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Thursday, September 21, 1995 • Vol. XXVII No. 24 TilE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Geyer: Journalists 'chained' to desks By KAREN BELL Vietnam, but with Cambodia News Writer and the uprising of guerilla warfare and militia. J "If you have a terrible war The perils of the job have with 2000 people trying to get reached life threatening pro out and 12 trying to get in, the portions today. r 12 will be the foreign corre In fact, 1994 was the bloodi spondents." est year in the profession with Georgie Anne Geyer, an au 115 deaths: being deliberately 111111' thor and syndicated columnist, targeted, they are more often delivered the annual Red Smith slaughtered in the most primi lllr· L.ecture i.n Journalism last tive of ways with axe and knife. ____ evening in the llesburgh Li Meanwhile, at home, due to brary Auditorium. financial pressures, papers Entitled, "Who Killed the were being closed or merged as Ill Foreign Correspondent?", the computers took over, si Geyer spoke of how journalists, phoning information from the often seen as a dying breed, are superhighway. becoming chained by the infor mation superhighway at the Epitomizing the change, expense of adventure and con Geyer saw the CNN coverage of text. the Gulf war as rather like a When they do "parachute" story without images. 3000 into the outside world, they journalists sent out stories, but simply capture a mere glimpse had no knowledge of the area, of the reality they can put culture or language; in essence, The Observer/Mike Ruma together in just a few hours.
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