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...never really get used to suicide bombings, but in parts of the world where they happen a least once a week, they form a part of the backdrop of a journalist's life along with rocket attacks, IED blasts and the possibility of kidnappings. I've seen my fair share of blood and broken bodies, but somehow I feel like it won't happen...
...Questions with Ted Kennedy but also a puff piece on someone even to the left of Hillary Clinton: Dennis Kucinich. Good God. Don't even get me started on Joe Klein's In the Arena column. Then I have to plod thru the liberal whinings of a "journalist" about which kind of apple makes him feel better or more "connected" to his food. Who gives a rat's ass where an apple comes from? I guess the answer is liberals--they dwell on the topic in a cover story...
...teenagers reflexively put up their hands—and the Americans respond by throwing the both off the bridge. One drowns. It’s a shocking incident, and the film sets out to unravel its repercussions. The boy’s funeral, complete with stilted expository dialogue from journalist-turned-screenwriter Wendell Steavenson and faux Middle Eastern music by Jeff Beal, is meant to point at the strained social hierarchy in Samarra. Yet just as the film is taking shape as a careful exposition of Iraqi local politics, it changes course, styling itself as both thriller and romance. Enter...
...about in old spy novels set in the Soviet Union. The dictator's network of spies and informants was reputed to reach into every neighborhood, every home, every family; so Iraqis - whether top government officials or the man in the street - were afraid to speak their mind to a journalist. It didn't help that I was always accompanied by a state-appointed minder, whose job was to ensure that nobody told me anything that might reflect poorly on the great leader. Whatever I asked, whoever I asked it of, the answers would be carefully calibrated to become an homage...
...general I think that as a journalist my comparative advantage is a skill at asking questions rather than providing ringing answers,” he said...