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...past, any scandal reflecting on a newspaper might have been acknowledged briefly, if at all, back among the truss ads. But the best papers have learned from Watergate a lesson that officeholders in government are still learning: any attempt to cover up or to play down a scandal is apt to worsen...
Wrote Washington Post Columnist Mark Shields in an apt commentary: "For uttering ethnic or racial references far less offensive than those allegedly made by candidate Jackson, other politicians have been hounded by camera crews and microphones and harangued by their political opponents. Why the apparent double standard for a presidential candidate who happens to be black...
...Angeles Times has twelve campaign reporters; only two of them travel full time with individual candidates, and those two often swap assignments. Times National Editor Norman Miller points out that reporters who remain in the cocoon not only run the risk of getting stale, but are apt to lose perspective; they can become focused on what he calls the "inside baseball" of strategy. Says he: "It does not help a person to make a choice on whom to vote for if we go on about how good an organization someone has in Iowa...
...time badgering one set of people (politicians, coaches, businessmen) who may at the moment be reluctant to comment, and the rest of the time fending off others (politicians, performers, promoters) all too eager to draw attention to themselves. Those avoiding the press, or avoided by the press, are apt to consider the process unfair...
...bizarre, sexually frustrated roommate Dolly (Cher). Both Russell and Cher turn in excellent performances, overcoming past stereotypes--Russell as the adventurous hero of Walt Disney stories, and Cher on the careening rock star. All the cast seems grounded in the setting, and their action are believable, while apt overly dramatic...