{"id":1538,"date":"2007-10-22T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-10-22T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:07:35","slug":"journalism_agai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Journalism, again."},"content":{"rendered":"

Vietnamese journalist and spy Pham Xuan An has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a reporter for Reuters and then for Time magazine, Mr. An covered American and South Vietnamese military and diplomatic events and was one of a handful of reporters admitted to off-the-record briefings by American authorities. Time made him a full staff correspondent, the only Vietnamese to be given that distinction by a major American news organization.<\/p>\n

\nAt the same time, however, Mr. An was delivering a steady stream of military documents and reports to North Vietnamese authorities, writing in invisible ink and leaving the material in containers at designated spots around Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The responses from his American colleagues are interesting:<\/p>\n

His former colleagues had conflicting reactions to his dual life.<\/p>\n

\n“He felt it was doing his patriotic duty by being an agent,” Stanley Karnow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a reporter for The Washington Post, said at the meeting, “but we were his friends, and he had great admiration for the United States.”<\/p>\n

\nMr. McCulloch, the Saigon bureau chief for Time during the war, said: “It tore him up. If circumstances had been reversed, if hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese had occupied my land, I probably would have done the same thing.”<\/p>\n

\nBut Burton Yale Pines, a Time correspondent during the war, said he was shocked. “Worse,” he said, “I am embarrassed that I trusted Mr. An as enormously as I – and my fellow journalists – did.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An’s take is also interesting:<\/p>\n

“The truth? Which truth?” he said in his interview with Mr. Safer. “One truth is that for 10 years I was a staff correspondent for Time magazine, and before that Reuters. The other truth is that I joined the movement in 1944 and in one way or another have been part of it ever since. Two truths – both truths are true.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to think about that for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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