It is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. Not so…
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Aging More Gracefully Than England
As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties.…
Continue reading →On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian Assange
When a journalist disappears in Russia or is murdered in Iraqi Kurdistan, his or her colleagues in safer climes stand…
Continue reading →The Secular Fatwa on Julian Assange
In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to murder author Salman Rushdie for blasphemy. Within a…
Continue reading →Let it Leak: Wikileaks and Patriotic Whistle-Blowing
Spare a kind thought for my old friend Michael Morrell’s oldest son, Geoff, the Pentagon’s Press Secretary. The Defense Department…
Continue reading →My Mentor: Charles Glass on Peter Jennings
The first time I ever saw Peter he was wearing a trench coat. It had belonged to his father, who…
Continue reading →Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Jennings, television and radio journalist: born Toronto, Ontario 29 July 1938; staff, ABC News 1964-2005, international anchor, World…
Continue reading →Iraqis need people like James Brandon to tell their story
The gunmen who kidnapped the British journalist James Brandon from his hotel late on Thursday probably had no idea they…
Continue reading →The first casualty
IN 1984 I filed a report to ABC News on Israeli death squads in south Lebanon that was never broadcast.…
Continue reading →Diary – celebrating a fiftieth birthday
The best thing about turning 50 is that you’ve had time to develop a healthy narcissism. While I tap out…
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