ABSTRACT

A college professor of mine began class each semester by regaling students with his long, colorful career in the news business. He recalled his work as a young correspondent during the Spanish-American War, and described what it was like to charge San Juan Hill at dawn as part of Teddy Roosevelt’s Light Brigade. The professor went on, waxing nostalgic about his colleagues: Edward R.Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Ernest Hemingway.