![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a revealing and personal account that will fascinate not only NPR listeners but also anyone interested in the state of our world today and how the media covers it. In Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions, Burnett exposes the hilarious moments, bizarre encounters, dangerous highways, insufferable colleagues, and unsung heroes he's known through his adventures as an NPR reporter. Burnett neither turns his eyes away from the horror nor overstates the situation of the victims of war, poverty, homicide by the state, or natural catastrophes. John Burnett recounts the experiences that have shaped his career as a National Public Radio correspondent, describing his impressions of the Davidian standoff in Waco, the Kosovo conflict, the guerrilla wars in Central America, the U.S. ![]() Now he fills in those rich tidbits, letting us witness the parts of the stories that remained off the air. And he was one of NPR's lead reporters on 9/11 and its aftermath.īut no matter how much time Burnett has on the air to report his stories-and how expertly he has done so-there are always valuable details that aren't mentioned. He has covered the drug wars in Central America been embedded in a Marine Division in Iraq and weathered Hurricane Katrina, breaking news hourly on the conditions in New Orleans. Burnett has reported from the Branch Davidian standoff and the Kosovo conflict. In this candid, intimate account, an award-winning 20-year veteran NPR correspondent takes readers behind the scenes of the major events of our time, letting us see what it's really like gathering the news on the front linesĪs a radio journalist whose work appears regularly on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, John F. ![]()
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