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...known for years that the journalism business was on the verge of blowing its top. Now it's been done in full view of the country. We have seen supposedly responsible newspapers give over Page One to Donald and Ivana Trump on the same day that Nelson Mandela returned to Soweto and the Allies of World War II agreed to the unification of Germany...
...inevitably, the cloud of the new celebrity journalism hangs now over even the most rarefied atmosphere in our profession, the New York Times. Forget how confused the Times was about what to do with the Trump story. In that same week the Times also found the need to review Nelson Mandela's performance. SOME FIND MANDELA'S VISION LIMITED, said the headline, four days after the man had emerged from 27 years in the African Gulag. Mandela had himself become a celebrity to be regarded through the cynical eye of this New Journalism, the subject of its infectious, abbreviated tone...
Jesse Jackson is one black leader who over the years has consistently preached self-help. Now he warns, "Our failure to become introspective and responsible takes away our moral authority." Nelson Mandela worked the same vein last week: "All students must return to school and learn." The lesson of Glory, proceeding out of black history, is that blacks are not powerless in the face of racism or poverty. The battles fought and won by earlier generations of blacks were immensely more difficult than those that face most blacks today...
Hero. Unifier. Healer. Savior. Could any one man -- let alone one who has been cut off from the flow of daily life for more than 27 years -- live up to such billing? Nelson Mandela did not disappoint last week as he walked out of 10,000 days in prison right into the thick of South African politics...
...both sides, the cost of unification begins to sink in. -- In a TIME interview, Nelson Mandela talks about a negotiated future. -- From Tadzhikistan, an exclusive report on an Islam-tinged revolt...