Reply #19: JUDY BACHRACH pieces - WOW, I'm impressed! [View All]

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http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Ashcroft-Patriot-Games1feb04.htm
John Ashcroft's Patriot Games
JUDY BACHRACH / Vanity Fair 1feb04
The revolution inside John Ashcroft's Justice Department—an array of new crime-prevention powers embodied in the Patriot Act—has been fueled by the attorney general's ambition, intelligence, and unusually extreme beliefs about everything from the similarities between himself and Jesus to the post-9/11 role of law enforcement, to the purported demonic properties of calico cats. But as nervous sources share stories of his Missouri governorship, and former staffers and Senate allies speak out, JUDY BACHRACH discovers that Ashcroft has also sparked a growing backlash, one with surprisingly bipartisan power
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http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/bachrach.htm
Righting the Writing - The Politics of Prose
by Judy Bachrach
You only have to look at the media obsessions of the past summer to realize how far we have come. Lizzie Grubman, a bratty young woman acting out in the Hamptons. Gary Condit, a congressman who was tried and found guilty of murder by the press, despite a striking lack of evidence to prove he was guilty of anything more than philandering. Psychics who claimed to know the fate of Condit's missing girlfriend, Chandra Levy, earnestly implored by talk show hosts, Paula Zahn most notably, to provide ever more precise details of her whereabouts. These became, over the course of months, the solitary interests of a famished public, its appetite whetted -- but never quite sated - by an eternity of coverage, much of it bad.
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http://www.laborers.org/Ickes_Vanity-9-97.html
VANITY FAIR
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
BY JUDY BACHRACH
Sepetember 1997
Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes supervised the White House fund-raising machine until he was brutally dumped after the president's re-election. Now Ickes has handed over his files to congressional investigators, revealing the president's price tag and showing that the ultimate Clinton loyalist is a very angry man
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