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VI-"Day at Larned Just One Big Trip" - Betty Wells - Wichita Eagle and Wichta Beacon

"Want a real tri? Like drugs? Visit Larned State Hospital. Become a patient and you'll be administered enough anti-depressants to calm the greatest fear you ever thought you had. . ."

Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon  1974-02-02

III-"Patient Welcomed by Assault, Sexual Attack" - Betty Wells - Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon

"But it had been my first exposure to other women patients earlier in the day which set the stage for future occurrences, many of which were highlighted not for their starkness, but by boredom. . ."

Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon  1974-01-30

"Contaminated Water" - Joel Grover and Matt Goldberg - KNBC-Los Angeles

"The U.S. EPA says drinking water is unsafe if it has 15 parts per billion of lead or more. At Marvin Elementary, one fountain KNBC tested had 32 parts per billion. . . . "

KNBC - Los Angeles  2008-04-24

"Long, Hard Days - at Pennies an Hour" - Dinah Lee and Rose Brady - Business Week

"Recently her hours grew even more oppressive: To meet the holiday demand for Ghostbutsers, Big Hauler trains, and Mickey Mouse dolls, the girls at the Kader plan were ordered to put in one or two 24-hours shifts, with only two meal breaks, each month. . . ."

Business Week  1988-10-31

"By a Back Door to the U.S." - Sandra Ochoa and Ginger Thompson - New York Times

"It was the fourth day of an illegal sea voyage. Hector Segura was at the helm of a creaky old fishing boat overloaded with 205 passengers, all migrants from Ecuador, all hoping to reach the United States. The distant flicker, Mr. Segura thought, was the law on their tail.

The New York Times  2004-06-13

"A California Teenager Goes Undercover to Investigate Life Among the Moonies" - Scott Keeler - People Magazine

People Magazine  1978-07-24

"Just Another Night on Crack Street" - Philippe Bourgois - New York Times and his book, "In Search of Respect"

"The heavyset undercover policeman pushed me across the ice-cream counter, spreadking my legs and poking me around the groin. As he came dangerously close to the bulge in my right pocket, I hissed in his ear, 'It's a tape recorder.' He snapped backward, releasing his grip on my neck, whisphering a barely audible, 'Sorry.' . . ."

New York Times Magazine  1989-11-12

Preview: "Trip Into Darkness" - Unsigned - Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon

"Imagine being soaked with cold water while bound to a chair and being forced to sit there for six hours."And after being bound to the chair, imagine the degradation of having no alternative but to use a bedpan in front of 35 other persons. "The scene is not a prisoner of war camp. It's a state mental institution -- in Kansas . . . "

Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon  1974-01-27

VI-"The First Steps in a Chorus Girl's Life" - Catherine King - New York Evening World

". . .I had gone the rounds of all the big offices and had entered upon the second week of my search when I determined on a somewhat bolder plan of procedure. Heretofore I had dressed quietly and had conducted all my inquires and requests for interviews modestly, as one asking a favor. As a fast resort I resolved to take a more aggressive attitude. . ."

New York Evening World  1898-08-08

VII-"From Five Cents a Day to a Waldorf Feast" - Charles. H. Garrett - New York Evening World

" . . . It seemed to me as though my good fortune was coming all at once. Just before entering the hotel I had found out that a poem which I had sold to the Criterion, and for which I was to be paid upon publication, was in the current issue of the magazine."I had found, too, that a long-delayed story from my pen is printed this month in Demorest's and between the two I could see that I would have enough money to more than supply my present wants. So there was absolutely nothing to interfere with my appreciating everything to the fullest. I did. . . ."

New York Evening World  1898-07-25

V-"A Day as a Cloak Model" - Catherine King - New York Evening World

". . .All I knew about work as a cloak model was that one had to be possessed of a good appearance and a figure measuring so many inches about the bust and waist. But in order to find out exactly what the work was and exactly how a woman could earn a living in this field I picked up the Sunday World and read the following advertisement: 'Wanted- A young woman to try on suits and jackets; must be 34 bust. Apply tomorrow morning' . . ."

New York Evening World  1898-08-03

VI-"New York Life at Five Cents a Day" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World

"I had gained a foothold with the papers and magazines, too, and was usually in receipt of enough money to assure me of at least my room rent. My income did not run above $2.50 a week, but that was enough to get along on. That sum paid for my room and left me 75 cents for food, tobacco, an occasional shave and such odds and ends of repairing to my shoes and clothing as I could not do. . . ."

New York Evening World  1898-07-23

V-"Living Upon Five Cents a Day" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World

"I had been down in the five-cent-a-day basin for some time and was vibrating between that and the two or three cent a day allowance of mush and coffee. . . . "

New York Evening World  1898-07-22

IV-"Girl Toilers' Chance at Selling Books" - Catherine King - New York Evening World

"I had tried several ways of earning a living and had found none that would have brought me enough to even settle my board bill, had I been in real distress. I felt that I must find something. Other women reduced to financial straits manage to earn a living somehow and I must do the same. I searched again the advertisements in the papers and found that although there was plenty of work offered for women, most of it required special training. . ."

