R. W. Apple, Jr. (1934-Present) US journalist. He was the Washington. DC. bureau chief of the "NY Times," 1993-; author of "Europe: An Uncommon Guide," 1986.

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A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .
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Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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