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Despite King's monumental ego, when he sits down in front of a microphone or camera to conduct an interview, he seems to undergo a personality change. Suddenly, his favorite subject -- himself -- is no longer on the table. "I don't consider myself a journalist," King says, "but journalism results from what I do." In other words, he doesn't try to elicit facts so much as feelings, emotions, motives. "I like questions that begin with 'why' and 'how,' and I listen to the answers, which leads to more questions." It works: when Perot on his CNN Larry King Live...
...ULTIMATE IRONY OF THE SPARRING BETWEEN FICtional journalist Murphy Brown and real-life Vice President Dan Quayle is that it serves the purposes of one of America's greatest entrepreneurs: Murphy Brown TV series creator Diane English. Last week's season opener, pumped up by weeks of publicity, drew an enormous 44 million viewers to a special hour-long episode. Quayle's rebuke of the sitcom for supposedly glamourizing single moms was challenged by such scripted scolding from star Candice Bergen as, "Perhaps it's time for the Vice President to recognize that families come in all shapes and sizes...
...Nieman Foundation yesterday presented its Lyons Award for conscience and integrity in journalism to Haitian journalist Jean Mario Paul...
...suspended aid. Now, in the congressional elections that Fujimori has called for Nov. 22, candidates who back him are expected to | win big, and they could help him enshrine strong presidential powers in a new constitution. The capture may also ensure his re-election. Warns Gustavo Gorriti, a Peruvian journalist and expert on Sendero who lives in the U.S. but was briefly detained in Peru after the Fujimori coup: "The fall of Guzman, the main enemy of democracy, is paradoxically going to do a lot of harm to democracy in the short term by strengthening Fujimori...
...philosopher and a painter who regarded Stalin as insufficiently revolutionary. In 1962 Guzman was given a philosophy post at Huamanga University in Ayacucho, where he used his teaching pulpit to indoctrinate students. He was profoundly influenced by Mao's Cultural Revolution, which he witnessed firsthand. "At some point," says journalist Gustavo Gorriti, "he persuaded himself that he was not only a qualified leader but had both a national and a world responsibility." Scholars differ about Guzman's intellectual gifts, but they agree that he was an outstanding organizer who was capable of great charm and attentiveness...