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Born in Canada, MacNeil was an aspiring actor and playwright before joining Reuters in London in 1955. From 1960 on, he was a TV journalist, notably on foreign assignments for NBC. By 1971 he was in public television, where he and Lehrer co-anchored the network's coverage of the Watergate hearings. He started the Robert MacNeil Report in 1975, which evolved into the 30-minute MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1976 and, by 1983, became the full-fledged MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour...
This erstwhile sports journalist couldn't put it much better than that...
Although he is a personable guy and proved beyond doubt a remarkable ability to ask tough questions, his conduct at the debate was more suited for a prosecutor than a journalist...
...dustbin of history overfloweth in Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium (Knopf; 332 pages; $24). After journeying 40,000 miles through the crumbling Soviet + Union between 1989 and 1991, the Polish journalist leaves the gloomy impression that debris is piling up faster than it can be removed. The windows of his railroad car frame pictures of rusted tanks and artillery sinking in the mud. From the air, polluted lakes stare back like the cloudy eyes of dead fish. At the Yerevan airport, Kapuscinski finds four broken toilets and hundreds of travelers awaiting flights for days and sometimes weeks...
...police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets. Another slammed his truncheon onto the unprotected skull of a house painter, killing him. "This is not Europe, my friend," said a Haitian to a nearby journalist. "This is hell...