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Newspapers used to be content with printing what they knew. The New York Times, which has acres of space to fill, has lately been telling its readers what it doesn't know. It names the news sources it could not reach, to show how fairly it covers a story (a check by computer shows that in the past 14 months the Times told its readers 101 times that a news source "did not return telephone calls"). On occasion the paper also publishes a series of questions about stories in the news that it doesn't know the answer...
...existed for centuries. In other places around the world, stabilized injustice seems to be slowly giving way to whatever will follow. For long periods, this movement may only be measurable by the hour hand of history, but journalism feels compelled to note every ticktock of the second hand. The reader returns from a month's vacation to find Jordan's King Hussein still fretting over whether to negotiate with the Israelis, playing a game of pull me forward--no, pull me back. The reader could be away for two years and return to find Yasser Arafat still debating whether...
...Pope John Paul II asked an audience of thousands to pray for the American astronauts. He said that the tragedy had "provoked deep sorrow in my soul." In Buenos Aires, Cartoonist Dobal used his space in the Clarin to write, "I can't give you a joke because, dear reader, all my space is filled with infinite pain." Japan's public TV extended its popular 45- minute evening news program to an hour and devoted it all to the space accident. The Jerusalem Post noted editorially that "Americans take their risks in front of grandstands and television cameras...
...explain. His conceit is to posit that Maimas and the Recording Angel have guided Cornish through his life in an effort to make him great. So when Cornish's nephew calls upon them in jest, they appear (not to the nephew of course, only to the reader) to tell the tale. Why does Davies do this? Well, it's kind of clever and amusing at first. And the use of these two characters could be forgiven if they weren't used in such an amateurish way. Throughout the novel they interrupt every once in a while to explain the most...
...authentic-looking invitations promised two free tickets to the Washington Redskins-Cincinnati Bengals football game. The recipients had only to show up for a pregame brunch at the Washington Convention Center. A wary reader, though, might have noticed that the sponsor, "Flagship International Sports Television, Inc.," had the same initials as the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) of the U.S. Marshals Service. The guest list, it turned out, consisted of 3,000 Washington-area fugitives...