Submersion Journalism : Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

by Wasik, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781595584793
• ISBN10: 159558479X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-02
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

"Submersion jurnalism" happens when a reporter dares to see a story from the inside: to participate in he events at hand, sometimes undercover, and then to tell the tale from a distinct point of view rather than pretend to some ideal of objectivity. During the Bush years. Harper's correspondents infiltrated the Republican machine, from its lowliest canvassing operation to its corporate and evangelical elite, and they posed as shady clients for sleazy blue-chip lobbying firms. They shot machine guns, lounged in Vegas brothels, and peered into secret tunnels in Mexicali. They terrorized art museums and touched off worldwide fads.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Politics
Bird-Dogging the Bush Vote: Undercover with Florida's Republican Shock Troops	p. 3
Their Men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s Lobbyists for Hire	p. 30
Jesus Plus Nothing: Undercover Among america' Secret Theocrats	p. 49
Violence
Teachings of Don Fernando: A Life and Death in the Narcotics Trade	p. 73
The Line is Hot: A History of the Machine Gun, Shot	p. 92
Illness
Welcome to Cancerland: A Mammogram Leads to a Cult of Pink Kitsch	p. 109
Manufacturing Depression: Notes on the Economy of Melancholy	p. 130
Vice
A Foreign Affair: On the Great Ukrainian Bride Hunt	p. 153
My undertaker, My Pimp: Looking for Grace in a Desert Brothel	p. 170
They Came out Like Ants! Searching for the Chinese Tunnels of Mexicali	p. 187
The Arts
what is Poetry?
And Does it Pay?	p. 217
Devil's Work: Secret Doings at the queen Museum of Art	p. 241
My Crowd: Or, Phase 5: A Report from the inventor of the flash Mob	p. 257
Confessions of War
Misinformation Intern: My Summer as a Military Propagandist in Iraq	p. 285
Out of Iraq: The rise and Fall of One Man's Occupation	p. 304
Contributors	p. 321
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