(Ebook) American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader by Robert Parry, Nat Perry ISBN 9781663238962, 1663238960

(Ebook) American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader by Robert Parry, Nat Perry ISBN 9781663238962, 1663238960

"Bob and I were married 31 years when he died Jan. 27, 2018. I loved him, laughed with him and admired his journalistic drive. After leaving journalism in 1996 for another career, I’d become much more philosophical about the vagaries of human behavior, and the limits of journalism to correct wrongdoing. When I asked what motivated him against the big odds that I knew caused him pain, he answered simply, “I don’t like lying.”He believed journalists should seek the truth and let the chips fall where they may. He believed that if people learned the truth they would effectively participate in a democratic society.In a speech he gave when accepting an award toward the end of his life, he said: “To me the core responsibility of a journalist is to have an open mind toward any information you might find, to have no agenda and to have no preferred outcome. In other words, I don’t care what the truth is. I just care what the truth is.”Bob wasn’t in the business for the awards, but he won a few nonetheless. Besides winning the George Polk Award, he also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, received the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Excellence, and the Martha Gellhorn Prize, among others. He was averse to self-promotion. He felt the work should speak for itself and that the truth would power through, helping people and government officials do the right thing. He left an impressive body of work. This book brings together articles he wrote during his life. I hope you will see in it the qualities that set him apart.