My Hero
Media columnist Robert Feder accepted a buyout from the Chicago Sun-Times. I’ve never read his column before today, but in a tribute to him fellow columnist Carol Marin tells this story:
Once, while covering a teachers strike for the school paper at Niles East High School in 1973, Feder hid in a closet during a meeting of the teachers union. None of the participants ever knew how Feder was able to report so much of what had gone on at the closed-door meeting.
A man after my own heart. Meanwhile, head over the EIA homepage for more video from the staff picket line in front of Oregon Education Association headquarters.
September 25th, 2008 at 08:48
Perhaps someone should forward the idea to the CIA. What with all the high-tech this and high-tech that they may have forgotten the basics.