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Adventures in Correspondentland (Confessions from Correspondentland: The Dangers and Delights of Life as a Foreign Correspondent)

โœ Scribed by Bryant, Nick


Book ID
108913019
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
657 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781864712674

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โœฆ Synopsis


As a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Nick Bryant has reported from the wilds of Afghanistan, Pakistan, London, Washington and, for the past five years, Australia. Adventures in Correspondentland - his account of these experiences - is part memoir, part travelogue and part polemic. More than anything, however, it is the inside story of the dangers and delights of seeing the world through this unique, sometimes privileged and often strange perspective. How did Bill Clinton react when, in front of a ballroom of over 2000 people, he had to present the award for 'Journalist of the Year' to the reporter who had discovered the existence of Monica Lewinsky's little blue dress? Why did the media report on the night that Princess Diana was killed in a Paris underpass that she was alive when correspondents knew she was dead? How did Bono help save the Northern Ireland peace process? What were international journalists really saying about Prime Minister Rudd? In Adventures in...