[First published in AM New York.]
“SAY IT ISN’T SO, Joe!” we all want to yell. But at Dan Rather (left). Continue reading “‘Sixty Minutes’ Mess Over Unverified Bush Story” »
[First published in AM New York.]
“SAY IT ISN’T SO, Joe!” we all want to yell. But at Dan Rather (left). Continue reading “‘Sixty Minutes’ Mess Over Unverified Bush Story” »
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ‘THE NEW YORK TIMES’ MAGAZINE
NO-ONE EXPECTED it to end with killing. In 1972, I was a junior TV journalist assigned to watch events in Northern Ireland, which that weekend happened to include a protest march in Derry. At most, I figured there would be the customary low-level standoff between protesters and the army, some stone-throwing and tear gas. But once the shooting started, that day was destined to be known as Bloody Sunday.
Continue reading “LIVES: An Unreliable Witness (from NY Times, 2001)” »
[First Published in The Guardian, London, September 10th, 1976]
LAST WEEK THREE anti-nuclear campaigners went to gaol in the small mid-California town of San Luis Obispo. They joined seven other colleagues already sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from 15 days to six months. All were gaoled for their self-confessed participation in a mass protest last month against the siting of a nuclear plant near an earthquake fault. They are the first in a long line. Continue reading “‘Dust-up in Diablo Canyon’ – Retrospective Protest Coverage” »
[First published in the ‘NEW STATESMAN‘ magazine – London, May 1973]
THE MASSIVE CABORA BASSA dam now being built in Portuguese Mozambique provokes some strong passions. For its many opponents across the world, it is a concrete symbol of white racialist determination to retain power in southern Africa. Continue reading “The Cabora Bassa Stockade: Location Dispatch, 1973” »