It's been 35 years since I co-authored the biggest story of my career as a journalist, "The Inside Story" in Rolling Stone about the saga of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Watching a documentary about the case currently airing on MSNBC the other night, a flood of memories came back.
I'm interviewed extensively in the film, as are others from the era.
This is the first documentary based at least partially on my writings that has appeared in many years. A much earlier film, For Export Only: Pesticides, in the '80s, was largely based on a book I co-authored called Circle of Poison.
There have been others, notably Global Dumping Ground.
That's one of the pleasures of reporting and writing -- seeing your work transformed into other media.
Of course, I've written thousands of other articles that led t no such followup, including some of the earliest journalism about the potential for global terrorist acts more than twenty years before 9/11.
But that's one of the major frustrations of journalism; much of what you do is ignored until it is much too late.
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2 comments:
"...But that's one of the major frustrations of journalism; much of what you do is ignored until it is much too late."
This is the bane of humanity- not just in the journalism realm, but in life as a whole...ignoring creativity, greatness, knowledge...until it is too late!
You are so right and that will be a theme of many upcoming posts here. Actually, about how to not be "too late"...
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