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Literary journalism finds new platforms
![When National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the radiation. He took "Cold War-era iodide tablets," which made his tongue tingle and left him with a rash. He decided to ignore statistics or official statements in favor of his observations, his conversations with survivors, his impressions: a kind of overview. "The stunning capacity of the Japanese official to say absolutely nothing," he writes, "is matched only by the absurd degree of trust that his public places in him."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61542018-12152912.jpg "When National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the radiation. He took "Cold War-era iodide tablets,\" which made his tongue tingle and left him with a rash. He decided to ignore statistics or official statements in favor of his observations, his conversations with survivors, his impressions: a kind of overview. \"The stunning capacity of the Japanese official to say absolutely nothing,\" he writes, \"is matched only by the absurd degree of trust that his public places in him.\"")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticWhen National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the...Tags: Mark Bryant, Periodicals, The New York Times, Afghanistan, Columbia University
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Richard M. Daley, Chicago mayor, boss and Obama mentor, calls it quits next year
Top of the TicketBig-city Democratic boss retires after 21 years, setting off a political succession scramble including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.... -
Warren Christopher dies at 85; Clinton secretary of State's quiet diplomacy was prized from Washington to L.A.
Warren Christopher, the former secretary of State and eminence grise of the Democratic Party whose achievements in a wide-ranging public career include brokering the Bosnian peace agreement for the Clinton administration and leading an independent...Tags: Stanford University, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Business Enterprises, Local Government
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10 things you might not know about double talk
The Decade of Double Talk has just ended. But maybe it's not the end of anything. Maybe we're simply in the midst of the Era of Euphemism. Or the Millennium of Mumbo Jumbo. In any case, here's a historical and contemporary look at how the enemies of...Tags: The New York Times, Siemens, U.S. Department of Defense, American Civil War (1861-1865), South Carolina
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Ticket Replay: Protesters from '68 Democratic National Convention gather in Chicago to protest police reunion to celebrate those who thumped protesters 41 years ago and probably wouldn't mind doing it again if those balding hippies get too close
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Malcom X Attorney Percy Sutton Dies at 89
Associated PressNEW YORK -- Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89. Marissa Shorenstein, a spokeswoman for Gov. David Paterson,...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Slavery, Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Tuskegee Airmen
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Walter Cronkite dies at 92; longtime CBS anchorman
![Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s and who was still regarded as "the most trusted man in America" years after leaving his CBS anchor chair, has died. He was 92.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-07/48133096-17182002.jpg "Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s and who was still regarded as "the most trusted man in America\" years after leaving his CBS anchor chair, has died. He was 92.")
Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s and who was still regarded as "the most trusted man in America" years after leaving his CBS anchor chair, has...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, Stanford University, Martin Luther King Jr., History, Ohio
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'A Bomb in Every Issue' by Peter Richardson
Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. That's the stuff of myth, but Ramparts pulled it off.
Published for just 13 years, the San Francisco magazine not only blew the cover off the biggest stories of its era, it also helped set the...Tags: Periodicals, The New York Times, Susan Sontag, Nazi Party, Central Intelligence Agency
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Paraphrasing the '60s
TODD GITLIN teaches journalism at Columbia University. His next book, "The Bulldozer and the Big Tent," will be published by John Wiley this fall.THE NEWS burst forth this week that eight former radicals, all or almost all of them said to have been members of a Marxist-Leninist fragment called the Black Liberation Army (a small breakaway from the faction-ridden Black Panthers) had been arrested &#...Tags: Prosecution, Folklore and Mythology, Spiro Agnew, Columbia University, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention
![Across the country and in Chicago, tensions were already high by the time delegates to the Democratic National Convention arrived for the opening session on this date. The destruction of the King riots on the West and South Sides in April was still a vivid memory. In June, Senator Robert F. Kennedy's final words had included the phrase, "On to Chicago," when his presidential candidacy was cut short by an assassin's bullet in California.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/34346991-02112950.jpg "Across the country and in Chicago, tensions were already high by the time delegates to the Democratic National Convention arrived for the opening session on this date. The destruction of the King riots on the West and South Sides in April was still a vivid memory. In June, Senator Robert F. Kennedy's final words had included the phrase, "On to Chicago,\" when his presidential candidacy was cut short by an assassin's bullet in California.")
Chicago TribuneAcross the country and in Chicago, tensions were already high by the time delegates to the Democratic National Convention arrived for the opening session on this date. The destruction of the King riots on the West and South Sides in April was still a...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, CBS Corp., Chicago Tribune, Illinois, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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The Chicago Seven trial and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Chicago TribuneEverybody knew it would be interesting, the trial of eight people charged with conspiring to incite the riots that erupted during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. How could it not be, with a cast of characters that included hippie...Tags: Prosecution, Judges, Chicago Tribune, Punishment, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents' by Mikal Gilmore
![The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the straight world, the events that defined "the '60s" were jarring anomalies that shook the status quo. Moms and dads across America recoiled in front of their sets, fingers crossed that their kids weren't getting their heads busted by the cops.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-11/43213432-06153357.gif "The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the straight world, the events that defined "the '60s\" were jarring anomalies that shook the status quo. Moms and dads across America recoiled in front of their sets, fingers crossed that their kids weren't getting their heads busted by the cops.")
The revolution -- the one that took place in the 1960s -- was in fact televised. The music, the antiwar movement, the drug culture and the social upheaval of the era became major benefactors of the first wave of saturation media coverage. To the...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
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