New York Evening World  1898-08-01

IV-"Five Cents a Day; A Man's Life" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World

". . . I was getting to the end of my small stock of cash and was beginning to wonder where the next money was coming from when my troubles were added to by an accident. To many people it would have seemed most trivial, but in the condition of my finances, it was a serious one. . . . "

New York Evening World  1898-07-21

III-"Girl Toilers With the Needle and Their Pay" - Catherine King - New York Evening World

"I have been not exactly among the singers of 'The Song of the Shirt,' but nevertheless in the place and the atmosphere of a wearying 'stitch, stitch, stitch.' I have followed up my one day's work in a department store and my other day's work as a quick-lunch waitress with a brief experience as a dressmaker at Redfern's. . ."

New York Evening World  1898-07-29

III-"FIve Cents a Day, No Work, No Play" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World

"The pawnshop is no more an evil than the grocery store," said one of the medical students. "In fact, in many instances, it is a blessing, and there are thousands of persons in New York today who have been saved from starvation or crime by the pawnbroker . . . "

New York Evening World  1898-07-20

II-"Girl Toilers' Work and Wages" - Catherine King - New York Evening World

"Clearly I was not intended for a shop girl. One day's experience had proved this. I turned my attention in other directions. 'Why not become a waitress?' said I to myself. So I resolved to try to secure a position in some downtown restaurant. . ."

New York Evening World  1898-07-27

II-"Five Cents a Day for This Man's Living" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World

" . . . When I had finished I would try and make myself believe that I had just enjoyed a course dinner. But I was seldom quite successful, as it is not easy to deceive your stomach . . . "

New York Evening World  1898-07-19

I-"Girl Toilers of the Great City" - Catherine King - New York Evening World

"I started out early one morning to find work as a shopgirl. It has always seemed to me that there must be plenty of opportunities in the big stores for women and girls who are willing to work. . ."

New York Evening World  1898-07-26

I-"Lived Three Months on Five Cents a Day" - Charles H. Garrett - New York Evening World

"Have you ever been starving? Have you ever been so faint from lack of food that your brain swam and your mind refused to respond to even the simplest demands made upon it? Have you ever been so poor that you were forced to make twenty-five cents worth of food last for a week? Have you seen the time when a fifteen cent meal was a luxury and a restaurant lunch which cost twenty cents was the wildest extravagance?" I have. For the last six months I have lived this way . . . "

New York Evening World  1898-07-18

"Inside The National Enquirer" - Kelly Cobiella - CBS News

". . .But a tabloid notorious for dishing dirt on the stars is now in the news for uncovering the year's biggest political scandal: the John Edwards affair, a story the Enquirer first began reporting while Edwards was still a presidential candidate.Perel indicated an issue from December 2007. It was "the first time we named Rielle Hunter as lover and revealed she was 6 months pregnant and got the exclusive photo of her," he said. . ."

CBS News  2009-02-11

"Senator John Edwards Caught with Mistress and Love Child" - The National Enquirer

". . .But a months-long NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation had yielded information that Rielle and Edwards, 54, had arranged to secretly meet afterward and for the ex-senator to spend some time with both his mistress and the love child who he refuses to publicly acknowledge as his own.The NATIONAL ENQUIRER broke the story of Edwards' love child scandal last year, when Rielle was still pregnant and Edwards was still considered a strong candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. . ."

The National Enquirer  2008-07-22

"Spy Photos Love Child" - The National Enquirer

". . .The stunning 'spy photo' shows the former presidential contender holding his infant daughter Frances Quinn Hunter at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles – where the ENQUIRER caught him visiting the baby’s mother, his mistress Rielle Hunter. . ."

The National Enquirer  2008-08-06

"Edwards' Hush Money to Mistress" - The National Enquirer

". . .A year-long ENQUIRER investigation exploded spectacularly into the open on the night of July 21 when our reporters caught Edwards making a secret late-night visit to Rielle, 44, and their infant child at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton hotel. . ."

The National Enquirer  2008-07-29

"John Edwards Admits Affair" - The National Enquirer

". . .Edwards also confessed The ENQUIRER was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month. His wife had not known about the meeting. . ."

The National Enquirer  2008-08-08

"Rotting Meat, Security Documents, and Corporal Punishment" - Dave Savini - Nieman Reports

"On a hot summer day, a truck backs into a loading bay in Chicago’s popular Fulton Street meat market. The truck’s driver has no idea his every move is being captured on a small video camera. Thousands of pounds of pork, cases of yogurt, and crates filled with fruits and vegetables are loaded onto a truck that has no refrigeration. It’s an illegal load. Outside temperatures reach nearly 90 degrees. The yogurt can spoil in the heat. The pork (whole pigs) is dripping blood and other moisture onto peppers and tomatoes, which is a serious violation of public health codes and can lead to cross contamination."

