Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schorr's decision to approach the book as a journalist was instinctive, but it was also wise. The attempt at objectivity enhances the book, providing the reader with a fuller story and a clearer perspective than mere reminiscence...
...Daniel Schorr, a life-long journalist, the question was simple. Could the U.S. House of Representative force him to reveal the name of the person from whom he had obtained a classified report...
...journalist, the most crucial kind of confidence is the identity of a source of information. To betray a confidential source would mean to dry up many future sources for many reporters. The reporter and news organization would be the immediate losers, but I would submit to you that the ultimate losers would be the American people and their free institutions...
Many of Munro's dispatches are accompanied by pictures taken by his wife Julie. They have not experienced the intimidation that is sometimes inflicted upon Western correspondents in Moscow, where the government has been known to harass foreign reporters (it expelled an American journalist on currency-violation charges earlier this year). When the Chinese want to express their displeasure with a correspondent they do so simply by ignoring him?and living in Peking without access to the bureaucracy or permission to travel can be like being stranded on some barren planet...
...Journalist Michael Herr, 37, writes about this war while admitting that "people don't even want to hear about it." Happily, he does not take the next step and insist that people damn well ought to hear about it for their own good. Nor does he justify his work by parading Santayana's maxim about the uses of history; instead, he deflates it: "Those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it too." He preaches no sermons, draws no morals, enters no ideological disputes. He simply suggests that some stories must be told-not because they will...