Word: ap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wire services are America's biggest bastions of public relations reporting. To insure that none of their hundreds of local subscribers will object to their coverage, the AP and the UPI are careful to present the official version of news stories in the blandest and least provocative manner. Their philosophy in its most banal formulation is: aim at the lowest common denominator of public interest and avoid alientating either the Chicago Tribune or the Podunk Gazette. Investigative reporting that might raise hackles anywhere is, of course, out of the question: how Hersh managed to break the MyLai story while working...
...awakening lifts his novel above the ordinary Southern tale of lo cal "unforgettable" characters. Both young Egan's body and mind seem to bud together. Defining, then trying to name new experiences in his own way, lead to his first steps as a poet. Art, it ap pears, must provide him with the security and faith that an absent father-hero never did. It is a promising theme, particularly when suggested by the work of an author who left a religious order to write fiction. · R.Z. Sheppard
...first time in years, Japan is running a significant deficit in its balance of payments, and its lopsided trade surplus with the U.S. - which has sorely strained relations between the two countries - is diminishing. Says William D. Eberle, the demanding chief U.S. trade negotiator with Japan: "The trade imbalance ap pears to have peaked and is beginning to go down." By happy coincidence Washington reported last week that in April the U.S. showed its first trade sur plus in 18 months...
...process of "utilizing Harvard," Niemans pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. For example, current Nieman Bob Stanton, an AP science writer from the West Coast, spent much of the year as a bench regular in the Biology labs to observe and experience a scientist's milieu first-hand. Niemans Wayne Greenhaw of The Alabama Journal and Ed Williams, capitol correspondent for The Greenville, Miss. Delta-Democrat Times, offered an Institute of Politics seminar on Southern Politics. Another Nieman-sponsored course this Spring was a Quincy House seminar on journalism led by Bob Wyrick, a former Newsday reporter...
...Most Niemans are basically unhappy about something in the profession or in the work they were doing," Bill Stockton, an AP science writer and current Nieman says. "But the people who have come here find the year has greatly changed them. Their experience can be translated into tangible things that the world of journalism can see. You have a year to be thoughtful and reflective in a highly charged intellectual atmosphere--and it puts it all together...