“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know.” John Gunther once wrote. “The second is to find out who will tell you.” Gunther, who died in 1970, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious and prolific journalists: He knew what he wanted to know, found out who would tell him, and told the rest of us in Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A.,
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“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know.” John Gunther once wrote. “The second is to find out who will tell you.” Gunther, who died in 1970, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious and prolific journalists: He knew what he wanted to know, found out who would tell him, and told the rest of us in Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A.,
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