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Wilbert Rideau, 51, has been imprisoned since 1962 at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, serving a life sentence for murder. During that time, Rideau has gained renown as a journalist, author and advocate of prison reform. In a conversation with TIME Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury, Rideau gave a scathing critique of the prison system...
...reading, horsing around -- normal boy stuff. He also sat up nights pondering the 64 squares. He watched gaunt gladiators play speed chess for drug money in Washington Square Park in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He studied with Pandolfini and played tournaments under the loving, sometimes jealous, eye of his journalist father Fred. By his eighth birthday, Josh was the top-ranked player of his age. Today, at 16, he still is. And the 1984 book Fred wrote about Josh is now a motion picture. Both have the title Searching for Bobby Fischer, but they could be called Finding a Wise...
Breathes there a journalist with soul so pure that he or she would turn down all that? Doubtful. Those of us who scribble for a living have demonstrated that if you scratch us, you'll find a TV personality waiting, with batting eyelashes, to be discovered. For all of print's tut-tutting about TV, the most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing...
...There is way too much street language," says Gleason Ledyard, a Christian book publisher. He says some people will be offended. Journalist P.K. McCary, who translated the first five books of the Old Testament into slang, insists that she is not "dissin' the Almighty." She has written biblical poetry and essays and developed the book by telling stories to children in Atlanta and Houston. The 39-year-old single mother believes she's filling a void. "While this is slang, it is not irreverent," she says. "It's a dramatic, colorful way of speaking. I think teenagers are going...
...Journalist as P.R. Agent...