Word: shawcross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shrugs off any glorification of his approach, or his mastery of the Woodstein technique. "Investigative reporting is a stupid term," he says definitively. "Decent reporting is by definition investigative." For Shawcross, Sideshow was an extension of his earlier days on the Times' insight team...
...wrote what many say is history at its best, Shawcross doesn't like to look behind. He worries about what is going on in Cambodia now. He worries about British reporters who, bound and gagged by that country's Official Secrets Act, will never gain access to documents that Americans can poke into...
...essentially British Shawcross adopted the United States, and his experience with Sideshow hardened an already-suspicious nature. Disturbed by President Carter's recent call for increased CIA activities, he declared that the Freedom of Information Act--the lifeblood of his work--must be broadened. Angered by the Supreme Court's decision to keep Kissinger's memoirs under wraps in the sacred tombs of the Library of Congress, he hopes that other people will do for the rest of Kissinger's work what he did for Cambodia...
...When Shawcross spoke this week to a crowd at the Kennedy School, a few in the audience nodded off, bored by the author's lengthy textual analysis of White House Years. If Shawcross displayed his wit at times, there was none of the emotion that the crowd had come to see. Shawcross read whole passages, compared them to others and concluded that Kissinger doesn't always tell the truth. Kissinger, his speech told us, is a target it will take more than one Sideshow to uncover. Shawcross realizes this and he goes about his task ponderously, like a coach looking...
...frustrating task, for Shawcross has seen the American system at its most perverted. Willie Shawcross went to Washington and to Phnom Penh as an outsider, trying to find out what the hell was going on. Eight years later Shawcross has seen the guts of our political system turned inside out, pock-marked by the Cambodian experience and the work of some not-so-moral men. Shawcross has gone back to Washington to produce a series of long articles on the current situation in Cambodia for The Post; "it's hard to walk away from Cambodia," he admits. But the endless...