Englishman in New York24 Apr 2007 09:44 am
A writer should be like a playwright — putting people on stage, putting ideas on stage, making the reader become the audience.
David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies, New York Times.
The job of the reporters in Vietnam was to report the news, whether or not the news was good for America. To the ambassadors and generals, on the other hand, it was crucial that the news be good, and they regarded any other interpretation as defeatist and irresponsible.
David Halberstam: Witness to War, Poynter Online.
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