Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spiro Agnew, among others, has observed that the nation's media are dominated by doom and crisis; good news is no news, it seems. Now, for the Vice President and other frustrated optimists, there is hope-in the form of a forthcoming Sacramento weekly called The Aquarian Times, billed by Publisher Bill Bailey, a former adman, as "America's first good-news newspaper." The Times will ban ads for cigarettes and skin flicks. The first issue, ready next week, will list stocks-but only those that have gone up. The lead story will report that...
...with little contradiction. He monopolizes news-media coverage. He injects excitement into state contests that have evoked ennui. Hence the President will have covered at least 22 states in the campaign's final 21 days. Last week he sent Pat to Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Nevada; Spiro Agnew continued to sweep across the country juggernaut-style, scourging radic-libs (see ESSAY...
Slamming Lines. The President offers an appropriate contrast to his Vice President. Throughout the campaign, Agnew has dealt in invective and named individual opponents; last week he said that Adlai Stevenson III had "demeaned his great name." Nixon attacks on a higher plane, treating the opposition as an abstract mass guilty of collective failure. He individually identifies only his honored Republicans...
...Republican antidote, however necessary, that has cut profits and jobs. Therefore the key to the campaign is whether voters have been aroused enough over violence and dissent to put aside their unhappiness over pocketbook issues. The President has banked on that. The powerful campaign mounted by Nixon and Agnew has succeeded at least to the extent of keeping the Democrats on the defensive...
Last week in Chicago, Vice President Agnew proposed that television news commentators be publicly examined on their "underlying philosophy" by a panel of Government officials. On the CBS Evening News, Eric Sevareid replied...