Word: journalisting
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi has never been afraid of controversial topics. Her two previous books, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, took on touchy issues of gender politics and feminism. Likewise, her provocative new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America (Metropolitan), concerns sensitive cultural territory, the nation's myths about 9/11. Does Faludi worry about treading on sacred ground? "I'm used to being beaten up," she says wryly. "You try as best...
...Faludi: I was in Los Angeles, three hours behind. I was actually woken up by a friend, a journalist, who told me to turn on my television. I had this very curious dream that late that night, or early in the morning. I have no way of explaining this. I'm the farthest way from a New Age type of person, in spite of living in California. But it was a dream in which I was on an airplane and sitting next to another woman, a stranger. Two young men came up carrying pistols and shot twice. I remember...
...threats after airing a report that alleged that a helicopter belonging to Uribe's father was found at a cocaine processing center called Tranquilandia, which was busted by local police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in 1984. In Coronell's column following Uribe's flap with Guillen, the journalist backed up some of Vallejo's claims...
During the President's rounds on the radiowaves last week, Uribe and Coronell faced off live in an hour-long battle. "The only thing you do is shield yourself in your rights as a journalist," Uribe told Coronell, "so that ... you can wound me with lies. Enough of this cynicism behind your quote-unquote 'journalistic ethics...
Just hours after the Twin Towers were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Susan C. Faludi ’81 knew something fundamental had changed when a journalist who called her for a phone interview remarked, “This sure pushes feminism off the map!” That statement would prove to be portentous, the Pulitizer-Prize winning writer and feminist said at the Harvard Book Store on Oct. 5, because it signaled a substantial shift in the national psyche of the American society, press, and government.“The nation responded in ways…that...