Burnham reported for the New York Times for fifteen years, where he
developed an interest in nuclear safety issues (Karen Silkwood crashed on
her way to see him in 1974). Two years later he joined with George Lardner
of the Washington Post and Jeremiah O'Leary of the Washington Star and led
the successful attack to dump Richard Sprague, general counsel of the new
House Select Committee on Assassinations (Lardner was the last person to
see David Ferrie alive in 1967). In 1983 Burnham's "The Rise of the Computer
State" appeared, an alarmist book which didn't foresee the microcomputer
revolution and consequently locked out some unthinking liberals by treating
all computers as a threat to the privacy of the little guy. Reporters can
be hazardous to your health, so at PIR we congratulate Burnham on this
latest book and hope he stays interested in the IRS.
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