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Last week, even as the A.B.A. and the Catholic Church were coming out in favor of looser lips, free-lance journalist Vanessa Leggett remained in prison in Texas for refusing to turn over her confidential reporting on an unsolved Houston society murder. Texas doesn't have a "shield law," as some states do, protecting journalists from court orders to hand over their notes, and her First Amendment arguments have so far been rejected. Leggett, who could be imprisoned for up to 18 months, is a powerful reminder that no matter what the rules, there's still one sure...
...When I was stationed as a journalist in Beijing in the late 1980s, I was stunned by how citizens still viewed non-Chinese as exotic, often frightening creatures. When I visited the northern city of Hengshui, one of what were then hundreds of areas officially "closed" to foreigners, a local bureaucrat seized my shortwave radio from my hotel room, examining it to ensure that it wasn't a two-way spy communications device. A memo accidentally left behind in my room instructed officials to "politely refuse any request Mr. Ignatius may have to leave the hotel." Suspicion of the outside...
...only way for a Moscow-based journalist to get a guaranteed summer break, in the early '90s, was to go on vacation when Mikhail Gorbachev did. Leave him alone for 24 hours, someone joked, and he would dissolve another part of the Evil Empire. This theory blew up in our faces in August 1991, when the Soviet leadership's old guard made a last, despairing attempt to turn back time by seizing power in the name of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom...
...country?s unrecognized status was the primary concern of Ali Warande, Somaliland's minister of information, on a recent afternoon. "Recognize us," he urged. "Look how well we are doing compared to the rest of Somalia." I was interviewing Warande, along with a BBC TV journalist, in the sitting room of his modest house in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic. After a brief discussion, we asked him if we could see his pets, which include four cheetahs and a lion. Sure, said the minister, "I'll show you how I play with them." Outside he let the lion...
...both to promulgate the fairy tale. Anyone who searches for the Kennedy myth machine will probably spot Mrs. Kennedy at its center. It was she who invoked Camelot as the symbol of her husband's Administration in the days after his death. In her grief, she summoned a worshipful journalist, Theodore White, and told him that her husband loved the musical Camelot, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and would play the title song as he fell asleep at night. No one knows whether this is true--Lerner, a lifelong friend of Jack Kennedy's, doubted it--but White...