Word: journalistic
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Alister Hughes, 64, editor of the Grenada Newsletter, has not found it easy to be a journalist on the island. In 1973, under the despotic regime of Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, Hughes was beaten up while covering pre-independence rallies. Five years later, the Marxist government of Maurice Bishop began harassing him because of his editorial independence. Three weeks ago, Hughes was thrown into jail for having reported on the violent coup that brought down Bishop. Freed one day after the U.S. invasion, Hughes, who is also a part-time reporter for the London Sunday Tunes, ABC and TIME...
...case, for a long time, some thought forever, it seemed almost impossible to look objectively at the man and his presidency, to see what he had done and left undone. Not long after the assassination, Journalist Gerald W. Johnson wrote, "Already it has happened to two of the 35 men who have held the presidency, rendering them incapable of analysis by the instruments of scholarship; and now Washington, the godlike, and Lincoln, the saintly, have been joined by Kennedy, the young chevalier...
...Spiritualists, British Journalist Ruth Brandon takes a narrow-eyed view of an obsession that haunted 19th and early 20th century life. As she cannily observes, Darwin's legacy of doubt had weakened the moral underpinnings of Victorian and American society. But it had merely replaced religious faith with another dogma: the authority of Science. New believers turned to evidence of the world beyond the senses, "proof given by mediums who could communicate with the dead, make ectoplasm appear in darkened chambers and order inanimate objects to move at will. Katherine and Margaretta Fox of Arcadia, N.Y., were the superstars...
...Including Alister Hughes, a prominent Grenadian journalist who had been arrested after reporting on this month's coup for TIME and other publications...
...many attributed the decision to run the tapes to baser motives, and wondered what purpose had been served by not waiting for the trial. Nat Hentoff, a New York City journalist and longtime First Amendment defender, charges that CBS's purpose was "titillation and sensationalism," an example of how the "scoop syndrome sometimes becomes a disease." Concludes Hentoff: "They have every right to do it, but they ought to be ashamed of themselves...