The Contemporary World

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller offers a variety of strategies in which it could be studied and criticized. It is more than just a romantic novel for because of its universality and theme, it can generate multiple meanings, discourses, and opportunities for further studies among literary scholars and students. The writer of this paper will utilize properties and characteristics of romance novels basing from the studies of Jennifer Bun and Katherine Morrisey while also considering the inclusion of collective silence and fiction as guides for a more comprehensive analysis of the novel in question. Sterk's two out of nine basic plotline will also included in the analysis of the novel. Romance novels are popular among women mainly because of four reasons identified: (1) nurture/recapturing feelings of intense love; (2) entertainment/value escapism; (3) female empowerment; (4) dealing with patriarchy (Bun 2007, 9). These reasons will also be used in the analysis of the novel The Bridges of Madison County.

2013

Very grateful as I am to have been invited to New Haven to reconsider Nomos and Narrative after twenty years, I am again struck by Bob Cover\u27s stunning intellectual vigor and originality, his broad curiosity, and his irrepressible sense of humor. I particularly want to underscore his example of an enduring commitment to context, to striving for more justice in the here and now. Most significantly, I believe it worth reconsidering the very bridges that Cover identified between nomos and narrative. He offered only cryptic distinctions (yet distinctions with a difference) to separate but also to connect is and ought ; the violent law of the state and the new norms of committed groups that challenge state law; rules and stories. Cover had an intimate view of the power and the limitations of law. He literally and painfully put his body on the line as an activist for civil rights and as an opponent of the Vietnam War. His great book, Justice Accused, confronted judicial complicity and ...

Film Matters 3.4, 2012

2022

At the time of World War ll, US intelligence formalized its cooperation with organized crime to form Operation Underwood. From there, the web of corruption grew to entangle many well-known figures. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Whitney Webb's book, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein," provides the framework to understand not just the role and function of Epstein, but also, more broadly, the mess we're now finding ourselves in Around the time of World War II, the intelligence community in the United States formalized its cooperation with organized crime syndicates in what was known as Operation Underworld, and the web of corruption grew from there Sexual blackmail was used by organized crime before U.S. intelligence even existed. As criminal factions and intelligence agencies developed a symbiotic relationship, blackmail became a tool to achieve their individual ends While it may appear as though organized crime is being combated, this is rarely ever the case. Stories of cracking down on organized crime are cover stories to hide what's really happening, which is the consolidation of organized crime territory The incentive behind all this criminal activity is not merely the hoarding of money to live in the lap of luxury. It's about power and control over others. The good news is we can pull the plug on their plans In this interview, investigative journalist Whitney Webb discusses her book, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein." The book is so long, it was cut into two volumes. Volume 1 alone is 544 pages, but it's a fascinating read and incredibly well-referenced. When asked what drove or inspired her to become an investigative journalist and to write this tome, Webb reviews some of her personal history that made her question adults and authority in general and, more specifically, the systems that run our world, including health care and politics. "I became acutely aware of a lot of these issues with health care and big pharma, environmental issues and political stuff ...

Legacy, 2009

2012

Long ago, during the fi rst year of my apprenticeship as a newspaperman, someone told me that a reporter is the person chosen by the tribe to enter the cave and tell them what lies within. If a furious storm is raging, the tribe might fi nd safety and warmth. But if the reporter does not go deep enough, a dragon might await them, and all could perish. That was, of course, a hopelessly romantic version of the reporter's role, but I was young enough to embrace it. As a street reporter, I discovered that the dragon could have many forms, all of them human. There were caves all over the big bad city. And a reporter could see the dragons and their acts in the cold dead eyes of the hoodlum; the corpse of the mutilated girl; the ashes of lives left by arson; the killer's smirk as he performed his perp walk. Making notes about the who of it, the what of it, the where and how and why. And what the weather was. Then rushing back to the newspaper to write it for the next day's paper, passing the report to all the tribes of New York. On some nights, I felt as if I were a bit player in some extraordinary fi lm noir. There in the shadows of Brooklyn or the Bronx lay various dangers, bad guys and cops, too many guns, and too much heroin. My press card would protect me. Or so I thought. At the same time, I was adding to my sense of the reporter as witness, living a life in which no day was like any other day (or night), and absorbing the lore and legends of my craft. I listened to the tales of old reporters and photographers. I watched movies about foreign FOREWORD xii FOREWORD PREFACE xvi PREFACE when used selectively, far outweigh the lapses, which, it turns out, are more of a preoccupation in only some quarters of the profession than they are with the public. The stories I have chosen to highlight in the following pages have been culled from an idiosyncratic collection of sources: prize and award lists; oblique and direct references found with key word searches in various databases, often incomplete, and in books that cite or allude to recent and archival newspaper, magazine, and journal articles and essays; citations in lawsuits and in law reviews and academic journals; and some old-style reeling of the microfi lm. Others emerged from cursory mentions in works of media criticism, commentary, history, ethics, or other, often out-of-print journalism texts. To the numerous authors and journalists who informed my thinking and to those on whom I relied the most, I off er special thanks. You'll fi nd their names in the text, sometimes repeatedly, and in the endnotes and bibliography. Special thanks to those who took the time to speak and message with me at length, including Soma

