As per usual, here’s an excerpt from Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein which ties into the upcoming post about emails. The book’s about a Jewish reporter assigned to the police beat in Tokyo and it’s a great read.
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The following is a memo that a former supervisor once wrote to us reporters on the police beat. It offers great insight into the amount of schmoozing and massaging involved in our job. I will say that the guy who wrote it is an excellent reporter who is willing to do real work to get a story rather than rely on the kindness of cops he’d done favors for. Be that as it may, the man is also a brownnoser without equal.
A Memo to Whom It May Concern