Word: michael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods," Michael Herr writes in one of the essays in Dispatches. And indeed, for many of the journalists who covered the war, the assignment became a cruel kind of identity crisis, forcing them to reevaluate their methods of information gathering, and even their definitions of truth. In Vietnam, it was no longer enough for war correspondents to attend daily briefings in American forces' headquarters; it became apparent that the officers were lying outright about the number of American victories, in an effort to drum up support for the war back...
...such a situation, Michael Herr was lucky, and he knew it. Writing for Esquire meant that he could ignore the canons of establishment journalism; he could forget the official interviews with generals who spouted obvious lies, he could forget the press briefings. Vietnam didn't fit into the regular news style, but it fit Herr's. He was able to write long, first-person essays that were much more likely to capture the reality of the war than descriptions of troop movements. He could relate what the war was like from the troops' point of view, rather than the generals...
...suddenly improved. Rejecting the advice of militant shop stewards, Leyland's 100,000 car workers voted 2 to 1 for a package of bargaining reforms that holds at least some hope of ending labor anarchy. The results of the vote came on the first day in office of Michael Edwardes, who was named chairman by the government, getting his term off to an auspicious start...
...Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr...
While arresting a drug dealer in Coeur l'Alene, Idaho, one August night in 1972, Narcotics Agent Michael A. Caldero shot and wounded the suspect's companion, who tried to flee. He eventually recovered, the pusher was convicted, and the shooting incident went largely unquestioned-until Lewiston Tribune Reporter James E. ("Jay") Shelledy revived it a year later in a six-part series on the state drug enforcement agency...