User:Jack39

I'm a journalist mostly interested in pages relating to journalism, literature, politics, history and the media. I rarely add things and have still only created a couple of articles. Most of my edits delete or rephrase the conjecture, banality and crimes against clarity that haunt Wikipedia.

Authors

 * Nicholas Tomalin, Investigative journalist and author
 * Ian MacDonald, Rock critic and author of Revolution In The Head
 * David Runciman, Academic at Cambridge university who writes about politics for the London Review Of Books
 * Geoffrey Ward, American historian who co-wrote Ken Burns's most recent documentary
 * Michael Herr, Journalist who wrote Dispatches and co-wrote the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.
 * Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and historian. He wrote the first episode of The World At War, which is one of the best narratives I've ever heard. The very beginning can be viewed here.

Publications

 * The Cambridge Student, The newspaper I edited when I was at university
 * The New Statesman, British fortnightly current affairs magazine

Dramatists

 * Aaron Sorkin, Deity of dialogue who wrote the West Wing and A Few Good Men and other plays and films.
 * William Goldman, Sorkin's mentor who wrote Marathon Man and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid