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Truth Be Told: Saving the Soul of Journalism

Some years ago, when I was a correspondent based in Africa for The Washington Post, a mysterious fellow representing the antigovernment peasant rebellion then raging in Ethiopia got in touch with me to offer a rare proposition: How would I like to visit Tigray, the provincial heartland of the insurgency, to report on life and the war...

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