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...degree in History and Literature but had no clue what to do with it. A brief stint as a paralegal turned her off of a career in law, but her knack for grammar landed her a job in journalism. Soon she was editing for The Army Times, the media outlet for the armed forces. That led to a gig news editing at The Washington Post. There, while casually talking to superior about an advice columnist who neither of them liked, Hax blurted out, “What you really need is a snotty 30-year-old writing the column...
...Remember, this was not Osama bin Laden sitting down for a chat with Connie Chung. It was in fact a terrorist infomercial, a homemade tape saying exactly what they wanted to say with no mediation and no annoying journalist to ask questions. Yet every American television news outlet chose to air it in full and unedited as though it were Osama Live...
...Wednesday issued a statement condemning the Sept. 11 attacks but expressing concern that the air raids on Afghanistan could lead to further suffering by innocents. And also warning the U.S. against extending its fight to Iraq. Most Arab moderate regimes are tolerating peaceful anti-American demonstrations as an outlet for popular anger. But the longer the U.S. campaign persists, the deeper the discomfort of its Arab allies. And if Palestinian radicals choose to challenge Arafat by escalating attacks on Israel and Israel retaliates with a heavy hand, Arab regimes may find their alliance with Washington being fiercely challenged...
...Gulf War belonged to CNN, this newest fight is the province of an upstart Arab cable news channel called Al Jazeera. The Qatar-based station is the only media outlet with a correspondent and cameras in Kabul, and it has scored significant coups in broadcasting statements from Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda organization after the attack. Too significant, from the Bush Administration point of view; the White House Wednesday asked media outlets to exercise restraint in showing al Qaeda video because it may contain secret messages to terrorists...
...government department should question whether to allow its irresponsible professor to prejudice the academic record of a full class of concentrators in order to soothe his wounded conscience—and should intervene if necessary to ensure that students’ transcripts don’t become an outlet for Mansfield’s political crusade...