“By a Back Door to the U.S.: A Migrant’s Grim Sea Voyage; Dangerous Passage: From Ecuador by Sea” - Ginger Thompson and Sandra Ochoa - New York Times

". . .In collaboration with The New York Times, a reporter from El Tiempo, a newspaper in Cuenca, Ecuador, took the eight-day voyage, covering 1,100 nautical miles from a cove near this scruffy Ecuadorean beach resort to the northern coast of Guatemala. Her journey as a client of smugglers -- and sometimes a hostage -- provides a rare look inside one small part of the vast pipeline that carries untold numbers of migrants to the United States each year. . ."

The New York Times  2004-06-13

"Bush Like Me" - Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone

". . . As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself. "This 'was 'what I was doing down in Florida. The real challenge wasn't just trying to understand these Republicans. It was to become the best Republican I could be. . . . "

Rolling Stone  2004-10-28

"Stalking the Stalkers" - Lisa Fletcher - Transcript

". . .There are powerful predators out there...looking, lurking and patiently waiting for you o turn your back on your kids and their computer just for a moment. So we turned the tables on them...for months...stalking the stalkers. . ."

Reaction: "Gap in Security at Sky Harbor" - Dennis Wagner - The Arizona Republic

". . .Paul Armes was suspended after Channel 15 (KNXV, an ABC affiliate) aired videotape of Sky Harbor employees entering secured areas without having their bags screened by private guards, metal detectors or X-ray machines. Workers breezed through checkpoints with suitcases, backpacks, a cart of newspapers and even a bicycle. . ."

The Arizona Republic  2007-07-24

"TSA Changed Tune After Report" - Good Morning America

". . .That was quite a change from what investigative reporter Lisa Fletcher from Phoenix affiliate KNXV discovered — a 4½-hour nighttime window during which virtually anything could be brought into the secure side of Sky Harbor, the ninth-busiest airport in the nation. During those late-night hours, the X-ray machines were turned off and the metal detectors were closed, which means bags with unknown contents could be carried to the airplane-accessible side of the airport. . ."

"Sky Harbor Security Risks" - Lisa Fletcher - KNXV-TV Phoenix Transcript and Clips

". . .You would think five years after 9/11 airports would be very secure. What your about to see may have you thinking twice about the level of security Sky Harbor Airport is providing. During the day it seems fine..rigorous screening, and thorough checks bu the transportation security administration. At night...late at night, as you'll see, it's a completely different story. . ."

KNXV-TV (Arizona)  2007-07-20

"Weapons Still Fly at Airport" - Maki Becker and Greg Gittrich - New York Daily News

". . .To test the supposedly more stringent security imposed at the nation's airports after the Sept. 11 attacks, Daily News reporters boarded flights over the Labor Day weekend carrying contraband - including box cutters, razor knives and pepper spray. Not a single airport security checkpoint spotted or confiscated any of the dangerous items, all of which have been banned from airports and planes by federal authorities. The four airports where the Sept. 11 terrorists boarded planes - Newark International, Boston's Logan Airport, Washington's Dulles International and Portland International Jetport in Maine - were all breached during The News' undercover investigation. . ."

New York Daily News  2002-09-04

"Fly at Your Own Risk" - David Savini - WBBM-TV (Chicago)

WBBM-TV  2007-11-01

V-"Stepping Back: Lunch Lines" - Vivian S. Toy - Milwaukee Journal

"There are the 'druggies,' who do drugs, and the 'freaks,' who do drugs and drink."Jocks, of course, are the athletes, and 'frocks' are jocks who happen to be freaks. . . ."

Milwaukee Journal  1986-10-30

IV-"Game, Dance Add Zest" - Vivian S. Toy - Milwaukee Journal

Milwaukee Journal  1986-10-29

III-"Stepping Back: Still a Stranger In Their Midst" - Vivian S. Toy - Milwaukee Joural

"The new principal at St. Francis High School stands in the lobby at the front of the stairs before school, after school and between classes. . .. "

Milwaukee Journal  1986-10-28

II-"Stepping Back: Class Notes" - Vivian S. Toy - Milwaukee Journal

"It's three minutes before English class starts, and the boy is in a panic. He has forgotten to read the assigned lines in 'Beowulf,' and he hasn't answered the questions."He turns to a friend for help, and she's glad to give him the answers. Sure enough, he's called on in class, but he has the answer. As the teacher turns to something else, the boy breathes a sigh of relief and whispers a "thanks" over his shoulder to his friend. . . . "

Milwaukee Journal  1986-10-27

I-"Scenes of Senior High" - Vivian S. Toy - Milwaukee Journal

"Having been out of high school for five years, I suspected there might be a few changes when I returned htis fall for three weeks . . . Sure enough, the styles and musical preferences had changed, girls were wearing a lot more makeup and practically all the girls (and some boys) used styling mousse in their hair."On the academic side, it seemed as if less were expected of the students than when I was in school. Questions on tests and in classrooms required answers that usually could be lifted right out of textbooks with little analysis . . . "

Milwaukee Journal  1986-10-26

VI-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

" . . . After I had decided to leave teaching, and after the school year had ended, I no longer felt self-conscious about looking into the home lives of my students. . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-03

Review - "Making the Grade" - Richard Louv - New York Times Book Review

" . . . From her description, the system is insane, tracking children as slow learners if they are poor readers though they may have a decent aptitude for math. The school seems to have little capacity to identify emotionally disturbed or truly learning disabled children. The textbooks are incomprehensible. Yet her students often try to stand an deliver . . ."

