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===Journalist=== In 1947, Cooke became a [[foreign correspondent]] for the ''Manchester Guardian'' newspaper (later ''[[The Guardian]]''), for which he wrote until 1972. It was the first time he had been employed as a staff reporter; all his previous work had been freelance.<ref>{{cite news|title=Alistair Cooke correspondence sheds light on reporting dark days of 1968|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/14/alistair-cooke-correspondence-reporting-1968|access-date=14 November 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 November 2012|location=London|first=James|last=Meikle}}</ref> In reporting on the [[Montgomery bus boycott]], begun by [[Rosa Parks]] and led by [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King]], Cooke expressed sympathy for the economic costs imposed on the city bus company and referred to Mrs. Parks as "the stubborn woman who started it all ... to become the [[Paul Revere]] of the boycott."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks|author=Jeanne Theoharis|author-link=Jeanne Theoharis|page=114|isbn=978-0-8070-5048-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JAAN3WIiEAgC&q=Cooke|date=2013-01-29|publisher=Beacon Press }}</ref> Martin Luther King complained about Cooke's "biased and hostile reports", which motivated philosopher [[Michael Dummett]] to write his own refuting report, which ''The Guardian'' refused to publish.<ref>Michael Dummett, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/critphilrace.3.1.0001 "Montgomery (and A. Cooke)"]. With an Introduction by [[Robert Bernasconi]]. ''Critical Philosophy of Race'', Volume 3, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 1β19.</ref> In 1968, Cooke was only yards away from [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|Robert F. Kennedy when he was assassinated]], witnessing the events that followed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/215401.stm |title=The death of Senator Robert Kennedy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021016010611/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/215401.stm |archive-date=16 October 2002 |access-date=25 May 2013 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
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