Kudos to Dan Fagin ’85, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth. What I remember most about his directorate was them sitting around the lounge in Robinson Hall watching “The McLaughlin Group”and their banter and discussion would soon escalate to drown out the real pundits. Besides Reuters reporter Alison Frankel ’85, the group included eventual Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Jim Newton ’85. A cub reporter that year was another eventual New York Timesman, Jacques Steinberg ’88.

-Mark Weiss ’86, a blogger at “Plastic Alto” on WordPress
(I posted this on disqus section of The Dartmouth, article by Treeman Baker)

see also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

a slightly greater dose of fagin/mclaughlinism:

this is the mcguffin:

There’s a rock band outside Philadelphia, and about 60 miles from Toms River, New Jersey, that Dan Fagin chronicles, whose song and song title references the Paracelsian notion of “dose-response relationships” that he describes regarding the cancer cluster near the pharmaceutical companies, I noted gleefully: Circa Survive, on Equal Visions Records:

And because Dan Fagin and I are both products of the 1980s, a more obvious association would be the Joe Jackson chestnut “everything gives you cancer/there’s no cure there’s no answer” which is probably not technically correct; Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello songs and lyrics were part of a reporter’s tool kit back at The Dartmouth; I remember Dan and I having a bit of a spat over whether it was too cheeky to lift a Joe Jackson song title for use on a “news brief” headline: he was right, I was wrong. I feel it. (If I didn’t say that to him at journalism alumni events in Hanover and New York in the late 1990s…).

Kudos, congrats and a hearty wah-hoo-wah to my former editor Dan Fagin for winning the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction for his book “Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation” (Bantam Books, New York, 2013), which deals with the relationship between industry and toxics, especially in a New Jersey community, home to Ciba-Geigy. I’m just working thru the book, thanks to Palo Alto libraries and it reminds me of: Rachel Carson, Erin Brockovitch, but also Bong’s “The Host” and various detective stories, like Peter Falk’s Columbo.