Gay Talese on the state of journalism, Iraq and his life
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
Gay Talese wants to go to Iraq. “It so happens there is someone that’s working on such a thing right now for me,” the 75-year-old legendary journalist and author told David Shankbone. “Even if I was on Al-Jazeera with a gun to my head, I wouldn’t be pleading with those bastards! I’d say, ‘Go ahead. Make my day.'”
Few reporters will ever reach the stature of Talese. His 1966 profile of Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, was not only cited by The Economist as the greatest profile of Sinatra ever written, but is considered the greatest of any celebrity profile ever written. In the 70th anniversary issue of Esquire in October 2003, the editors declared the piece the “Best Story Esquire Ever Published.”
Talese helped create and define a new style of literary reporting called New Journalism. Talese himself told National Public Radio he rejects this label (“The term new journalism became very fashionable on college campuses in the 1970s and some of its practitioners tended to be a little loose with the facts. And that’s where I wanted to part company.”)
He is not bothered by the Bancrofts selling The Wall Street Journal—”It’s not like we should lament the passing of some noble dynasty!”—to Rupert Murdoch, but he is bothered by how the press supported and sold the Iraq War to the American people. “The press in Washington got us into this war as much as the people that are controlling it,” said Talese. “They took information that was second-hand information, and they went along with it.” He wants to see the Washington press corp disbanded and sent around the country to get back in touch with the people it covers; that the press should not be so focused on–and in bed with–the federal government.
Augusten Burroughs once said that writers are experience junkies, and Talese fits the bill. Talese–who has been married to Nan Talese (she edited James Frey‘s Million Little Piece) for fifty years–can be found at baseball games in Cuba or the gay bars of Beijing, wanting to see humanity in all its experience.
Below is Wikinews reporter David Shankbone’s interview with Gay Talese.
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Will The Trend Stop Or Continue On Find Out How To Tell With Technical Analysis Training Course
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Will the Trend Stop or Continue On – Find Out How to Tell with Technical Analysis Training Course
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Peter Markham
So you have started to trade and you have developed your stock trading strategy . You’ve taken technical analysis training course and and for your preferred style you have gone with trend traing after some time in thought.
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Trend trading is a strategy that is very attractive. The trending patterns just pop out when you retrospectively look at stock charts. You salivate about catching a beginning trend and riding it through to its final conclusion many months down the road . The money beckons and sucess is before you ! Alas, in the real world trading is not quite so easy . You enter a trend – you may be a bit late or you get in near the trend’s beginning , but you do make it on board . You are now in the trade and you’re able to get a small profit as you see the predictions you made come true. Then you have a strong day and then the market stops dead when resistance is hit by the stock. You tell yourself that you can’t make the whole move in a day and there is more ahead and then you add to the position you are in . Then the next day the market opens , goes absolutely nowhere, and then it starts heading down fast. Because you have added to your position you are quickly back at break-even and once you have the orders in place, you have already lost money. What occured ? How could you tell before it happened that the trend wouldn’t continue and that instead you should take your profit when the market opened strongly up and paused ? Here are some trading tips that will tell when a trend will stop and when it will continue . If you use the tips along with the technical analysis training you’ll be on top of your game. First and most importantly : use higher time period charts to set your targets ; look for logical places of support and resistance to figure out where the market is going to stop or start moving . If you are not sure how you can predict where support and resistance will exist in the future , or within your trading are unsure of how to coordinate your time frames , then consider using technical analysis training course for some help . You’ll find Drummond Geometry to be a top option but there are many schools of thought which are valid as well . A tool is another element that you need with which to make judgments about the strength and robustness of a trend . Resistance or support will be broken through by a strong trend and a weak trend will stop and either go into sideways congestion at a point of resistance or support or it will reverse and move in the opposite direction . If your analysis tool kit has the right tool you can make a prediction of which action is more likely ; you’ll have to wait and see without the right tools , and you have a high possibility of getting disappointed. To measure this appropriately you should use momentum tools and apply the tools to a timeframe smaller than that of the trend you are currently trading … basically if you are trading a daily chart , with your trades try to pick the day’s high or low, then you would be looking at an hourly or half-hour chart to give you support in your trading decisions intraday . We will continue this discussion in part 2 of the technical analysis training series.
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Efforts to cap Deepwater Horizon oil spill delayed again
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Correction — May 11, 2011 This article incorrectly describes BP as ‘British Petroleum’. In fact, such a company has not existed for many years as BP dropped this name when becoming a multinational company. The initials no longer stand for anything.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
An attempt to cap the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has hit yet another obstacle, reported officials from British Petroleum (BP).
Friday night’s attempt to install a 6-inch (15.2cm) tube into the leaking drill pipe was only the latest in a series of efforts by BP to stop or slow down the spill. Previously, the oil company had tried to enclose the pipe with a large container dome, and then lowered a smaller “top hat” container dome. The siphon tube method is designed to reduce the amount of oil flowing into the ocean, but is not a permanent solution to stopping the leak altogether. It will draw the oil from the broken pipe to a tanker at the surface, said BP.
The tube was to be inserted into the broken pipe by robotic submarines, but the attempt on Friday to do so was unsuccessful, causing it to be taken back up for changes. The problem was a metal frame on the tube, which had changed position and this prevented the tube sent down from the drill ship Discover Enterprise from connecting. The tube had not been inserted into the leaking drill pipe before it was brought back up.
BP said that it would try again Saturday night (local time) to slow the leak using a reconfigured tube. If this attempt is unsuccessful, they will use the smaller dome to cap the leak, and may also try to plug the leak by covering it with trash, mud, or concrete. The company is already in the process of drilling relief wells to completely stop the leak, but this is expected to take several more months. The amount of oil currently leaking from the pipe is disputed, and BP said it has spent several hundred million US dollars in response to the oil spill.
BP was also given permission yesterday by the US Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency to use chemical oil dispersants to combat the spill.
