Nicholas Kristof And Cheryl WuDunn Release "Tightrope: Americans Reaching For Hope"
Here's the trailer.
Alan: If you don't know NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof, a self-described "progressive," he has been rightly described as the conscience of his journalistic generation. Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and The New Yorker, a Harvard classmate, has said: "I'm not surprised to see him emerge as the moral conscience of our generation of journalists. I am surprised to see him as the Indiana Jones of our generation of journalists."[10] Bill Clinton said in September 2009: "There is no one in journalism, anywhere in the United States at least, who has done anything like the work he has done to figure out how poor people are actually living around the world, and what their potential is. ... So every American citizen who cares about this should be profoundly grateful that someone in our press establishment cares enough about this to haul himself all around the world to figure out what's going on. ... I am personally in his debt, as are we all."[11]
Nick has been described as "a cross between Mother Teresa and James Woods' character in El Salvador."
(BTW... "El Salvador" is a great movie. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salvador)
(BTW... "El Salvador" is a great movie. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salvador)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says that a page one article by Kristof in January 1997 about child mortality in the developing world helped direct the couple toward global health as a focus of philanthropy. A framed copy of that article is in the gallery of the Gates Foundation.
Between 2010 and 2018 Kristof wrote three articles about Kevin Cooper, a man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a family in California. In these articles Kristof made the case that Cooper had been framed by a racist Sheriff's department and that the true killer was a white contract killer named Lee Furrow. After the third article Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein both called for a second round of DNA testing to clarify whether Cooper had been framed. 7 months after the article departing Governor Jerry Brown authorized limited retesting to settle the issue; the testing is still ongoing...
In 2011, Kristof was named one of seven "Top American Leaders" by the Harvard Kennedy School and The Washington Post. "His writing has reshaped the field of opinion journalism," The Washington Post explained in granting the award.[2] Earlier, in 2007, U.S. News & World Report named Kristof one of "America's Best Leaders."[16]
In 2013, Kristof was awarded the Goldsmith Award for Career Excellence in Journalism by Harvard University. Alex Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning director of Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center, declared in presenting the award that "the reporter who's done more than any other to change the world is Nick Kristof."[17] In the same year, Kristof was named an International Freedom Conductor by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, largely for his work exposing human trafficking and linking it to modern slavery. The last person named to receive the title, two years earlier, was the Dalai Lama.[18]
Plaudits are innumerable.
Nick grew up on a sheep and cherry farm in rural Oregon.
Nicolas Kristof And Cheryl WuDunn Release "Tightrope: Americans Reaching For Hope"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqfd36kz2c
Nicholas Kristof On Loneliness And Despair In America
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/tightrope-nicholas-kristof-on.html
Nicholas Kristof On Loneliness And Despair In America
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/tightrope-nicholas-kristof-on.html
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Kristof and wife WuDun, the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize
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