"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other \'profession\' that would have me.
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America\'s leading polemicist\'s rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he\'s reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa ("a. "I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other \'profession\' that would have me