Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brandeis University Donald Woods, L.H.D., South African journalist. In exile you live in the hearts of your oppressed countrymen...
...journalist's job is to make the important interesting. But it isn't easy: just look at those dull graphics behind any network anchorman as he nightly tries to animate a subject like inflation. Boredom isn't something journalists like to acknowledge; it is merely endured. That ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times," wouldn't seem a curse to a journalist. Editors deal in novelty and discovery; the negative and less talked-about side of this is knowing when to spare the reader the overfamiliar. Newsweek editors were once oddly attached...
...ideas on quantifying and manipulating human behavior from chillingly over scientific thinkers like Mark, Ervin and Sweet. He is a muckraker--not in the present pejorative sense of needlessly digging out past personal scandals of celebrities, but in the sense of following the fine old tradition of the crusading journalist seeking out corruption or abuse of power wherever it may occur and exposing that evil to the timeless cure of fresh air and sunlight. His book brings out a creeping fascism: in what he sees as a slow rise in scientists' and physicians' willingness to regard human beings simply...
...case studies will include ethical problems, Johnston said. One such case will examine the problems a reporter encounters when he comes across some important information that might compromise the identity of a CIA agent abroad. A law school professor, a journalist and a judge will moderate this discussion, he added...
...providing the public with the news. Far more important are the decision's ramifications on news gathering itself. When law officials burst in unannounced, their thorough search of the paper's premises poses a serious threat to confidentiality of the news sources. The court's decision might bar a journalist from being able to promise confidentiality to potential sources, thus severely restricting journalists'--and hence the public's--access to information...