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David Brooks on Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

The New York Times OpEd columnist wrote, "The Sidney Awards," for the December 25 issue of the Times.  Every year, I give out Sidney Awards to the best magazine essays of the year. In an age of zipless, electronic media, the idea is to celebrate (and provide online links to) long-form articles that have narrative drive and social impact. The first rule of the Sidneys is that they cannot go to any article that appeared in The Times. So David Rohde does not get a Sidney for his unforgettable series on being held captive by the Taliban. But those pieces possess exactly the virtues that the Sidneys are meant to honor, and they make one proud to be a journalist. And: The most powerful essay I read this year was David Grann?s ?Trial by Fire? in The New Yorker...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).