Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I am sure B.D. would be the first to note, if he were still here, that Pulitzer Prize in 1984 went to a group of reporters (not photographers) at Newsday, of whom he was one. And I doubt that he would claim his college paper was the best source of Vietnam war news available in Washington in the late 60s. I lived in Washington at the time, working as a journalist, and I never heard anyone speak that way of George Washington University's paper--fine publication though it may have been. My colleagues and I were reading, with great admiration, the work of professional journalists such as Neil Sheehan, Harrison Salisbury, Malcolm Browne, Ward Just, Charles Mohr, Lee Lescaze, Seymour Hersh, David Halberstam and others. (Some of them won, or shared, Pulitzers, by the way.) From month to month, it was a toss-up as to whether the Washington Post or the New York Times had the better coverage, although I'd vote for the Times overall. The Library of America series has a fine two-volume collection of the best journalism from the Vietnam years. It's called Reporting Vietnam. Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969, and Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975. One note in this thread, by the way, incorrectly reported that Melvin Mencher won a Pulitzer. It also incorrectly implied that he is not a good journalism professor. He is maybe the best ever, as editors who have been eagerly hiring his best students for years would surely tell you. Fred >>