The New York Times  1991-12-05

Postscript: "My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"Five of Sachar's eighth-grade math students met last week with a New York Newsday editor to talk about their experiences in her classroom. The students, one from each of the five classes Sachar taught, were: Ilka Bent, Sabura Alexander, Karim Licorish, Fredeline Amedee and Natalie Rodgers. They were not students profiled by Sachar in the series.

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-06

VIII-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"One shelf in my den has workbooks. Another has bags of smiley-face stickers, and another has dice and protractors. Next to my computer is a filing cabinet filled with puzzles I used in my year as a teacher at Walt Whitman Intermediate School in Flatbush, Brooklyn. "They were my teaching supplies, and I haven't been able to throw them away. After teaching math for a year, I decided not to return. But I still feel like a teacher, and I often imagine I'll go back to the classroom someday. . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-05

VII-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

" . . . I scanned the rows of students. Scattered about were several dozen who didn't know their times tables, couldn't write a simple essay or couldn't understand a short passage in an elementary textbook. Yet, in less than two months, they would be adorned in caps and gowns and graduated to high school. I felt like I was watching a heinous lie. . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-04

IV-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"October 16, 1989, I had phoned their parents. I had scoured their records. And I had read their essays. But in my year as an eighth grade math teacher at Walt Whitman Intermediate School, there was one line I did not cross with my students. I did not go to their homes. . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-03

Sidebar: "My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"To use hands-on material takes a great deal of training," says Bruce Vogeli, professor of mathematics instruction at Columbia University's Teachers College. "Many teachers are not good at this sort of approach."

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-01

V-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"Ironically, my school had an excellent, easy-to-follow textbook series for the sixth and seventh grades, and math teachers for these grades also had a supplement from the Board of Education with ideas, including games, for teaching their curriculum. The eight grade had neither. . . . ."

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-12-01

IV-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"Like many teachers, Nobile's school day didn't end when the last bell rang. She took classes after school to work her way up the salary scale. In New York City, teachers must earn one master's degree within five years to retain their jobs, and they must earn a second master's degree to get to the top of the salary scale. . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-11-30

III-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

". . . Some said I should call parents, so I tried that for the first few months of school; every night I was calling five or 10 homes, which was not a testament to my diligence but to my failure to control the classes. . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-11-29

II-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"Mary as a proud girl, the sort who found it easier to be nasty than nice. In those early weeks of school, she had come late to class, scowled at me in the hall, and told the other students to call me 'Mrs. Sucker.' . . ."

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-11-28

I-"My Year as a Teacher: Chapter I" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

"September 20, 1988. The basketball sailed over my head again -- from Roger to Nathan, back to Roger, over to Andrew, then to James, back to Roger. "'Okay, that's enough. Will you please take your seats?'" I shouted. My voice was cracking, I was yelling so loud. "The period started 10 minutes agao." "My math class in Room 327 was turning into a gym class. "'Dribble,' Roger mumbled. 'Dribble, dribble, dribble. Up and score!' The ball banged against the back wall, landed on a desk and bounced to the floor. "My attendance book fell out of my hand. Nathan grabbed it, dangled it in my face, and threw it Frisbee-style against the blackboard . . . "

Newsday and New York Newsday  1989-11-27

"Inside the Desert Storm Mortuary" - Jonathan Franklin - San Francisco Bay Guardian

". . . But after weeks of preparation and now a day inside the Desert Storm mortuary, I'm beginning to think I could really embalm, if I had to. The chief mortician must be equally convinced as he summons me to his corpse. " 'Got your embalming license, Franklin? You can start this afternoon.' . . . "

San Francisco Bay Guardian  1991-03-26

"Access Denied" - Chris Davis and Matthew Doig - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

"Public officials lied to, harassed and even threatened volunteers who were using a law designed to give citizens the power to watch over their government. In six counties, volunteers were erroneously told that the documents they wanted didn't exist. . . . "

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL)  2004-02-07

"Conflicting Laws, Opinions, Stir Questions About Death Records" - Kyle Niederpruem - Indianapolis Star and News

Indianapolis Star and News  1998-02-22

"The State of Secrecy" - Kyle Niederpruem - Indianapolis Star and News

From the Evansville version: "Seven Indiana newspapers sent personnel to all 92 counties in August seeking public records including death certificates, crime logs and reports, school coach salaries and school board minutes. "The results were startling.. . . ."

Indianapolis Star and NewsEvansville Courier (IND)  Sunday, February 22, 1998

"Bronx Slave Market" - Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke - The Crisis

"The Bronx Slave Market! What is it? Who are its dealers? Who are its victims? What are its causes? How far does its stench spread? What forces are at work to counteract it?"

