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An Honest Reporter, and His Antithesis
The Wall Street Journal / Print Edition
Peggy Noonan
2/14/2015
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(Bob Simon) ... was a bona fide and veteran foreign correspondent. I knew him at CBS, where I am now a contributor, a young man but already a person of stature, known for daring and judgement. He was different from the cliches of his job; He didn't have movie-star looks or a polished baritone. But he had guts, flair, the mind of a reporter and a clear, clean writing style that, on inspection, was more than clear and clean.
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America is hungry for authenticity and honesty and fiercely resents its absence from places where it should be. - (bold and color emphasis added)
A longtime reader of this column, age 84, emailed recently to say the heartbreak of his life the last few years has been witnessing the daily corruption of all information -- the rigging of numbers and claiming of facts, the scientific papers that manipulate data to advance a political agenda, the misleading government statistics. We're drowning in lies, he said.
That is not an exaggeration.
View the complete article, perhaps online (subscription required), but definitely in the print edition of "The Wall Street Journal".
IMO:
In common with the late journalist, Bob Simon, our own resident journalist, Lucas Daniel Smith, doesn't have a "polished baritone" but he does have "daring ... guts, flair, the mind of a reporter and a clear, clean writing style, that on inspection (is) ... more than clear and clean".
The Wall Street Journal / Print Edition
Peggy Noonan
2/14/2015
Excerpts:
.................................
(Bob Simon) ... was a bona fide and veteran foreign correspondent. I knew him at CBS, where I am now a contributor, a young man but already a person of stature, known for daring and judgement. He was different from the cliches of his job; He didn't have movie-star looks or a polished baritone. But he had guts, flair, the mind of a reporter and a clear, clean writing style that, on inspection, was more than clear and clean.
................................
America is hungry for authenticity and honesty and fiercely resents its absence from places where it should be. - (bold and color emphasis added)
A longtime reader of this column, age 84, emailed recently to say the heartbreak of his life the last few years has been witnessing the daily corruption of all information -- the rigging of numbers and claiming of facts, the scientific papers that manipulate data to advance a political agenda, the misleading government statistics. We're drowning in lies, he said.
That is not an exaggeration.
View the complete article, perhaps online (subscription required), but definitely in the print edition of "The Wall Street Journal".
IMO:
In common with the late journalist, Bob Simon, our own resident journalist, Lucas Daniel Smith, doesn't have a "polished baritone" but he does have "daring ... guts, flair, the mind of a reporter and a clear, clean writing style, that on inspection (is) ... more than clear and clean".