Through A Lens, Darkly.
Israel Faxx, April, 2008
By The Jewish Week
A son of Holocaust refugees, NBC newsman Martin Fletcher was compelled to expose atrocities around the world. But covering Israel is his biggest challenge.
Fletcher wasn't alive during the Holocaust but, in a way, he's spent his entire career covering it. His parents fled Austria as the Nazis came to power, settling safely in England. But they lost almost their entire families, the once-comfortable lives they left behind and, in a sense, their faith in the world.
"The burden of the Holocaust was too great for my parents, and they unloaded some of it onto me: a certain buried sadness, hatred for bullies and sympathy for their victims," Fletcher writes in "Breaking News," his memoir of more than three decades as a foreign...
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