The Crisis  1935-11-01

"Slumlords and Public Policy" - Michael A. Stegman - Appraisal Journal

". . .With the publication of two books dealing with the nature of slumsand their owners, some of these concerns can be elaborated. The first ofthe two, Let In the Sun, by Woody Klein, is a case study of a single new lawtenement located at 311 East 100th Street, on New York City's 'worstblock.' It is a heartrending account of city life at its ultimate worst, and isreminiscent of Riis' and Steffens' works of a half century or more ago. It isalso subject to the same limitations of Cook's and Gleason's 'The Shame ofNew York,' which Roger Starr said 'confused housing, one of the city's mosttroublesome problems, in a flood of moral oversimplification' . . ."

The Appraisal Journal  1968-04-01

"Letter from East Harlem" - Nathan Glazer - City Journal

"East 96th Street may be the most sharply defined border between poverty and affluence, urban misery and urban elegance, to be found anywhere in New York. . . . Once, the division was not so sharp. . . ."

City Journal  1991-09-01

"Reporter Speaks on LSH" - Unsigned - Great Bend Tribune

Great Bend Tribune (KS)  1974-05-01

"Larned Hospital Investigation Planned" - Unsigned - Salinas Journal

"A committee has been appointed at Larned State Hospital to look into a report of a patient mistreatment, according to Ralph Arnold, information coordinator for the hospital. . ."

Salina Journal (KS)  1974-01-31

"Pawnee County Mental Health Group Says LSH Attacks Unfair" - Pawnee County Mental Health Association - Great Bend Tribune

"We are writing in response to the recent articles on the Larned State Hospital in the Wichita Eagle written by Betty Wells. We realize that Miss Wells thought she was writing an expose but she lacked the experience and training to judge what was taking place around her at the hospital."It is the opinion of this organization that Miss Wells has caused great damage with her articles to the patients in the hospital with an invasion of privacy, and disruption of treatment, discouragement and fear for those seeking treatment, and for the destruction of the image of the mental health program. Several patients have been removed from the hospital against medical advice and are still sick. Their chances of recovery have been hindered because of these articles and the way they were written. This would be a terrible burden to realize that one person had denied sick people the opportunity for recovery and for a normal life for personal gain and to sell newspapers. . . ."

Great Bend Tribune (KS)  1974-02-27

V-"Hardened Aides Soon Spawn Fear in Larned Newcomer" - Betty Wells - Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon

Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon  1974-02-01

"The Public Isn't Buying Press Credibility" - Carol Doherty - Nieman Reports

". . . A slim majority said the press was often influenced 'by powerful people and organizations.' Even higher percentages believed the news media was often influenced by the federal government (73 percent); business corporations (70 percent); advertisers (65 percent), and labor unions (62 percent). Many Americans also doubted the news media's fairness and journalists' willingness to admit mistakes."

Nieman Reports  2005-06-01

"Let's Get Ethical" - Joe Strupp - Editor and Publisher

". . .As they prepared the report for its May 10 publication, Spokesman-Review Editor Steve Smith and Managing Editor Gary Graham wanted to make sure they had covered all the bases, checked all the facts, and reviewed all of the potential ethics-related problems. Enter Bob Stecle, the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., whose advice on newsroom ethics has become nearly as sought-after as Dr. Phil's views on marriage. . ."

Editor and Publisher  2006-09-01

"Stories Result of 3-Year Investigation" - Steven A. Smith - Spokesman Review

". . .The stories, by staff reporters Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele, are the result of an investigation that began in 2002. At that time, the newspaper was investigating the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Allegations surfaced that Jim West sexually molested young boys in the late 1970s when he was a Boy Scout leader and a Spokane County sheriff’s deputy. . ."

The Spokesman-Review  2005-05-05

"A Spokesman-Review Investigative Report: Interview with Jim West" - Transcript - Spokesman Review

"The following is a transcript of an interview between Mayor Jim West and Spokesman-Review reporters Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele, which took place at The Spokesman-Review building the evening of May 4, 2005. Spokesman-Review photojournalist Brian Plonka was also present during the interview."

The Spokesman-Review  2005-05-04

"Online Relationships" - Bill Morlin - Spokesman Review

". . .The young man’s story raised questions for the newspaper. If West was online at Gay.com, was it the public’s right to know? Would it be the public’s business if West was using city computers to chat during his working hours as mayor? What if he was using the Internet to meet people who weren’t 18, the legal age of consent? Was he abusing his public office in any other way?The questions became a critical part of the ongoing investigation into the sex abuse allegations against West. . ."

The Spokesman-Review  2005-05-05

"West's Public Policy Conflicts with Private Life" - Karen Dorn Steele - Spokesman Review

". . .Because of his clout as the former Senate majority leader and his reputation for attacking his enemies, no one has publicly confronted West about any discrepancy between his private sexual behavior and his political stances, people in politics and in Spokane’s gay community have said.While members of Spokane’s gay community said it’s widely rumored that West is a closeted gay man, they also said his sexual orientation is only an issue when his behavior intrudes on the legislative process and public policy. . ."

The Spokesman-Review  2005-05-05

"West Tied to Sex Abuse in '70s, Using Office to Lure Young Men" - Bill Morlin - Spokesman Review

"For a quarter century, the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust – as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician – to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men.One man, Robert J. Galliher, claims in a court deposition that Jim West molested him in the mid-1970s when he was a boy and West was a Spokane County sheriff's deputy and Boy Scout leader. . ."

