Altercation: Celebrating Ellsberg at 90 and DeGrom at Just One
The stories of the guy who snitched on Dan, and the Mets who still canât hit
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Daniel Ellsberg, right, speaks with Lowell Bergman, director of the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, August 27, 2014.
Beginning on April 30, there will be a star-studdedâby peacenik national-security metricsâconference on the life and influence of Daniel Ellsberg, and especially his role in the 1971 Pentagon Papers drama. Also marking the occasion,
The New Yorker published âThe Deceit and Conflict Behind the Leak of the Pentagon Papers.â Its author, one notes with a hint of irony, was Ben Bradlee Jr., son of the editor who got consistently scooped on the story by his rivals at the
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Hell’s Angels
(1967), but it wasn’t until he teamed up with Ralph Steadman for the first time that true gonzo journalism was born. A new Last Gasp publication,
Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson?
, reminds us that we were never the same after that.
“We lost all control of events and spent the rest of the weekend churning around in a sea of drunken horrors.” –
Hunter S. Thompson, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”
Gonzo journalism was born at the Kentucky Derby in 1970. That is, the first piece of collaborative reportage between Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman took place there and then, and from that point on this perfect pairing of talents recalibrated the hippie vision of the 1960s into the nightmarish miasma that was the 1970s.
Are frum doctors fated to become an endangered species? An investigative report into a looming problem
Chana Weinstock Neuberger, MD, a medical oncologist in Baltimore, learned many things in medical school. But during her first week of residency, she heard an unfamiliar term from fellow doctors that never appeared in the curriculum.
“Are you Shabbotaged this month?” she heard one asking another.
In her internal medicine residency program at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, NY, which arranged shifts in order to accommodate the shomer Shabbos doctors, their colleagues who took the Saturday calls instead were “Shabbotaged,” a portmanteau of “Shabbos” and “sabotage” in other words, sabotaged by Shabbos.