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Beyond the Killing Fields? Not as Long as Brutal Wars Remain a Growth Industry
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields." In today's essay, Walter Shapiro notes that more than three decades after the genocide in Cambodia, all of us are still grappling to find a larger meaning embedded in the horrors of the Killing Fields. Decades from now when, alas, The New York Times is a distant memory ...
'Beyond the Killing Fields' Discussion, Part 2: Where Have All the Reporters Gone?
By David Wood - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields." In today's essay, David Wood laments the shrinking of foreign news bureaus, and asks Schanberg how the great tradition can be kept alive. Schanberg will reply in the next installment. At the end of Wood's essay, earlier exchanges appear in order of their publication on ...
'Beyond the Killing Fields': On the Language of War
By Sydney Schanberg - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields" and his reporting career. Here is Schanberg's response to Grady, who asked him to expand on the concept of language as a political weapon and also talk a bit about some of the truly Orwellian examples of Khmer Rouge "politically correct" speech. As you point out, language ...
Sydney Schanberg Discusses His New Book, 'Beyond the Killing Fields'
By James Grady - Politics DailyFew Americans are more deserving of a movie about them starring an actor with the cinematic moral authority of Sam Waterston than the so deserving Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, who Waterston portrayed in "The Killing Fields." That was the riveting, Academy Award-winning movie about Schanberg and his translator/assistant Dith Pran, who survived Cambodia's descent into genocide at the hands of the cultish Marxist Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979, Cambodia was a homicidal horror show in which at least 20 percent of that nation's populace was killed -- ...
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