Perhaps the most telling comment about Kennedy's alcoholism came not from a comedian but a newsman.
Through it all, her father baffled his persecutors, who could not believe that the suave, stylish polyglot was just what he claimed to be: a hard-living, hard-playing newsman.
WHEN Howell Raines was made executive editor of the New York Times in 2001, he brought with him a reputation as a fearless and independent newsman.
While Mr Obama was glossily presenting his moderate self to much of the TV-viewing public, Mr McCain was off in the periphery whispering "radical" to a washed-up newsman.(Photo credit: AP) .
On his first posting as a newsman, with United Press in India in 1948, he had managed a world scoop by witnessing the death of Mahatma Gandhi.
A FEW weeks ago "The Daily Show"—the fake news programme that has replaced "Saturday Night Live" as the gold standard of American satire dispatched a fake newsman to interview the governor of Illinois.
"We are in a country that is ridiculous," explains an ersatz newsman.
SRI LANKA was always a hard place for hacks; but by any standards, 20 years' jail is a harsh penalty for a newsman doing his job.
This month, one warned a reporter he was under investigation for "aiding and abetting" a string of killings after the newsman questioned his line of inquiry.
That he went on to play the role of anchor for the whole of America, holding the craft steady through the gales of Vietnam, Watergate and the Kennedy and King assassinations with his reading of the CBS Evening News, was a source of both pride and surprise to him.He liked to say he was a newsman.
A veteran newsman, Walter Cronkite, blames the rise of gambling on "the collapse of America's work ethic in the sybaritic philosophy that you can get something for nothing".
