Word: journalisting
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Electors. As you'll remember from high school civics, we don't actually vote for the President. We vote for the electors, who vote for the President. For an interesting take on the electors, read the fictional account that CNN journalist Jeff Greenfield wrote several years ago, on what might happen if the president-elect is killed by a horse. But no matter--we all know that the media picks the president, anyway...
...John McCain four years ago, while writing a book about the last presidential campaign. Our relationship began along the usual journalistic lines, but it soon grew into a genuine friendship. Friendship with a politician is corrupting for a journalist, of course. The obligations of friendship are forever colliding with the truth. But there are also advantages, even literary ones, to being a fallen journalist. For one, the view is better. While the uncorrupted journalist tends to witness only the most self-conscious moments in the lives of the politicians he writes about, a friend can get right in close. Here...
...Russian correspondent for Radio Liberty, the independent news organization spun off from the former, U.S.-backed Radio Free Europe. Babitsky was detained by Russian troops sometime in mid-January, while trying to leave Grozny, and was accused of being part of a guerrilla unit. This was nothing unusual for journalists covering the war, who are routinely subjected to such harassment by the Russian authorities as Moscow has tried to enforce its own Pollyannaish spin on a military campaign designed for domestic political consumption. "Foreign reporters are typically detained briefly while Russian reporters are often detained at length," says TIME Moscow...
...require a dark journey through the scary wilds of Russia's post-communist dystopia, but even Moscow's official version is alarming. "It's impossible right now to determine what has happened to Babitsky, but if you take the Russian government at its word, they handed over a Russian journalist to a group of hooded men Moscow regards as terrorists," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That means that neither his profession as a journalist nor his Russian citizenship meant anything to the Russian state. There's no question that the intended message to all reporters covering...
...tried to do The Crimson last semester, but it just didn't happen. I wanted to be a journalist most of my life, but it ended up taking too much time. I started concentrating in plays last year, and that took up ALL of my time. I do the costuming for plays. And that's all I ever do. You thought I played squash?! I don't even...