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...Pressing Tony Blair I was pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of on-air sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach?the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with scripted and misleading answers...
...Buckley Bennington, Vermont, U.S. Pressing Tony Blair I was pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of on-air sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach - the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with...
...pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach--the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with misleading answers. It would be a joy to see Paxman grill...
...Patients like Willie face a terrible fate. Relentless and always fatal, MND kills motor neurones, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that activate muscles. As muscles stop working, sufferers lose the ability to speak, walk and even cough, but their minds remain alert, horribly aware of the spreading paralysis. No one knows what causes the disease, and most patients die when their breathing fails. By late last year, with Willie unable to speak and finding it so hard to swallow she could barely eat, the couple were willing to try anything...
...Hopes that the insurgency might be waning in the wake of January's elections have proved premature. It appears to have been retooling and reorganizing, launching a blistering wave of attacks that range from full-blown daylight assaults by guerrilla units to relentless terror strikes on Shiite and Kurdish civilians. More than 200 people have been killed in insurgent attacks since last Friday, and Baghdad sees an average of 20 insurgent attacks...