Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Van Voorst finds covering defense and intelligence little different from other beats, "except that you need lots of quarters to call sources from pay phones." Says Van Voorst: "Intelligence is now a profession like any other. It is taught on university campuses and has its own association of retirees, which...
Pippert further argues that the political process stands to gain from ethical journalism. A firm believer in sabbaticals, he says that commonly accepted standards of his profession often damage the credibility of political reporting.
Usually there was nothing to see, except for a mass of highly trained adults, covering one of their profession's most coveted assignments, shifting their weight and waiting for the President like courtiers. All this for a simple TV visual or possibly and answer to a single question.
Or rather does not deal with it. His choice of profession summarizes his psychology: he becomes an anesthesiologist. Another way of putting it is that he tries his best to follow his family's tradition of quietism and indifference to large events. But Holland is a small country, and it...
At 51, Seiji Ozawa of the Boston Symphony is at the top of his profession. Yet the Japanese conductor remains a man of two worlds.