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...Summers Tennis Watch seemed as useless as the doubles alleys in a singles match. And then, out of the blue, the word came...the Prez was ready to play. Incredibly, as the following Nixon Tapes-esque transcript of a Crimson interview with Summers shows, three “journalists?? whose greatest previous accomplishment was the periodic production of “Gossip Guy” had peer-pressured the former Secretary of the Treasury...
Maybe I am overreacting to what is not, in fact, a situation that needs correction. Perhaps there is, in fact, nothing wrong with journalists??—as opposed to academics’—borrowing a few words here and there from their colleagues. Perhaps I am hyper-sensitized to issues such as this because of my current hybrid identity as both an academic and a journalist (although if that were the case, one might expect the same fastidiousness from Krugman, who happens to be an economist at Princeton in addition to his role...
Mavroleon is one of the journalists interviewed in Dying to Tell the Story, a documentary exploring what compels war-zone journalists??licensed idiots, as one reporter describes himself and colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host...
...idea of objective news coverage doesn’t come from authority alone, or from journalists?? profound moral superiority over the rest of us. Rather, it comes from accountability and the opportunity for false information to be corrected elsewhere, something lacking in countries without a free press; from the comparison of information from different sources with different interests; from requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims; from providing a forum for criticism and being willing to accept...