Why 60 Minutes is Great Television & Terrible Journalism
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibdeQbh6Rw[/youtube] Chris Kohatsu tweeted me the other day. 60 Minutes was posting an invitation to people to question or respond to Lara Logan’s story on US forces in Afghanistan. As I had previously tweeted that Logan’s story was terrible,...
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This morning, I sat down to write a blog entry that was going to be called “The World Turned Upside Down”. It was going to start with a quote from David Halberstam’s book The Powers That Be. I remembered...
Read moreCouric v. Halberstam
David Halberstam – Journalist I am about 1/3 of the way through David Halberstam’s last book, The Coldest Winter, a history of the Korean War.
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