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...understand that patients or their parents are often so worried about cancer that they don?t even want to utter the word. I also know that I am no mind reader and I can only answer questions if they are posed to me. The chief complaint may have been nosebleed, but their chief worry was leukemia...
...once said that the job of journalists is “only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.” These words nicely sum up The Crimson’s own journalistic mission to serve you, the reader, and the entire Harvard community by keeping you informed of developments that might affect your life as a Harvard student, professor, or curious onlooker. We report on public events, like a meeting of the Undergraduate Council or the announcement of a new College initiative. But at the heart...
...newspapers, and The Crimson in particular, retain that trust? By remembering that the reader comes first, and that we exist above all to serve our community. Nothing is journalism that “does not regard the reader...as a master to be served,” former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll has said. (The Crimson is, of course, different from professional papers like the Times in that it also has an educative function, and exists to train its reporters as journalists. These dual missions need not be exclusive of each other...
Second, we have to ensure that you the reader understand and trust the tough journalistic decisions that the editors make on a daily basis. A lot of thought goes into our decision to print the name of a student charged with a crime or to run a poll gauging student opinion. But we often do not explain those decisions to you, leaving the impression that we may be deaf to criticism...
...book’s lucid and plain language matches its fundamental nature as a guidebook and allows Dershowitz to walk the reader through his own thoughts on preemptive policy in a methodical, unpretentious...