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Horst Faas’ Lens on Vietnam
Horst’s army of AP photographers captured the war, and got the story told. NPR’s lovely homage.
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More Gellhorn
Hard to say why Martha Gellhorn is the femme fatale of the moment: HBO has done a movie with Nicole Kidman that got less than warm reviews, but an off-Broadway company has done a simply wonderful...
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Halberstam vs Alsop
In the clip below, playwright David Auburn talks about why after he began researching the Vietnam War he honed in on Joseph Alsop, who was so influential at the time, yet little known today. He kept...
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Cronkite vs Cronkite
Talk About a Difference of Opinion! I read the New Yorker’s critic at large review of the new bio of Walter Cronkite before stumbling upon Chris Matthews’ take in the New York Times’ Sunday Book...
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And Then There Were Few
Malcolm Browne died last week. George Esper and Horst Faas earlier this year. Hugh Mulligan and David Hallberstram left ages ago. The Vietnam War, and those who covered it, are truly becoming history....
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My Take on Truth in Fiction
Here’s my take on truth in fiction: a guest article I wrote for The Crime Writers’ Chronical This business about truth is confusing. Novels should be truer than life? Heightened reality? I spent my...
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Needed: More Boots (Correspondents) On the Ground
It took him awhile to get there, but Bill Keller made the interesting point in an Op Ed piece in the Times on Dec. 3 that the political flap over Benghazi might have been avoided if correspondents had...
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Richard Engel Freed
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Just Who is Our Treasure?
The newspapers sitting on my desk since August are already almost yellow. I’ve been thinking since then of writing this. The capture and release of NBC’s Richard Engel and his crew lifted me from my...
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Syrian Death Toll
Marie Colvin Things have gotten so bad for journalists in Syria that The Sunday Times of London is refusing to accept freelancers photographs from the conflict. According to the Committee to Protect...
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The French Connection
There is a serious dispute over the death of Gilles Jacquier, of France-2 Television, the first Western journalist killed in Syria during the current conflict. The Huffington Post reports that two...
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Urban Battlefield
Peter DaSilva NY Times Mar 3, 2013 Photographers on assignment in Oakland, Calif., are robbery targets to such an extent that they need security guards to accompany them. The New York Times reports...
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45th Anniversary of Tet Offensive
For many the Vietnam War is no more than history. For those of us for whom it is a vivid memory, the 45th anniversary of the Tet Offensive this year is a time to wonder if we’ve learned any lessons...
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Mali: a terrorist haven with no reporters?
It’s interesting to note that with all the concern about Mali as a haven for terrorists, the New York Times doesn’t even seem to have a correspondent there. A page one story on March 18, talking about...
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Harrowing Flight from Da Nang
We remember the pictures of the last horrifying 1975 flights out of Saigon, but Da Nang? A disgusting picture of South Vietnamese deserting soldiers shoving aside women and children to fight their way...
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Witness to a Massacre in a Nairobi Mall
The New York Times staff photographer Tyler Hicks was nearby when gunmen opened fire at an upscale Nairobi mall, killing at least 39 people in one of the worst terrorist attacks in Kenya’s history. He...
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Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, A Long Time Nemesis of the West Is Dead
A long time nemesis of the West has died, Vietnamese Gen. No Nguyen Giap. During the siege of Khe Sanh, Ford Jennings, one of the main characters in The Five O’Clock Follies, insisted that the U.S....
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Anja Niedringhaus: Journalist Killed in Afghanistan Talks About Her Work
Anja Niedringhaus – Rencontres internationales de la photographe en Gaspésie
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