It depresses me to see this sort of sneering in Stone's journalism — it reminds me of the ways in which liberal exiles from countries like Iraq and Iran, the Mensheviks of our own time, are sneered at today as tools of imperialism and people without principles.
For that matter, even Stone's Vietnam journalism, as presented both in MacPherson's biography and in the anthology, looks only halfway prescient today.
Some have called it the foundation stone of citizen journalism – a harbinger of the current YouTube era, where anyone with a camera can create something of global broadcast value.
It should be enjoyable and ultimately empowering to realize that Julian has spearheaded a movement that is the foundations stone of 'The Fifth Estate,' people journalism and what that is capable of including finding out the 'truth' for yourself.
But signing the letter was brave mostly because, by acknowledging the repressive nature of Vietnamese Communism, Stone risked making some of his own journalism from the war look, in retrospect, less than astute.
In seminars on journalism I came across films and television and the foundation stone for my career was laid.
Did Angry Calaisians go around beating people up before resorting to guerrilla journalism, using their phones to film scenes of people throwing stones at riot police or trucks on the ring road?
The book, with text by the British curator Susan Bright, is a skipping stone through photographic history of many genres — art, cookbook, advertising, journalism — showing food in all its glory, from the simplest egg to the most ornate bride's cake.
Stone clearly likes accomplished men involved with show business and journalism, with the occasional boy-toy model.
Stone and Hurley have been at the cutting edge of chequebook journalism.
