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...fixed my sights early on a newspaper career. Not only did reporting look like a lot of fun, but I believed that the journalist's unbiased facts could be the best weapons against the madness of the world...
Hume, a renowned journalist, is currently a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. me she'd tried to kill President Ford because she wanted to prove herself a real radical instead of being an FBI phony spying on the Bay Area's radical movement. Flying to Cambodia in the back of a cargo plane on Thanksgiving Day, 1979, I saw the Khmer Rouge's just-vacated torture chambers, the pits of bones, the killing fields. At the Three Mile Island nuclear accident I thought we all were going...
...chaotic life of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas could serve as a high-concept sequel to The Player, last year's scathing parody of movie industry manners. Fade in: A Hungarian emigre becomes a hotshot newspaper reporter in the 1960s, reinvents himself as a gonzo journalist and gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking...
...networks comes in as many flavors as there are positions in the Kama Sutra. If your taste runs to explicit pictures, there are thousands of them on such bulletin boards as Nixpix in Aspen, Colorado, and Odyssey in Monrovia, California. Jim Maxey, a former journalist and part-time private eye who runs the Event Horizons system in Lake Oswego, Oregon, grossed $3.5 million last year from computer users willing to pay $9 an hour to connect to his bulging database of R- and X-rated digital images and film loops...
...matter the official outcome, in most libel suits everyone loses. The aggrieved plaintiff seeking to restore his reputation winds up giving far wider, more enduring publicity to the very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...