Word: brits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers plunked herself down in David Gergen's basement office in the West Wing last Monday night and laid out her problem. Just hours before, Clinton had named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, but then abruptly ended a press conference when Brit Hume of ABC News nettled the President with a question about his tortured selection process. Myers told Gergen that she expected the morning to bring good economic news, and was looking for a way to capitalize on that story and make the Rose Garden incident history. Gergen, who served as communications director...
...issues that matter," he said. The question-and-answer sessions represented a wary revival of Clinton's on- again, off-again truce with the media, which had reached a new low early in the week after Clinton introduced his Supreme Court nominee. When ABC correspondent Brit Hume asked about "a certain zigzag quality" in White House decision making, the President said peevishly, "How you could ask a question like that after the statement she just made is beyond me," then cut off further questions. Clinton mended fences by joking with Hume and other reporters at his later news conferences...
...scene has begun to heat up. A man named Norm is nuzzling a young woman who calls herself Tricia. Tricia, in turn, is gently biting Brit's neck, while Annabeth flirts in the corner with Chaz. Then Suzi breaks in and asks Norm if he's looking for some real action. As if to test the waters, Norm gives Suzi a passionate kiss. Suzi kisses Norm back, hard. With no further preamble, Norm takes off Suzi's shirt. You can almost feel the temperature in the room start to rise...
...pivotal question is whether reporters' personal values actually color their stories. Although it seems self-evident that they do, some scholars, such as political scientist Michael Genovese of Loyola Marymount University, contend that there is no clear proof of it. ABC's Brit Hume says his avowed conservatism never intrudes on his work: "It's not hard to keep bias out; you just have to be conscious of it. Most reporters are in denial." Some journalists go to great lengths to appear neutral. Executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. of the Washington Post abstains from voting and urges his staff, especially...
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