Word: anderson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hopes after his release a year ago. He said he was convinced Waite was still alive and was being held in isolation in Beirut. He told a television interviewer that his guards had called the man in the cell next to his "Terry," and he knew it wasn't Anderson...
Some time after that, Waite was allowed to join McCarthy, Anderson and Sutherland. "We had to work very hard between us to keep our spirits up," McCarthy said last week. "We have done that very well, I think. The men I was with -- Terry Waite, Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland -- were all very strong men. They supported me, and I hope I've supported them...
Photograph of Terry Anderson via AP; John McCarthy by Martin Cleaver...
...without citing the official by name. Explained Karen DeYoung, the Post's assistant managing editor for national news: "Our policy is that we don't write about personal lives of public officials unless the personal aspects begin influencing the way they perform their jobs." The paper canceled a Jack Anderson column, normally a featured item, because it named the man, even though editors assumed many of Anderson's 700-plus clients would run the story, making the Post's discretion largely symbolic...
Hardly any serious newspaper, magazine or network would accept so loosely sourced a story from its own staff. Yet few journalists tried to verify the claims in the Advocate before repeating its main point. Syndicated columnist Anderson and his partner Dale Van Atta compounded the damage with a claim that the official "is considering resigning because of accusations that he is a homosexual." Instead, Van Atta admits, the official directly said in an interview he had no plans to quit. Asked to explain this contradiction, Van Atta lamely contended, "I said he was considering resigning, and that...