American Journalism Review: NPR Gears Up 2010-09-02
How the unit came to be, and how Zwerdling got there, goes back to 2004. | Zwerdling was one of those people. In one of his first encounters with the new managing editor, the reporter described a story he was working on about immigrants who had been picked up by the Department of Homeland Security, jailed and abused, and then deported. He had already done interviews via remote hookups with two sources in Egypt and Guyana.
Roberta Baskin, director of the investigative team at WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., was waiting to take the bus back from New York City, where she had collected her third duPont-Columbia Award. Her cell phone rang. It was her news director telling her she had been let go, along with 24 other employees. | What happens, I ask Dubocq, when people like him vanish from the newsrooms of America?
Marilyn Katz: Liberals are hypocrites and liars... | these sound like the Code Pinkies...not relevant or credible by any stretch.... | Our enemies watch what we say. They knew Bush was being skewered at home over the war, by his own countrymen. They felt the U.S. could be beat, and they kept on killing. | At 10:25 a.m.: Well said.
Years ago, I attended a rally protesting government cuts in funding for education and the arts. One of the speakers suggested that we boomers may be the first generation to teach the next generation less than we know. That often willful ignorance may turn out to be our final, fatal mistake, the greatest American tragedy of all. | Michael Winship is senior writer at Public Affairs Television.
Recounting the controversial campaign. | Is the national media a danger to democracy? | Pinochet & Other Characters. | Rev. Sun Myung Moon and American politics. | The 1980 election scandal exposed. | From free trade to the Kosovo crisis.
Photography is going to marry Miss Wireless and heaven help everybody when they get married. Life will be very complicated. – Marcus Adams, Society photographer, in the Observer, 1925. | During one of the Lincoln-Douglas presidential debates, the audience sat listening for a total of seven hours, with only a break for dinner. Such focused public attention seemed unthinkable in 1985, and even more so in 2010 –