Word: antipress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burger did not have a personal peeve against the press. "There is a certain undertone of resentment against the press, a sort of 'Who do they think they are?' feeling among a few Justices," remarked Michigan's Blasi. But he warned against overplaying the court as antipress. Like other First Amendment experts, Blasi points to a little-noticed unanimous decision striking down criminal sanctions against a newspaper for disclosing confidential state proceedings against a judge in Virginia. With sweeping language-written by Press Nemesis Burger-the court effectively allows the press to print virtually any government information...
...Distrust. Despite a few antipress outbursts, the Sunbelt Republicans, who provided most of the convention action, appeared to have outgrown their old distrust of the Eastern-based networks. "They have discovered what protesting students and blacks discovered a decade ago," concluded Columnist Joseph Kraft. "They have come to know how to play media games." Indeed, in many ways the convention was a manipulated-for-TV event. President Ford and Ronald Reagan scheduled their arrivals in Kansas City to ensure live coverage on the ABC and CBS pre-convention specials. The Ford forces posted two men in trailers just outside...
During his cross-examination Bailey sarcastically noted that in advance of his court appearance Fort had composed a four-page "antipress release," complete with biographical data, and had coupled it with a request for anonymity. "Your method of protecting your anonymity," Bailey asked incredulously, "was to send out twelve copies of this release to members of the press?" He also got Fort to acknowledge that he was not certified as a psychiatrist, although he had spent a one-year internship and a three-year residency in the field. Snapped Bailey: "I doubt he [Fort] has the ability to recognize...
Among columnists, Old-Line Liberal Marquis Childs joined Conservatives James Kilpatrick and Joseph Alsop in the antipress chorus on the Kissinger incident. Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger?a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"?might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder." Well, hardly. But the press?especially Washington newsmen?had indeed given the unfortunate impression of ganging up on the only hero in town...
Despite Nixon's antipress thrusts and the imperfections of the format, the press conference is still of great value. Aside from the election campaign and the State of the Union message, nothing in the American system requires the President to report to the public directly. A press conference gives the electorate a chance to see how the Chief Executive responds to - or dodges - at least some of the moment's major issues. The fact that the President can and usually does exercise a great deal of control over these exchanges is hardly new. Calvin Coolidge, who insisted...