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Lamb, a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, is best known as the author of useful and well-regarded introductions to some of the many worlds he has mastered (The Arabs, The Africans). In Vietnam, Now, he describes how, having covered the war as a journalist in his 20s and returned to witness the fall of Saigon, he went to Hanoi in 1997 to open his paper's bureau there, becoming the only American newspaperman to cover Vietnam at war and Hanoi at peace. The opposite of a jaded war correspondent, Lamb captures the country he came...
...muggy afternoon in Suginami, an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Tokyo, and Keiichi Onizawa was strolling home from the train station. The 68-year-old journalist was alone on a quiet street sheltered by cherry trees along the Kanda River. Suddenly, he heard footsteps, then a loud voice: "You bastard!" Onizawa turned around to see two muscular young men rushing him. The shorter, stockier one swung an iron pipe at his head; Onizawa blocked it but the metal tore into his arm. A second blow ripped through his shirt and the flesh on his shoulder. For good measure, the taller...
Jerry's love of journalism and consistent defense of its highest principles have made him the best associate any editor could have. As I said at the time, "Although not a journalist, in his 30 years here Jerry has thought like one, and acted like one." We will miss Jerry as a friend and a colleague, and vow to uphold the principles he holds dear. We wish him the best in his next adventures...
...They boxed themselves into a corner such that they couldn’t even get news from the government,” he says. “What you want to do as a journalist is that you want to have access to everybody. You have to have the facts and you have to argue from the facts...
...atmosphere of freedom actually put more responsibility on you as a journalist,” he says. “You have a lot of work to do as part of the reconstruction of that society...