Word: kurtz
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Leopold and Stanley were certainly not the only villains in this story; even the infamous Mr. Kurtz of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness makes an appearance. Specifically, Hochschild has found no less than three men who could feasibly have served as models for the character of Kurtz. One of these men, Leon Rom, was station chief at Stanley Falls, on which Conrad's "Inner Station" may be based, and kept 21 heads as a decoration around his flower bed. But Hochschild makes an important distinction--he asserts that while Conrad's tale may have many levels of literary significance...
...keep quiet, he told TIME Daily -- in fact, the Washington Post learned that Broder was unhappy only when they were given his name by David Talbot himself. Broder says he had taken several calls about the Hyde story -- and delivered as many "no comments" -- when the Post's Howard Kurtz told him that Talbot had identified him as the loudest internal dissenter to the story. "He put my name into the public arena," says Broder. "I had never told them I would keep quiet, but I did until then...
...Talbot says he ordered Jonathan Broder not to talk about the story -- Broder says he never agreed to that. When Broder told to Washington Post media harpy Howard Kurtz that he "objected to it on journalistic grounds, on grounds of fairness and because of the way Salon would be perceived," Talbot blew his stack, and Broder was gone. But should Talbot have made such a demand in the first place? The editor says that the magazine was under enough fire as it was -- bomb threats, congressional attacks, press hue and cry -- and that Salon didn't need any more...
...long run, however, Starr's greater sin may be naming the three reporters his office "spoke extensively" with -- Susan Schmidt of the Washington Post, Jackie Judd at ABC and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff. The Post's media guru Howard Kurtz talks of a "genuine sense of discomfort in media ranks" that Starr would simply name names so easily. Even more discomforting for the all-day news networks: Their grand jury sources have suddenly dried up. For once, no one knows in advance which witness will appear Tuesday. Looks like Johnson's verbal spanking is working already...
Brill has stocked the magazine with impressive talent, hiring writers and editors from such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and TIME (former chief political correspondent Michael Kramer is Brill's No. 2 editor). Washington Post media critic (and author of Spin Cycle) Howard Kurtz will be a contributor, as will former FCC chairman Reed Hundt and humorist Calvin Trillin. Brill has even hired an in-house ombudsman: former New York Times editor Bill Kovach, head of the Nieman journalism fellowships at Harvard, will critique Content's own articles...