MEMBER BLOG TAG: journalism
| Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:59AM | | | | War | Tags: journalism, war, neutrality, objectivity, embedded, platoon, Taliban, fear honesty, trust, skepticism. civilians
| | | The room was packed for this panel, people standing, etc. I had attended the New European Fiction event just before, in the same space, and now the sense of intimacy that had animated that panel was gone. In this panel of journalists who write about some aspect of war, one woman was represented: Deborah Amos. The others participating were Philip Gourevitch, Arnon Grunberg, Sebastian Junger and Daniele Mastrogiacomo whose translator from the Italian sat beside him.
The first question put to them was why do you do this? What impels you to write about war?
Amos: war shows people at the extremes of behavior - both noble and despicable - and others need to know what those extremes are.
| | | | | | | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:24AM | | | | Cherry Blossoms and Newspapers | Tags: Newspapers, cherry blossoms, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, journalism, internet, reporters, Christian Science Monitor
| | | Spring is arriving in fits and starts this year—sun, blue skies, cherry blossoms, rain, cold winds, sun, blue skies, cherry blossoms. The cherry blossoms have burst all around Washington and just as precipitously will fall from the trees, leaving a pink and white carpet over the city for a day or two until the winds blow the petals away. This coming weekend as the blossoms peak, the city will fill with blossom watchers, the Jefferson Memorial in particular where the cherry trees ring the Potomac River. Whether the weather is warm, cold, rainy, snowy, or sunny, the cherry blossoms herald the official start of spring for Washington, D.C.
A year ago as the cherry blossoms arrived, we were in the throes of... | | | | | | | Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:39PM | | | | shine bright at Grand Central | Tags: grand central, nyc, grand central station, sadi ranson, tant mieux, shoeshine, a word, editorial, edit, inhabited lives, life stories, journalism, short-short, prose, sadi ranson-polizzotti,
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Michael has a stand of high chairs with foot-rests all built upon a sturdy oak wooden frame with arm-rests. He is a shoe-shine guy. He is standing under the shelter of the overhang of Grand Central Station on 42nd and Lex. in front of his shoe-shine booth. This makes sense - a good place for a booth - for it provides shelter for anyone who wants to get their shoes shined even while it's raining out, so the weather has no affect on Michael's business.
I'm standing outside of the Grand Central, waiting to meet my friend M. I have on a silk dress, flat ballerina flats (Michael notes that they are patent leather - "nice," he says. "Shiny."), and... | | | | | |
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