Talk:Bernard Redmont

OTRS Subject request
The subject has submitted the following information via the OTRS system and has given me permission to republish the request on wiki. Please take a look and see what you can verify and use. 732935 NonvocalScream (talk) 17:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Concerns
1) You state that the subject speaks German and Latin . I have a good working and speaking knowledge of French and Spanish. 2) You state my past connection with a so-called "Rockefeller commission." Your reference should have noted, if used, that the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs was unofficially sometimes known as "the Rockefeller agency," not commission. 3.) You state I was head of the "Foreign News Bureau" of the CIAA. There is, to my knowledge, no such bureau, but I was head of the News Division of this agency. 4). You state that I was named as a Soviet spy. This is an outrageous and defamatory charge. The so-called Verona papers are controversial as to their meaning and authenticity, as your own pages note, in the judgment of author and editor Victor Navasky I request that you delete all such assertions. 5) You note an interview with Mai Van Bo. The news report is incorrect. The interview identified only a high North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris, but not by name, under the ground rules. 6) The pages mention my journalistic coverage of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but fail to note the coverage of the 1967 Six Day War from Cairo. 7) You should delete your misleading sources and external links, and list as sources Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Education, as well as the book, "Risks Worth Taking," ,(University Press of America),. which I authored.

I herewith submit to you an authentic and accurate biography of myself, which can be corroborated by the material in the two Who's Who publications.

Bernard S. Redmont was born in New York City on Nov. 8, 1918. He earned his B.A. at City College, M.S. at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an honorary doctorate from Florida International University. Now Dean Emeritus of Boston University’s College of Communication, he has had three successful careers: He was an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent who reported in 55 countries, including France, Russia and Argentina. He was later a professor and dean. And finally, because he never believed in retirement, he serves as a Lead Consultant for the Executive Service Corps of New England, contributing his talents to help non-profit organizations. He is also a regular contributor of essay-reviews to Television Quarterly magazine. As an 18-year-old student, Redmont broke into the profession as a reporter and book reviewer for the old Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle. He went on to be a reporter and telegraph editor on the Herkimer (NY) Evening Telegram. Since then, he covered more events in more places than most reporters dream of doing, working for news agencies, newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Based in Paris for 27 years, Moscow for three and Buenos Aires for three, Redmont worked for such news organizations as U.S. News & World Report, Agence France-Presse, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and CBS News. Redmont covered the rise and fall of Charles de Gaulle, the Vietnam peace talks, the dictatorship of Argentine General Juan Peron and his wife Evita, the struggles of Andrei Sakharov for human rights, wars in the Pacific and the Middle East, and the French-Algerian war. During World War II, he was a U.S. Marine Combat Correspondent in the Pacific, was wounded during the fighting in the Marshall Islands and was awarded the Purple Heart. He also served on the staff of Nelson A. Rockefeller, wartime Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, directing news broadcasts to Latin America. He covered the 1967 Six Day War from Egypt, and was interned with other American correspondents for three days in Cairo. He covered the 1973 Yom Kippur War in Israel, entering Syria with Israeli troops. Redmont first covered Russia in 1939 in the Stalin era, later under Khrushchev, then Brezhnev, and finally Gorbachev. From 1982-89 he was Professor of Journalism and Dean at Boston University. As an academic, he lectured widely in the U.S., France, Britain, Italy, Morocco, Russia and China. His book, “Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent” was published in 1992. Among his honors and awards were Pulitzer Fellow, 1939-40; winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for best radio reporting from abroad, in 1969 and 1974; Columbia University Alumni Award “ for the advancement of responsible journalism in all its forms,” 1986; Townsend Harris Medal “for distinguished contributions in his chosen field of work and to the welfare of his fellow men,” 1991; Yankee Quill Award for “distinguished contributions to journalism,” 1995; and Communications Hall of Fame, 2001. While in France, he was President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris. Redmont began consulting work for the International Executive Service Corps with assignments in liberated Albania, helping with programming on Albanian Television in Tirana, and in Bulgaria for the first independent radio station in Sofia. Later, he joined the domestic Executive Service Corps, and has been working with diverse organizations such as the New England Aquarium, the Boston Public School Principals Program and groups in the fields of human services, drug abuse, music and the arts, community development, ecology and health care. He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1973 by French President Georges Pompidou. Redmont resides with his wife Joan in Canton, MA. They have two children, Dennis, journalist and media specialist in Rome, and Jane, a professor of religion and women’s studies at Guilford College, and two grandsons and two great grandchildren.

//END PASTE// That is about it. Best, NonvocalScream (talk) 17:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)