. Said an East Jerusalem journalist: "The moment they lifted arms against other Palestinians, they lost the right to be called Palestinians...
...avenue for this success is three journalist friends who travel down to Nicaragua as the Sandinista drive to oust Somoza in 1979 is gaining momentum. There is, to be sure, a certain degree of caricature on the surface. The portrayal of the reporters--Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy and Gene Hackman--does little to break the stereotype of the foreign correspondent, as we get a vicarious glimpse into the (improbable) world of tough-talking, globe-trotting journalists...