1.   An award-winning Texas journalist tells the life story of a beloved former first lady and wildflower activist.

2.   An Italian journalist told me that in Italy, Dole was considered a dead ringer for Humphrey Bogart.

3.   An Italian journalist told me that the audiences here are still not accustomed to modern dance.

4.   An obsessive journalist tells the vivid tale of a Texas singer-songwriter who scrambles up and down the ladder of musical success.

5.   A Japanese journalist told Lockhart that her editors asked her not to mention that Lockhart married Lucia Lin, a Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist, last year.

6.   A Vietnamese journalist tells us the Hanoi government still puts too many restrictions on the economy but is learning slowly to open up some areas.

7.   I want to watch telegenic journalists tell the entire country what needs to be done to perfect society and belittle me for not doing it.

8.   If journalists told the truth about even a few things, they would be more despised than they already are and newspapers everywhere would go bankrupt from the lawsuits.

9.   Mainstream journalists cannot tell their readers or viewers never mind.

10.   May no journalist tell a sympathetic story of his life.