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"I am sure there are many who think newspapers and television news are ever self-indulgent about their own and are making too much of the death of one 73-year-old man," writes
Richard Reeves. "But this time, we are not exaggerating our own importance.
David Halberstam's work and life are symbolic of a golden age of reporting, a time when journalism was much more than just another entertainment, a time when energetic young men and women made a difference, made this a better country." || Read tributes by
George Packer,
Joseph Galloway and
Tim Rutten. || Listen to Halberstam's last
speech || Check out Halberstam in "Doonesbury"
strips from 1979.
