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...Journalists are not often idealized or romanticized these days. Rather the reverse. Journalists' poll numbers are low. They have a corrupted image of lowest-common-denominator tabloid sensationalism, of superficiality and bias. Commentators, left and right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl - not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...
...more personal style. If this was "concerned photography," it was concerned not with social conditions but psychic ones--boredom, isolation, acidity, glee, the feral thrusts of the libido and a weirdly sinister expectancy. His new work owed less to Evans and Dorothea Lange than it did to the tabloid-news photographer Weegee, the king of every New York...
...liquor store owner has hired Harvard Law School Prof. Alan Dershowitz to get his conviction overturned,” the New York tabloid wrote in a Feb. 18 story...
...Bakken and Flowers were able to stay comfortably in the shade even after all teams began training in Salt Lake as, through no fault of her own, Racine continued down the twisty tabloid course. Back home in Michigan, her father David was facing a charge of sexual child abuse, the allegation involving a 13-year-old friend of Jean's younger sister. Then Saturday, Gea Johnson busted a hamstring on a training run. This time, Racine made a strange decision: rather than putting athletic potential above friendship and replace Johnson with a healthy alternate, she would keep...
...TAIWAN Scandalous The tawdry tale now gripping Asia is of a former mayor who secretly filmed his ex-girlfriend having sex with another man. A friend then sold the tape to a tabloid, which gave copies to readers in December. Last week, prosecutors filed invasion-of-privacy charges against Tsai Jen-Chien, Kuo Yu-Ling and nine newspaper staffers. The ex-girlfriend, reporter-turned-politician Chu Mei-Feng, published a tell-all book last week and has topped Web portal Lycos' list of most popular search terms for two weeks...