The Spokesman-Review  2005-05-05

"Truth Our Mission?" - Joe Strupp - Editor and Publisher

". . .It seems to me that the Spokesman-Review should be praised for its work, which apparently began years ago with background checks, source-building, and good old-fashioned shoe-leather hoofing. Any paper that uncovers so much about its city's highest-ranking elected official (after endorsing him in the last election) should be held up as an example of what newspapers can do best. . ."

Editor and Publisher  2005-06-01

"Day Laborers Before Their Time" - Lewis W. Hine - Charities and the Commons

"If, with all these historical, social, and material advantages, such conditions can prevail among the newsboys and newsgirls of Hartford as are portrayed in the accompanying illustrations from life, no argument needs to be stated to prove the need of such an organization as the National Child Labor Committee, in the process of some of whose investigations the photographs were taken upon the streets of Hartford."

Charities and the Commons  1909-10-23

"Documentary Photographs in John L. Spivak's Odd Amalgam of Investigative Reporting and Fictional Portrayal of Chain Gangs in 1930's Georgia" - Ronald E. Ostman and Berkley Hudson

"At ground level, the camera's eye looks into the face of a prisoner, hogtied and on hard-packed dirt. Ropes bind his hands. Straps and ropes wrap his legs. A pickaxe shoved between his arms and the backs of his knees tightens the punishment. With discomfort, he rests his close-shorn head on the dirt. He wears torn, black-and-white convict stripes. If there was a hell on earth in 1930 and 1932, then investigative journalist John Louis Spivak depicted it with a novel based on his reporting. Using straightforward photographs to authenticate Georgia Nigger, Spivak attempted to sear into the national consciousness the brutal image of chain gangs of the American South. . ."

Visual Communication Quarterly  2006-01-01

"Child Labor in the Carolinas" - A.J. McKelway - Charities and the Commons

"Lewis Hine, well-known to readers of this magazine by his photographs of social conditions in New York city and elsewhere, was sent by the National Child Labor Committee to investigate conditions in North and South Carolina and record the results with his camera. In November, 1908, he went to Charlotte, N.C., the center of the cotton mill region of the south. Over fifty percent of the cotton spindles and looms of the south are within one hundred miles of Charlotte. Mr. Hine visited nineteen and investigated seventeen mills, taking 230 photographs. . ."

Charities and the Commons  1909-01-30

"Child Labor in Gulf Coast Canneries: Photo-Graphic Investigation Made February, 1911" - Lewis W. Hine - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

". . .By actual count of children at work, I found I25 boys and girls whom I judged to be from three to eleven years of age; and at least half of the canneries were working either a small crew or none at all on the days I visited them. This count I checked up constantly by means of ages given me by some of the children and their parents. From statements of age made by them, I have record of thirteen children three to five years old; twenty-five, six to eight years old; and fifteen, from nine to eleven; a total of fifty-three from three to eleven who told me their ages, and as I was getting photographs at the same time, too much questioning was hazardous. . ."

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science  1911-07-01

"Lewis Hine: From 'Social' to 'Interpretive' Photographer" - Peter Seixas - American Quarterly

". . .Lewis Wickes Hine's photographic career spanned the years from Progressive reform through the Depression of the 1930s. While his photographic themes and purposes maintained a considerable consistency over the course of his life, the uses to which his photographs were put changed dramatically. This change was more a consequence of the altered environment in which Hine worked than of any major revision in his own outlook. . ."

American Quarterly Review  1987-10-01

"Children of the Mills: Re-Reading Lewis Hine's Child-Labour Photographs" - George Dimock - Oxford Art Journal

". . .Lewis Hine photographed for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) between 1906 and 1918. This remains his best known and most celebrated work. Within a social history of the Progressive Reform Movement which rose to prominence in the first decade of the twentieth century, the child labour photographs served as visual, empirical evidence of the widespread employment of children in a variety of industrial and commercial enterprises in the United States: textile mills, coal mines, glassworks, commercial agriculture and the street trades. At the same time that Hine's work helped define the values, interests and agendas of Progressive reform, it was largely determined by them. The movementcomprised a flexible and changing set of alliances at the local, state and national levels, among teachers, suffragists, health-care workers, civil servants, city planners, social workers, labour leaders, journalists and reform politicians. . ."

Oxford Art Journal  1993-01-01

"A Desire to End These Things" - Ronald E. Ostman and Berkley Hudson - Visual Communication Quarterly

"As investigative journalist and photographer John L. Spivak rode in a taxi from the train station for his first visit to a Georgia convict camp, he could see a prisoner undergo torture. . .With a Kodak dangling from a strap around his neck and with pockets 'filled with roles of film,' Spivak exited the taxi. Straightaway, he took pictures without permission. Then, a guard pointed a shotgun at Spivak. After an angry exchange, Spivak handed him an introductory letter from Gerogia's prison commissioner. . ."

