[First published in AM New York.]
CAN IT BE THAT RUPERT MURDOCH‘s support for the Republicans – once legendary in its rock-solidness – is starting to show cracks?
Just as George Bush, Dick Cheney and their campaign spinners are sounding their most determined (or even desperate), close scrutiny reveals signs of incomplete steadfastness within Murdoch ‘s flagships, Fox News and the New York Post. Continue reading “Rupert, The Undependable?” »
[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” »
