RE: [Leica] b.d. we hardly knew ye....

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

OHMIGOD! Might you have possibly written one of the texts in one of the
countless Latin courses I failed miserably, or are you too young for that?

B. D.

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Subject: RE: [Leica] b.d. we hardly knew ye....


  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
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