Visual Communication Quarterly  2009-10-01

"The Odd Amalgam: John L. Spivak's 1932 Photographs, Undercover Reporting, and Fiction in 'Georgia Nigger'" - Ronald E. Ostman and Berkley Hudson

"Lincoln Steffens, who generally is cited as the first muckraking journalist, called John L. Spivak 'the best of us.' Spivak, among many progressive and muckraking writers of America's early 20th century who might have competed for the honor, was labeled by some of his contemporaries as 'the best reporter...in the whole United STates at the present moment,' 'America's greatest newspaper man,' 'one of the alertest reporters alive,' and 'greatest reporter since Lincoln Steffens' . . ."

Visual Communication Quarterly  2006-06-20

"Bird-Dogging the Bush Vote" - Wells Tower - Harper's Magazine

". . .I am, at the moment, one of the thousands of constituent devices that make up the most aggressive and state-of-the-art piece of campaign machinery the G.O.P. has ever brought to bear on a presidential race. I'm here because several weeks ago, as I and a few dozen million other Americans were fretting over how we might possible ward off another four years of George W. Bush, I decided to come to Florida and undertake a vigil for election-theft tactics from inside the Bush campaign's grass-roots ranks. . ."

Harper's  2005-03-01

"I Was an Obama Volunteer" - Mike Newall - Philadelphia City Paper

". . .I also wanted an up-close-in-action glimpse of this idea of 'empowered democracy,' the supposedly self-transformational precept pumping through the bloodlines of Obama's candidacy. (Remember, he's not just asking you to believe in his ability to bring about change, he's asking you to believe in yours.) The candidate has promised that his is a truly bottom-up campaign driven by the creative energies of volunteers rather than Washington wags. I wanted to see how Philadelphians handled their newfound empowerment. . ."

Philadelphia City Paper  2008-04-16

"I Was a Clinton Volunteer" - Tom Namako - Philadelphia City Paper

". . .When my editors put me up to this, I wanted to tackle some big questions: Would we Philadelphians truly be the "deciders" of a presidential primary? How does national politics operate on a local level? And who are these legendary Clintons, who draw both fanatical love and hate? I wanted to know these things in a truthful way, not through the spin of some campaign flack. But by 9:30 a.m., just a week after this office opened, my desire for knowing became much simpler: Where the hell were these people? . . ."

Philadelphia City Paper  2008-04-16

"The Comeback Id" - Todd S. Purdum - Vanity Fair

". . .To know Clinton is, sooner or later, to be exasperated by his indiscipline and disappointed by his shortcomings. But through it all, it has been easy enough to retain an enduring admiration—even affection—for a president whose sins against decorum and the dignity of his office seemed venial in contrast to the systemic indifference, incompetence, corruption, and constitutional predations of his successor’s administration. That is, easy enough until now. . ."

Vanity Fair  2008-07-01

"Bill Clinton: Purdum a 'Sleazy' 'Slimy' 'Scumbag'" - Mayhill Fowler - Off the Bus on the Huffington Post

"Former President Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe former New York Times reporter and current Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum, calling him "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy" and a "scumbag."The former president made the comment at a local campaign event after I asked him if Purdum's much-commented upon Vanity Fair story was weighing on his mind. Tightly gripping this reporter's hand and refusing to let go, Clinton heatedly denounced the writer, who is currently married to former Clinton White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers. . ."

Off the Bus on the Huffington Post  2008-06-02

"Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter" - Mayhill Fowler - Off the Bus on the Huffington Post

". . .It's curious, then, that he often has such a hard time making a connection with many working class Americans. With plenty of time for people to get to know him, like in southern Illinois before his first state legislature race and in Iowa before the caucuses, Obama has forged that connection. People get comfortable with the way his mind works. Obama is the man with the big picture; he jumps quickly from the particular to the general and back again, for he makes sense of the world in a synchronic rather than a linear way. For all his soaring rhetoric, there is a dispassion about him. And yet he blends rationcinative intelligence with empathetic understanding. This is a rare combination, and for many people, this aspect of Obama takes some getting used to. His Puritanical streak, moreover, while amusing to the press can be off-putting to everybody else. . ."

Off the Bus on the Huffington Post  2008-04-11

"The Uncharted: From Off the Bus to Meet the Press" - Jay Rosen - The Huffington Post

". . .Citizen journalism isn't a hypothetical in this campaign. It's not a beach ball for newsroom curmudgeons, either. It's Mayhill Fowler, who had been in Pennsylvania with Obama, listening to the candidate talk about Pennsylvanians to supporters in San Francisco, and hearing something that didn't sound right to her. (See Katharine Seelye's account in the New York Times.) . . ."

Huffington Post  2008-04-14

"When Mayhill Fowler Met Bill Clinton at the Rope Line" - Jay Rosen - Press Think

". . .She does not identify herself as a writer for OffTheBus. She does identify herself as someone sympathetic to the target of the Vanity Fair article. (Fowler thought it was bad journalism.) She has a digital tape recorder in her left hand but Clinton doesn’t see it. He grips and does not let go of her right hand as he’s talking. 'I think we can safely say he thought I was a member of the audience,' she says later. . ."

