National Journalist
Introduction

You will write a review of what the national press reported about Ben Linder.

Definition A national journalist writes for a major national journal, a newspaper of other publication that reaches a wide national audience.
Questions Read one of the articles below and answer these questions.
  1. Analyze the articles for information you determine to be important for the United States to know.
  2. Compare what is written by the international press with that of the national, and local.
  3. What different perspecives are represented?
  4. Who are the different reading audiences of the articles?
  5. What difference does that make?
Resources

Americans in Nicaragua
Fatal Calling; Benjamin Linder of Portland, Oregon, felt he was needed, that he could make a difference in NicaraGUA. He understood it would be dangerous. He went anyway., Washington Post, 1987.

Beat the Devil
Berman and Linder. (reaction to Paul Berman's article on killers of Benjamin Linder)
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation,1996.

A Personal Mission
Little Time for Mourning Since the contras killed her son, the first American volunteer to perish in the Nicaraguan conflict, Elisabeth Linder has traveled widely to condemn U. S. policy, Newsday, 1987.