Who is Kim Jong-il? A few months ago my editors at The New York Times Magazine asked me to find out, and the result is the cover story of this weekend’s issue. The story is also posted here.
“The Dear Leader is a workaholic,” it begins. “Kim Jong Il sleeps four hours a ...
The New York Times Magazine
October 19, 2003
The Dear Leader is a workaholic. Kim Jong Il sleeps four hours a night, or if he works through the night, as he sometimes does, he sleeps four hours a day. His office is a hive of activity; reports cross his desk at all hours. Dressed as always in his signature ...
John Burns is getting a lot of attention for his comments in a new book about media coverage of the war in Iraq. Burns notes that some journalists pulled their punches in Baghdad so that they would not be expelled by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Here’s the money graph:
In one case, a correspondent ...
I’d like to promise that this is the last time I’ll mention the musings of Salam Pax, but I can’t be sure of that, because his insights into what’s happening in Iraq are just too damn good. From his blog today: “Maybe we ...
After the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Iraq, Salam is upset: “I am plunging into a fucking depression, do we have a future? Is this country going to be hijacked by shit extremists who want to prove a point?”
Before the war in Iraq, the American media generally went along with the White House’s depiction of Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to world security. Now, with no weapons of mass destruction uncovered in Iraq, the reporting is getting tougher. Today’s Washington ...
If you have been to Havana and have been seduced by it, a new film will send you back, it seems. The film is called “Suite Habana” and is described, by The Guardian, as “stark, beautiful…the ...
A quarter of a million Americans took a trip in March 2003. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.
A quarter of a million Americans took a trip in March 2003. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.
Read all about it, sadly, in today’s Washington Post. “‘We’ve been given a job that we haven’t prepared for, we haven’t trained for, that we weren’t ready for,’ ...
