Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though both writers were raised in black middle-class communities by parents who emphasized education and achievement, the sensibilities and sensitivities that inform their respective journeys are markedly different. Where journalist Nelson is angry and agitated, attorney Parker is searching and painfully revealing. Nelson seeks common cause with all black women, whom she sees as suffering from a collective case of "invisibility and erasure"; Parker strives to delineate individuals, appreciating the "thousands of moments that [make] us fundamentally different from each other." Nelson remonstrates, with fist-in-the-air rhetoric leavened by wry humor; Parker demonstrates, depicting each moment with...
...Budde. But Paul Steiger, the print Journal's editor, has a better idea: Let anyone who wants to declare themselves a news outlet. "If they're going to let Bill Gates or one of his minions decide, we're not going to participate," he says. Spoken like a true journalist...
...stressed-out journalist, I'm grateful to be done with this week's writing, and I'm going to celebrate with water and a slice of lemon. Maybe it will do. Simple abundance, one day at a time...
...understand such sensitivity, especially since the studio that's distributing Contact is part of the same conglomerate that owns CNN (and TIME). As a stuffy journalist, I can only hope that the discontent with the "blurring" of news and entertainment might also take root in the world of prime-time news programming, in which dramatic music, hyped-up promos and film-noir lighting techniques are multiplying like hostile extraterrestrials...
...sure; but in today's world, could we really expect an internationally known freedom fighter like Victor Laszlo to leave a hotbed of international intrigue without the press's following his every move? No way. How much more credible would that movie be today if a veteran journalist--me, for instance--showed up for the finale on the tarmac. "Ted, I think--yes, that is Victor Laszlo approaching the airplane... He seems to be with two other people... There's a woman, a very attractive dark-haired woman, and... I believe the man wearing the trench coat is the proprietor...