Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plimpton, now 50 and frail, was 31 and frail. Friends had goaded him with the mischievous argument that if he was really serious about participatory journalism, he should fight a professional boxer. There was a nice, traditional quality to the idea. Hemingway had gone many rounds with pugs, and Journalist Paul Gallico once had his fillings loosened by Jack Dempsey...
There is, of course, much more crammed inside that Mount Rushmore noggin. Sevareid was among the most articulate, most literate and most judicious of television sages. In a farewell address last week, he summed up some of the lessons he has learned in a half-century as a journalist. Prominent among them: "To retain the courage of one's doubts, as well as one's convictions, in this world of dangerously passionate certainties...
...half years as the Toronto Globe and Mail's man in Peking, Ross H. Munro has been reprimanded by Chinese officials, described to visiting journalists as a troublemaker and pointedly excluded from press trips around the country. That was even before he wrote a candid and widely reprinted series on human rights in China, or rather the absence thereof. Now Munro has received the ultimate rebuke: Chinese officials have informed the Globe and Mail that "for obvious reasons" Munro's visa, due to expire Dec. 23, will not be renewed, and he will have to leave Peking...
...Walter Cronkite served as a kind of electronic matchmaker in helping to set up the visit-though it undoubtedly would have occurred in any case. During Sadat's flight from Cairo three of his four journalist guests* on the plane were ABC's Barbara Walters ("Barbara, so you did come!"), Cronkite and NBC's John Chancellor. For three days the late 20th century's video technology monitored the principals in one of the planet's oldest enmities, as they performed for the world on their biblical home ground. The effect was eerie and complicated. Sometimes...
...seem to be over. Burchett has his own audience now, people who have come to know and respect his work; in fact, The Guardian has a special fund for him, through which donors can help sponsor his work. At this point, Burchett appears to be a well-established unestablishment journalist. If anyone deserves that position, he does, if only because he has spent almost 40 years faithfully covering the world's revolutions from the side of the oppressed...