Algerian Diary: Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933202629 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Must Read" according to Amazon Customer. This book was well written and engaging. The story and insight to Frank Kerns was interesting and informative. The hope the Algerians had for the United States to get involved is a storyline still so evident in today's world.. Excellent Jane Bishop Very quick delivery. Excellent book
"In an era of journalism now where the model is more attuned to balderdash based on weak or invalid claims, Kearns's work stands as an honorable model of what good reporting is." — Terry Wimmer, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and editor, and professor of journalism at the University of Arizona
They sent Frank Kearns to find out.Kearns took with him cameraman Yousef (“Joe”) Masraff and 400 pounds of gear, some of which they shed, and they hiked with FLN escorts from Tunisia, across a wide “no-man’s land,” and into the Aures Mountains of eastern Algeria, where the war was bloodiest. They carried no passports or visas. They dressed as Algerians. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. And they knew that if captured, they would be executed and left in unmarked graves. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared about this part of the world. But his stories were warning shots for conflicts that play out in the headlines today.In 1957, Senator John Kennedy described America’s view of the Algerian war for independence as the Eisenhower Administration’s “head in the sand policy.” So CBS News decided to find out what was really happening there and to determine where Algeria’s war for independence fit into the game plan for the Cold War. Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. But their job as journalists was to seek the truth whatever it might turn out to be.This is Frank Kearns’s diary. . They refused to bear weapons