Journalism Practice, 2019

Using a methodology inspired by structural narratology and by James Hamilton's [2016. Democracy's Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism. Cambridge: Harvard] economic analysis of investigative journalism, this paper identifies a set of 14 recurring structural and formal elements (plot events, character types and functions, visual iconography) that constitute a fable about investigative journalism. The fable structure is applied to analyze six diverse films about investigative journalism produced in the US in the last 40 years. The films include two instantiations of successful investigative journalism (All the President's Men, Spotlight), two cases where conflict between journalists and corporate managers diminished the impact of the investigation (Good Night and Good Luck, The Insider), and two instances of a counter-fable of failed investigative journalism (Truth, Kill the Messenger). The paper argues that the films' representation of investigative journalism influences public perceptions of investigative journalism. It also speculates about the factors that will influence investigative journalism and its representations in the current political context in the US.

1993

THE VIRTUOUS JOURNALIST 10 (1987) (quoting TheodoreRoosevelt, Address on the Laying of the Cornerstone of the House Office Building (Apr. 14, 1906)). 2. One basic-reporting textbook describes investigative reporting as follows: "Any good reporting is investigative reporting. But the term has come to mean reporting in depth to reveal public or private behavior that otherwise might go unseen-usually criminal or antisocial behavior, but not always." MITCHELL V. CHARNLEY & BLAIR CHARNLEY, REPORTING 337 (4th ed. 1979). James King and Frederick Muto note that investigativejournalism is intrinsic to the "new journalism," i.e., journalism "through which reporters attempt to use the communications media to influence society directly." James E. King & Frederick T. Muto, Compensatory Damages for Newsgatherer Torts: Toward a Workable Standard, 14 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 919, 919 n.1 (1981). 3. PHILIP MEYER, ETHICAL JOURNALiSM 78 (1987). 4. The effectiveness of undercover investigative reporting stems from the fact that "[a] reporter whose identity is not known ... is uninhibited, has no worry about offending news sources, and has the clandestine privilege of observing news figures when they are off guard." CHARNLEY & CHARNLEY, supra note 2, at 344-45. 5. Charniley and Charnley provide examples of the uses of undercover or "infiltration" reporting and note that the results of undercover newsgathering "are almost always admired and frequently of high public service." Id. at 337. Undercover newsgathering is just one of the tools of the investigative reporter. Regardless of the method used, investigative reporting is a powerful tool for social reform. See Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532, 539 (1965) ("The free press has been a mighty catalyst in awakening public interest in governmental affairs, exposing corruption among public officers and employees and generally informing the citizenry of public events and occurrences .... .");

2020

Wisconsin journalist Dickey Chapelle is primarily remembered as the first female journalist from the U.S. killed while covering combat. She died while on patrol with the Marines on Nov. 4, 1965 in South Vietnam. Chapelle was repeatedly in Vietnam to cover the war from 1961-1965, but the resulting articles were rarely published. In fact, only three articles from her trips to Laos and Vietnam were published in any major magazine. The evidence demonstrates Chapelle believed her difficulties in finding publishers was the result of gender discrimination. However, Chapelle had no formal education and no training for the work required of a journalist. An examination of her professional correspondence revealed that editors were dissatisfied with her work product due to her unorthodox reporting style, her inability to produce copy related to the assignment she was given, and in some cases her lack of objectivity. Chapelle professed to a sort of \u27see and report\u27 style, but an examinatio...