Word: journalists
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...balding journalist of whom Roger Ebert once jokingly noted, "You know, his scalp is so prominent, it's worthy of its own zip code." But all joking aside, film critic Gene Siskel was indeed a worthy man in many respects. The "Jake" to Ebert's "Fat Man," Siskel was a prominent entertainment journalist at The Chicago Tribune for 30 years as well as co-host of the syndicated movie review program Siskel & Ebert. Last Saturday, he died at age 53 of ongoing complications from surgery performed on his brain ten months...
Jeff Ballinger, a freelance journalist, spokeabout his experiences researching sweatshops inIndonesia...
Last week, just as MADONNA signed on to play an intrusive tabloid reporter in an upcoming film, ROBIN WRIGHT PENN was starring in Message in a Bottle, a film in which she too plays an intrusive journalist. Have the wives of Sean Penn forgotten how much they hate the press? A summary to date...
...Hitchens is a tweedy contrarian from the British upper classes, a page of Evelyn Waugh brought to Washington. His Oxonian socialism led him to bash Princess Diana after her death and demonize Mother Teresa in a scathing book. The sharp-elbowed Blumenthal made enemies as a rabidly pro-Clinton journalist, and even more as the Clintons' lofty--some would say supercilious--ambassador to the White House press corps. But the real question is Who's winning? Hitchens took an early lead. His wife Carol Blue (who is--surprise!--a Washington writer) offered an affidavit saying she was also...
Although the article concerns the case of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania, the real argument here is about the death penalty. The phrase "Mumia should fry" illustrates unadulterated, bloodthirsty vengeance, based on the Old Testament...