Q: David Halberstam: Journalist...OR WAS HE!?

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25640005.post-64664096702629997502007-04-25T00:11:00.000-04:002007-04-25T01:27:07.982-04:00Q: David Halberstam: Journalist...OR WAS HE!?A: That's just what the Germans want you to believe! INSIDEBAYAREA.COM: <a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_5738134">Reputed Journalist Killed in Crash</a> Okay, let's do our friends over at insidebayarea.com a favor and brush up on some vocab. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Areputed&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en"></a><blockquote><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Areputed&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en">Reputed</a>: putative: commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth".</blockquote>Saying David Halberstam was a "reputed journalist" suggests that his status as a journalist is in question. It's like saying, "<a href="http://www.surprisinger.com/2007/04/q-does-someone-still-love-you-boris.html">Alleged Former President of Russia Dies of Heart Failure</a>". It only makes sense if InsideBayArea hates David Halberstam. (Which would be unthinkable, since Halberstam was one of the great <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=121958">truth-tellers</a> in an age of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ziegler#Notable_quotes">inoperative</a>" statements, and a <a href="http://espn.go.com/page2/s/halberstam/020911.html">superlative chronicler of sports</a> in an age of <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/sports/">dumb white guys who don't know a goddamned thing about sports</a>. His sudden accidental death is unquestionably tragic.) <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ezootv1H7Ac/Ri7f4UTOF4I/AAAAAAAAAw4/6ZkX85qfXsI/s1600-h/david-halberstam.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ezootv1H7Ac/Ri7f4UTOF4I/AAAAAAAAAw4/6ZkX85qfXsI/s400/david-halberstam.jpg" alt="David Halberstam, reporting for the New York Times in 1963, with Malcolm Browne and Neil Sheehan" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057225590198638466" border="0" /></a>Reputed journalist David Halberstam, left, allegedly wore glasses while reporting from what he claimed was the Mekong Delta. A certain unnamed sexy teenage friend of mine suggests that the copy editor here meant to use the adjective "reputed" as a form of the noun "<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Arepute&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en">repute</a>," "the state of being held in high esteem and honor." But you can't just go around turning nouns into adjectives! IT WOULD BE MASS CHAOS!!! <hr />KNBC: <a href="http://www.nbc4.tv/news/12080478/detail.html">Police Kill Reputed Gang Member in Shootout</a> Alas, he was among our most esteemed Crips. <hr />MORE ON DAVID HALBERSTAM: <ul><li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/world/middleeast/25halberstam.html?_r=1&oref=login">A Skeptical Vietnam Voice Still Echoes in the Fog of Iraq</a> [NYT]</li><li><a href="http://www.salon.com/books/int/1999/02/18int.html">The Salon Interview: David Halberstam</a></li><li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/opinion/25weds4.html?_r=1&oref=login">Halberstam on Journalism</a> [NYT]</li><li><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6490307">Halberstam talks to Steve Inskeep about the parallels between today and the Vietnam era</a> [NPR]</li><li><a href="http://www.powells.com/authors/halberstam.html">Interview: Halberstam's Hit Streak Continues</a> [Powells]</li><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0449908704?ie=UTF8&tag=theanswermays-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0449908704">The Best and the Brightest</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theanswermays-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0449908704" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2Fsearch-handle-url%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8%26search-type%3Dss%26index%3Dbooks%26field-author%3DDavid%2520Halberstam&tag=theanswermays-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">other books by David Halberstam</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=theanswermays-20&amp;amp;amp;amp;l=ur2&o=1" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> [Amazon]</li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25640005-6466409670262999750?l=www.surprisinger.com' alt='' /></div>t.a.m.s.y.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14016844718237440155noreply@blogger.com1