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Around this time every year I am called by some journalist working on a Father's Day story. "I understand you write about parenting," the reporter says, "so I'm wondering: If you could select one person in the nation who qualifies as the year's best dad, who would...
...around. Just f___ off!" a soldier yelled at an Iraqi who was trying to visit the regional governor's residence in Kirkuk last week. (Every Iraqi, sadly, already knows the F word.) "The American soldier is, please excuse the word, very high-handed," says Abu Mousa, a veteran Iraqi journalist. Much more worrisome: some Iraqis believe the U.S. troops are light-fingered too. "They raid houses and take any money they can find," says Abufawaz Khazal, a former government scientist. "It's clear that [U.S. soldiers] are working with the local black marketeers," says a businessman in Baghdad. "They take...
...Reading Between The Lies," your article on Jayson Blair, the journalist who resigned from the New York Times after it was revealed that he plagiarized and fabricated stories [PRESS, May 19], was interesting and balanced until you quoted a Times senior manager as saying the paper sometimes hires minority reporters whose experience is "significantly below" what the paper would normally require. To include this statement without additional corroboration from other Times personnel was careless and offensive to black journalists. LASHAWN Y. HAND Philadelphia...
...Naturally, when the cops were confronted with real, bad guys?terrorists who last year committed a rash of bombings and the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl?this squeeze-them-until-they-squeal approach got them nowhere. Agents from the FBI brought in for the Pearl case and the U.S. consulate bombing were also less than impressed by such techniques, according to a Western diplomat. A police officer admits that at first his men were also afraid of the extremists, who had informers inside the police force. They were also well equipped, he says, with guns smuggled across the lawless...
...more comes out of that offer than just an entertaining class, I can “retire” a happy and fulfilled man. For four years, I was a sportswriter for The Crimson. And no, that doesn’t mean that I need to be a professional journalist to justify all the time I spent in college pursuing that passion. It means that, in many ways, I’ve already been a professional journalist and worked with many others who also share in this dedication and love. And, although we may be parting ways forever with...