Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another. My sympathy was with the demonstrators--that was well-established in my mind long before I went, and I felt no guilt about it. I was sure that I could still report the story accurately simply by making myself into a reporter--a quick metamorphosis from man to journalist, done every day. I had also established a rationale for covering the march but not marching--it was the role I could play best in this revolutionary movement...
...seemed almost as a purging action that the next week I sat in against Dow in Mallinckrodt, making it clear to my editor (and myself) before I went in that I was no longer a journalist--that...
Kraft's reaction to the press's anger in Chicago is shame. As a journalist schooled in the myth of objectivity, he seems to feel guilty after showing his feelings. And justifies his action by turning to still another meaningless journalistic cliche--that the reporter is the "agent of the sovereign public...
Justifications like that are unnecessary. A journalist is a man writing about events. He does not have to develop medians of fairness; he only has to convince himself that what he is writing is true. That is a very hard thing to do, and that is enough...
...JOURNALIST seems to be more at ease in justifying his writing than Norman Mailer. Mailer shows us the event by showing us how he reacts to the event. This style of personal reporting cannot be applied to all journalism, of course, but it is at least the direction that journalism should move now that objectivity has been exposed at Chicago...