ABSTRACT

The grunge-like repetitiveness of the phrase “the Peace Process” has become almost numbing and meaningless. The so-called “process” covers everything ongoing from a sudden and very temporary cease-fire to long drawn-out negotiations for a lasting truce. Newspapers also have their problems with asserting their entitlements, and journalists too, not least in how to transcribe conversational explosions into acceptable house style within the limits of the daily allotment. A New York Post newspaper person named Ann Bollinger covered the story in a Manhattan courtroom where rap star Queen Latifah told how she had been affected by the shooting of her bodyguard in a harrowing carjacking. Writing in his newspaper as an afterthought, he “should have yelled a snappy comeback.” As for the press, once the prosecution withdrew its case, all metropolitan newspapers rallied to the cause of full and complete public documentation.