Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILFRED BURCHETT does not look like a radical journalist. In fact, he looks more like a conservative businessman. But when he opens an interview by pointing to a nearby poster of Ho Chi Minh and says, "Ah, my good friend," it becomes easier to recognize in him the man who has been covering revolutionary movements sympathetically since the late...
...correspondent alive, by covering an area where Burchett was supposed to be with nerve gas. (Apparently, the U.S. authorities thought Burchett could disclose the whereabouts of American prisoners of war.) Burchett is aware of the risk he ran: he refers several times in Grasshoppers to Paul Leandre, a French journalist whom Burchett claims the Saigon police killed because he revealed the use of particularly hideous weapons against civilians. But he shrugs off any claims to heroism, saying simply, "Well, I didn't find out 'til long afterwards [about the attempts to capture...
...will begin working in earnest on a book on the American media after he finishes with his promotional activities for the Nixon book. Price, who maintains that he often had doubts about the professional standards followed by fellow members of the fourth estate during his 15 years as a journalist, offers a variety of proposals to bring institutional change to American media. Reporters should strive for more honesty in stating their degrees of certainty about the "facts" they report in stories; the seven major national media organizations--The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek and the three major...
...years as a journalist, Walter Cronkite has covered his share of wars, assassinations, summit conferences and space shots, but few scoops were as sweet as this one. "There was a lot of desk-slapping and hot-diggity-damns around here," the anchorman beamed, after Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin were shown agreeing, on Cronkite's CBS Evening News last Monday, to schedule their historic meeting in Jerusalem. Says Cronkite: "We knew we were on top of something...
Cronkite has no plans to extend his brief but successful career in international mediation. "I don't think a journalist should become involved in high-level diplomacy," he says, "but it is a journalist's duty to pursue these diplomatic pronouncements. I wasn't trying to get this meeting started. My official attitude is I couldn't care less about it, though I can't help believing it will be important and helpful. Maybe we [at CBS] were catalysts. But then, maybe they would have gotten together without...