Karen Tumulty could be, well, a careless, shiftless reporter
Oct 21 at 8:08pm by Anonymous
This is a response to the article “The General Jumps In” by Karen Tumulty published in the September 29, 2003 issue of Time Magazine. The details contained herein are completely fictionalized. I know nothing of Ms. Tumulty’s life or personality. The intention is to satirize what she included in a feature on presidential candidate General Wesley Clark and in turn satirize the current state of mainstream political reporting.
Karen Tumulty
Karen Tumulty was always an achiever. As a girl growing up in Waterbury, Connecticut, she was known to swipe a neighbor’s copy of the New York Times, read it by flashlight in the lawn before the first rays of dawn broke the horizon, then carefully re-roll the newspaper, slide it into its plastic sleeve and replace it on her waking neighbor’s lawn, leaving him none the wiser. She interned as a seventeen year old at the Concord Recorder in New Hampshire, graduated at the top of her class from the Columbia School of Journalism before joining the metro then national bureau of the New York Times. There is no question that Tumulty is cut out to be a top-rated journalist. And it’s no surprise then that Tumulty finds her stories for Time Magazine regularly featured on the cover of the glossy weekly. Her rise has been swift and direct and she exudes the commanding air of a seasoned professional. When she enters her editorial offices; her cubicle is cluttered with a patchwork of loose papers and Post-It Notes on her computer. There are dozens of calls to return. Leads followed up by assistants. Background stories checked. Within minutes of arrival an assistant approaches to say presidential candidate Rep. Richard Gephardt’s people called. He’ll be available for an interview this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
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