Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...decided to conspire in order to take a look over the wall of camouflage, denials and lies. The method I adopted was only slightly illegal by comparison with the illegal deceptions and manouevres which I unmasked...
...WALLRAFF'S TECHINIQUE to be dismissed so lightly as Bradlee suggests? One advantage of Wallraff's method has emerged with the current controversy over Woodward and Armstrong's book The Brethren, where to prevent the betrayal of confidential sources, their evidence is unverified and must be taken on faith. Because Wallraff's sources act involuntarily, there is no need to protect them, and he can thus offer full disclosure of sources and documentation of his evidence...
Nevertheless, there remains a defect, particular to Wallraff's method, that mars his objectivity. Teleological journalism--reporting with a singular goal, like the doctrinaire Marxism Wallraff's professes--blinds the investigator to other, equally important truths. This prejudice makes The Undesriable Journalist an uneven collection. Some of the narratives read like adventure novels; others, fraught with details of worker mistreatment in factories, sound like chapters taken from The Condition of the Working Class in England. No matter how scientifically he records his results with microphones, magnetic tapes and hidden cameras if Wallraff seeks only part of the truth, that...
...Carril method--if having all the blood vessels in your head stand out is a method--has taken Princeton to the NCAAs three times and to a .688 overall winning percentage. Besides hysteria, program-eating and white-shirt-wearing, the Carril style usually means incredibly tight defense, patient offense (read: mostly short players) and winning. Carril is not pretty...
Without any uniformly agreed upon vision of the case method, the whole controversy over how widely the B-School should use it shrinks in importance. If one man's "case analysis" is another's academic discussion, then arguing for or against emphasis on the case method is an exercise in imprecision...