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Still, as David Bailey says, "The credibility of this sport has a long way to go." Bailey should know. Bailey took the motocross world by storm last year, winning an unprecedented three national titles and more than $1 million in prize money. This year he has become the sport's unofficial spokesman and media darling...
...standards, Bailey fits the motorcyclist image. He has been racing for more than half his life, had to take correspondence courses to finish high school and admits that if he weren't racing he would probably be pumping gas or cashiering at a 7-11 store. Yet he says he has worked hard to be a positive role model for children and an articulate spokesman for the sport...
...were earlier print, radio and television reporters. Many, he notes, even owe their original prominence to their political backgrounds: Jody Powell, Bill Moyers and Pierre Salinger were presidential press secretaries, and William Safire and Patrick Buchanan were Nixon speechwriters. Only Salinger and Buchanan had previously worked on newspapers. Bailey recalls the "spectacular stumble" of syndicated conservative Columnist George F. Will, who, when criticized for helping coach his friend Ronald Reagan for the 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, said he felt exempt 5 from the rules of neutrality because he was not a "journalist." (About to become a regular commentator...
...Bailey has sharp words for big-money journalists. Washington writers can "match their newspaper salaries by delivering one lecture a month .. . Should media 'stars' take fat lecture fees-while the media continually criticize members of Congress for the size and frequency of the honoraria they receive for making speeches?" Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Bailey points out, "sponsor a semiannual Washington seminar for businessmen, who pay several hundred dollars each to spend a day Listening to high Government officials and political leaders." How obligated, Bailey asks, are Evans and Novak to officials who help them make money...
...Bailey's basic attitude is that if exceptions to journalistic norms are permitted, they should be accompanied by full "disclosure-relentless, repetitive, even boring." This seems a tiny answer to a large problem. He argues that disclaimers need Little space: "George Will was Legislative assistant to a Republican Senator before becoming a columnist." But how often should we be told that Diane Sawyer of CBS once worked in Nixon's press office...