Oriana Fallaci obit

From the NY Times:

Oriana Fallaci, a dissecting interviewer of the powerful and an iconoclastic journalist turned icon herself, who in recent years wrote angrily about the threat of Islam, died today in her home city of Florence, the hospital reported. She was 77. . .

She became famous in the 1960’s and ’70’s for her war reporting and long, aggressive and revealing interviews with prominent people. Ms. Fallaci was once labeled “the journalist to whom virtually no world figure would say no.” Among others, she interviewed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni, Yasir Arafat, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Nguyen Van Thieu and Henry Kissinger.

Mr. Kissinger, President Nixon’s secretary of state, called the experience “the most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press.”

Posted by David on September 15, 2006 5:34 PM