Yen Do and Anh Do in Mydans article
From: Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu>
Date: May 17, 2006 6:44 AM
Subject: [Vsg] Yen Do and Anh Do in Mydans article
Hi all, today's New York Times has a well-researched and insightful
article by Seth Mydans about Yen Do the founder of Nguoi Viet newspaper
and his daughter Anh Do. The research lies in listening to the
informants, not Mydans' usual tactic, and the insight in portraying
Yen's role as community servant and Anh's complementary one as
coporate-style journalist. Really piece, rich enough to teach.
"The Rough Drafts of Vietnamese-American History", Seth Mydans, NYT, in
Naitonal Report, page A14, Wed May 17 2006. Four columns half-page,
including gorgeous photo of Yen that takes up 3/8.
From: Dan Tsang <dtsang@lib.uci.edu>
Date: May 17, 2006 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Vsg] Yen Do and Anh Do in Mydans article
Seth Mydan's piece (he's now with International Herald Tribune), is an
update of an earlier piece in the IHT that is still free on the web:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/19/business/profile20.php
An editor's dose of harmony for Little Saigon's wounds
By Seth Mydans International Herald Tribune
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006
...
The original Saigon, capital of South Vietnam and since renamed Ho Chi
Minh City, suffered through the privations of orthodox Communist rule
before leaping a decade ago into a time of helter-skelter physical and
social development. In Little Saigon, the Vietnamese past is rooted in
place, but an American future is transforming it into something
increasingly different from its namesake.
...
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From: David Marr <dgm405@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Date: May 17, 2006 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Vsg] Yen Do and Anh Do in Mydans article
I got to know Yen Do (aka Do Ngoc Yen) during the Summer of 1965, when he
was participating in the School of Youth for Social Service, and I was
collecting info for my MA thesis. I remember him as an intense, serious
bloke. It's interesting in the Mydans interview how he emphasizes
subsequently swearing off `politics', when I should think creating and
developing a successful paper in `Little Saigon' required a refined
political sense.