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...also dangerous work. Eight journalists have died in Afghanistan since September. A total of 37 were killed last year, 24 the year before. Journalists are sometimes naive about their own safety, prone to an illusion that they are either bulletproof or invisible. In the mid-'60s, I walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters...
...roomful of fledgling journalists if they would be willing to die for the truth, and not a hand will be raised. They do not mean no, exactly. They simply give the hypothesis a pocket veto. They think, for one thing, that the question is too darkly phrased and even implies an obscure promise of martyrdom - not normally the journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their...
PAKISTAN Death of a Journalist The U.S. State Department announced it had video evidence that kidnapped U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl had been murdered. Pakistan's President Musharraf vowed to hunt down his killers. President Bush said such crimes strengthened U.S. resolve to fight terrorism. Earlier in the week the Administration adopted a new policy on U.S. citizens kidnapped overseas, allowing for direct intervention. Pearl was abducted Jan. 23 in Karachi by a group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty...
...nature of that evil is explored in an absorbing, meticulously-researched account of how the 1943-55 quasi-fascist regime led by Argentine dictator Juan Perón spirited thousands of wanted war criminals from Europe. The author of The Real Odessa (Granta, 382 pages), Buenos Aires journalist and TIME contributor Uki Goñi, manages to arouse a new sense of shock about this episode...
...part of the continuing controversy over workers’ wages at Harvard, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) hosted journalist Barbara Ehrenreich on Friday to discuss her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America...