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Behind the News
What a Year!
December 30, 2011 02:41 PMOn a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt. Tunisia’s long-time dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, had fallen in stunningly fast fashion a week before, and together Alex... Continue reading
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Behind the News
An Appreciation of Peter Jennings, One Year Later
August 7, 2006 11:24 AMA year ago today I received a call from my colleague Jon Banner, the executive producer of World News Tonight With Peter Jennings. It was a little after ten o'clock at night, on a summer Sunday. "Peter just... Continue reading
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- The over-covered image war Journalists are exaggerating the risk that Mitt Romney will be “defined” early
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