Press Think  2008-06-09

"Blogger Is Surprised by Uproar Over Obama Story, but Not Bitter" - Katharine Q. Seelye - The New York Times

". . .Ms. Fowler told me in an interview Sunday night that she was initially reluctant to write about what Mr. Obama had said because she actually supports him— which partly explains why she was at the fundraiser in the first place and why there was a four-day delay between the event and the publication of her post. Ultimately, she said, she decided that if she didn’t write about it, she wouldn’t be worth her salt as a journalist. . ."

The New York Times  2008-04-14

"Ethics Apply to Indie Media, Too" - Brett Noble - Daily Bruin

". . .The third-year history student founded The Advocate, a student-run anti-abortion magazine that has challenged polices of UCLA's Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center and Planned Parenthood, using hidden cameras and tape recorders to report on alleged illegal health care activities. . ."

Daily Bruin  2008-03-10

"Irresponsible Journalists are Jeopardizing Serious Investigations by the Press" - Christopher H. Pyle - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"In this century, there have been two great eras in American investigative journalism. The first, in the early 1900's, was led by muckraking journalists Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair. Tarbell's massive history in the Standard Oil Company helped break up that monopoly. Sinclair's 'The Jungle,' which exposed unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry, led to the Pure Food and Drug Act. . ."

The Chronicle of Higher Education  2000-01-07

"Journalism - 4 Cases: What Would You Do?" - Christopher Scanlan - St. Petersburg Times

"Is it proper for reporters to pretend to be what they are not to get a story - posing as bar owners for instance, to expose graft and corruption involving city officials? . . . "

St. Petersburg Times  1987-06-08

"Lab Scam" - D.M. Osborne - Brill's Content

". . .Two months later, though, Devaraj learned that his guests were not who they said they were. They actually worked for ABC's PrimeTime Live and had secretly recorded every word and gesture. A week after that, on May 19, 1994, Devaraj and his wife Carolyn watched aghast as the newsmagazine accused the lab and three others of misreading women's Pap smears. . ."

IV-"Maggie and Me" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail

". . .We clean for nearly three hours, but Maggie charges for two. In a fair world, the client and her relative would say: Wait, we owe you more. But neither says a word. Instead, the elderly relative makes us mop her laminate floors all over again, this time with the grain so the streaks don't show. . ."

Toronto Globe and Mail  2006-04-22

III-"Cinder Sam and Benderella" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail

". . .I worry that the boys and I won't make it through the month. Strange as it sounds, at first I don't know what I'm actually earning at the company I call Maid-It-Up Maids. I keep crunching the numbers. Now, it seems after paying rent, I'll net $8.75 per person per day. If this were real life, I'd get a monthly federal Child Tax Benefit of $204.67 and a National Child Benefit Supplement of $268.66. Our daily per-capita budget would swell to $14.38 a day — but we'd still be $7,631.08 below Statistics Canada's 'low-income cutoff line' . . ."

Toronto Globe and Mail  2006-04-15

II-"Modern Times" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail

". . .Cigarettes cost $7.50 a pack. Budgeting is a skill I absorbed from my educated, successful parents. So I figure $9 an hour equals a gross monthly income of $1,368 in February. After $750 rent for my basement apartment, I'm left with $7.36 per person a day for myself, Ben and Sam. (For now, I'm assuming I would get a low-income tax refund and I'm not factoring in federal child subsidies, which I'll discuss next week.) Pat, I'll later find out, never got to learn such skills. Her mom had six kids with three different husbands, and now lives on welfare. . ."

Toronto Globe and Mail  2006-04-08

I-"The Great Experiment Begins" - Jan Wong - Toronto Globe and Mail

". . .I am working undercover - though I applied for this job using my real name - but this is ridiculous. I'm practically under the covers with them. Then I understand. We are maids, and therefore we are invisible, subhuman, beneath notice. We are the untouchables of the Western world. . ."

Toronto Globe and Mail  2006-04-01

"Undercover Reporting: The Myth of Ethical Deception" - Ashley Csanady - The Elements of "PIRC" WIki

". . . But just as police operations are limited by society’s distaste for entrapment, so too is a journalist’s ability to deceive hindered by circumstance. Public trust in the media to report the truth cannot be maintained if journalists fail to tell the truth as they report (Kovach and Rosenstiel, 2007, p.97); however, it wasn’t until I tried my hand at a deception-based story that I understood undercover was no exception to the rule. . . . "

WIKI Home The Elements of PIRC  Friday, December 24, 2010

IV-"Working for Uncle Sam" - C. S. S. - New York World

"The life of a feminine clerk in one of the Government Department at Washington is not by any means a bad existence. I have tried it and speak from experience. . ."

New York World  1890-03-16

III-"A Woman in the Steerage" - S. J. Stevenson - New York World

". . .By 8 o'clock two of the sailors came around with a large pail of coffee and served a dipperful to each person. Then the baker followed with the bread in his apron. It was handled considerably before he got to the last person. . ."

New York World  1890-03-16

II-"Trying for the Stage" - Unsigned - New York World

". . .We were hired on the first night and by the saturday matinee there were only fifteen or twenty people to are on. . ."

New York World  1890-03-16