This is a short summary, I would like you to go and read at least half of the long story about this man, a great journalist and we will talk about why he was..a great journalist. Why do you think he was?

David Halberstam, 73, Reporter and Author, Dies
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Mr. Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote
more than 20 books on topics as varied as the Vietnam War
and basketball.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?th&emc=th