Word: badgering
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...believe in saying what I think." Paul Davies, president of the Stanford Review (circ. 1,000), agrees: "We are here to balance student debate." Because many papers begin as personal vehicles, some are short-lived. Those that survive may evolve: the University of Wisconsin's weekly Badger Herald (circ. 10,000) has been a conservative voice since 1969 but has gradually muted its attacks. Contends Editor John Stofflet: "Now people look to us for objective news." Occasionally, ideological zeal, undergraduate high spirits and the general absence of faculty supervision for these independent groups have led to rhetorical excesses, which...
...programs come in two kinds, orderly or contentious. CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press let a guest finish a sentence. On ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, questioners interrupt and badger the guest, which works well with facile and thick-skinned politicians, but can be unfair to the reflective. Sometimes these shows make headlines; their real value is to give viewers a sense of public figures they have only read about...
...vowing to keep mum may not stop the harassment. Local papers will often assign a team of four or five reporters to badger jurors in the first days after a trial. Says the New York Post's combative Steve Dunleavy: "I love to get inside a juror's head." Anthea Frankl sat on the White Plains, N.Y., murder trial growing out of the Stouffer's Inn fire that killed 26 business executives. She saw so many newspeople that she began to rate them, from the New York Times ("totally ethical") to a local Westchester County, N.Y., paper...
...first night in the city where Oscar Mayer never wished to be, my faithful companion--Lloyd Perlmutter, the student Sports Information Assistant and the voice of Bright Center--and I climbed into a Badger cab (after a quick perusal of the cab companies in the phone book, we had decided we would ride on the Badger's back or we would walk...
Once inside the Coliseum, I was surrounded by a bunch of red-cloaked clones, complete with red cowboy hats decorated with red Badger buttons. They filled up the Coliseum seats to form one big red bowl around the rink...