Word: journalists
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Like carousers who do not want to know too much about what happened the night before, Americans tend to forget or downplay emotional binges like the idolization of MacArthur. I was talking with a young journalist at the height of 1987's spasm of "Olliemania," when Oliver North seemed -- to some -- to be speaking truth to power. The reporter said he had never seen anything like it -- and I tried to contrast the few weeks of Ollie with the months of MacArthur's heroization. There are many cases in America's recent past in which people have turned from...
...live coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions has been scheduled where many would say it belongs: on Comedy Central, the cable comedy channel. The anchor will be Saturday Night Live's Al Franken. Comedy Central plans to invite guest analysts ranging from Republican strategist Roger Ailes to gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson, as well as the candidates themselves. Entertainment is clearly the channel's first objective, but the producers insist their coverage will be informative too. "The hope is that by providing facts in this more appealing way, we will be seducing more people into this process," says Mary Salter...
...EVERY JOURNALIST DREAMS OF WORKING ON THE BIG STOry. Here at TIME that means reporting or writing a cover story. By that measure, veteran writers George Church and Ed Magnuson have had enough dreams realized to last a lifetime -- even if they live long enough to receive birthday greetings from Willard Scott. For Church and Magnuson are the only men in the magazine's history to have written more than 100 cover stories each...
...Slavoljub Djukic, author of a critical biography of Milosevic titled How the Leader Happened, which was published in Belgrade last month. "He is simply a man who loves power." Even his adoption of Serbian nationalism came only after he recognized its potential for personal advancement. Says Milos Vasic, a journalist for the Belgrade weekly Vreme: "If tomorrow he found it fit to be a Freemason, he'd be the grand master of the first Serbian lodge...
Diversity is no less important than "university," but we're getting force-fed one without the other. And as a straight, white, skinny, blue-eyed, pro-choice, Long Island raised, Clinton-supporting, commitment fearing male journalist with a gay roommate and a bad haircut, I'm worried...