Word: journalistic
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Winona LaDuke '80-3, a Chippewa by birth, is a leading Indian expert on uranium mining on reservations. A political organizer and journalist, LaDuke spent the past year and a half on leave from Harvard, working with Indian tribes to fight uranium and coal mining on their reservations. She has spoken as well at anti-nuclear rallies across the country in an attempt to make people aware of the dangers of uranium mining to the Indian people...
Unlike McGinnis, best known for his classic, The Selling of the President 1968, McPhee is not a journalist. He is rather an impeccable craftsman, a quiet, careful worker whose pieces are intricate productions of exemplary quality. He is patient, willing to wait until surfaces dissolve and deeper meanings emerge. McPhee never really raises his perfectly modulated voice...
...journalism junkie's equivalent of the idealized novels treasured by teenage hockey players in Manitoba ("Peter Plays Right Wing") or little leaguers in Williamstown ("A World Series for Johnny"). Though more serious than those efforts, True Bearing is essentially a novelized version of the kind of aspiring journalist who spent his childhood years listening to all-news radio, idolizing Woodward and Bernstein and "Scotty" Reston instead of Mays and Yastrzemski, and waiting up all night to catch the next morning's Times...
...Stone, journalist: "Some in Reagan's entourage are wacky paranoids...
Tracking races for 435 House seats, 34 senatorial slots and 13 governorships, as well as 51 separate presidential sprints in some 175,000 voting precincts, is an awesome task for any journalist. But things have changed quite a bit since the stone age days of 1960, when all through Election Night at NBC the latest figures were hauled up to the Huntley-Brinkley anchor booth in a wicker basket on a rope...