Journalist’s Trade

Spring 1998: National Security Introduction

Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney responds to questions front the media while taking part in a press conference held by U.S. and Saudi Arabian officials during Operation Desert Storm. Official…
March 15, 1998
On National Security, Five Ways to Respond to Restraints

On National Security, Five Ways to Respond to Restraints

My first reaction to the assignment of writing about the lingering effects of Cold War self-censorship is to redefine the subject. If self-censorship means restraint, self-imposed or accepted by an…
March 15, 1998
Daniel Schorr

Response: an ‘Unbridgeable Divide’

My departure point for any discussion of national security reporting is an evening in the early 1980’s, when I was a Washington correspondent for The New York Times. Several days…
March 15, 1998
Philip Taubman

He Saw Folly of Racism Through Prism of Humor

Harry S. Ashmore 1916-1998In April 1960, The New York Herald Tribune published 12 articles by Harry S. Ashmore, who had just left The Arkansas Gazette where he had served for…
March 15, 1998
Sander Vanocur

Falling Into the Fault Line Chasm

He was young, but he knew it was the kind of story that could change lives and win prizes so he didn’t hesitate when his editors asked him to spend…
March 15, 1998
Dori J. Maynard

The Fred Friendly Impact

It was a coin toss as to which provoked more contempt in my youth, authority or celebrity.Fred Friendly combined them both, though his celebrity was of the professional, behind-the-scenes sort.…
March 15, 1998
Eileen McNamara