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That did not seem like sheer hysteria by Friday, when we learned that Tom Brokaw's assistant at NBC had tested positive for anthrax after opening a threatening letter with powder inside. At that moment the New York Times was being evacuated after another letter rained powder in the newsroom; this one was addressed to bioterrorism expert Judith Miller. Initial testing showed no sign of anthrax, but the threat still seemed real, and cunning. You didn't need to shoot the messengers; you just needed to scare them to death, because fear is bacterial as well. It can spread...
...seven-month-old son of an ABC news producer is reportedly doing "very well" after being diagnosed with cutaneous anthrax. The boy, who visited the ABC newsroom late last month, is taking antibiotics, as are all ABC news employees who work in or around the newsroom...
...chasing down a sound bite from Acting Gov. Jane Swift. And since Sept. 11, instead of sitting on the couch of a common room filled with people I trust, letting tears well in the corners of my eyes as they may, I have experienced this tragedy in a newsroom staffed by professionals armed with a seemingly unlimited reporting budget and who are unfettered by the distractions of college life...
...dirty. Reporters swarmed around Logan in Boston, Ground Zero in New York and the Pentagon in D.C., trailing anyone who might provide a clue to the investigation. In the Globe newsroom, the bureau chief angrily turned off the TV when CNN claimed to have a list of passengers the Globe thought it had first...
...paper's irreverent Style section, Graham had to face at night the very powers that Sally Quinn was skewering by day. Graham never killed a story, although she occasionally rolled her eyes in sympathy with a deflated pol. At the paper she was a regular presence in the newsroom, even taking classified ads during the violent pressmen's strike of the mid-'70s. She visited the child-care centers she funded, folding her 6-ft. frame into many a kiddie-size chair. Last week, at an elite retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, after lunch with Tom Hanks and before dinner...