Essays on John F. Burns
Here’s essays I’ve written in concert with my compilation of John F. Burns articles from the New York Times.
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No More John F. Burns Archive
So I’ve decided to stop updating the John F. Burns Archive. There are 180 posts in there– many of them are the complete text of his articles, mostly from the beginning of this second Gulf War we find ourselves in. I then decided to go to an “excerpts plus permalinks to free version on nyt.com”…
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The Importance of Clean Underwear
The surreal Saddam Hussein trial is prime real estate for the careful & wry reporting of John F. Burns. He has a way of presenting facts in the most Alice in Wonderland way. Here’s his take (written with Robert F. Worth) on what happened at the end of the day yesterday in a building near…
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Searching for John F. Burns
Here’s another in the “How I Use” series: Google Alerts. Over the last few months I have migrated the bulk of my news consumption and web research from Google to Yahoo!. In fact, my browser start page is now Yahoo! News, even though I was once a huge lover of the automaton Google News. I’ve…
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Dan Barry is Our Domestic John F. Burns
My fondness for the writing of John F. Burns is not a secret. But he is a foreign correspondent and doesn’t turn his typing to the cares at home. Dan Barry seems to be our domestic Burns. He takes the same warm stare, the same courage at putting the obvious, but painful, things into print.…
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John F. Burns and Iraqi KPIs
Today John F. Burns of the New York Times writes another of his calmly horrifying stories about Iraq. As usual, he calls a spade a spade and says that the long-feared Iraqi Civil War has already begun: From the moment American troops crossed the border 28 months ago, the specter hanging over the American enterprise…