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Perhaps so. But for the public and its elected representatives, the issue with which Flinn launched her publicity blitz was the one that commandeered the imagination. Citizens who couldn't bridge the ever widening distance between the mores of the civilian world and those of the military, bombarded call-in shows with invocations of the right to keep the government out of the bedroom. In fact, the Air Force, in its treatment of Flinn's transgressions and its prosecution of adultery courts-martial, may be more nuanced than it originally got credit for. But unlike the Army and Navy...
...peasants' cries have reached the castle, though it's questionable whether they've been heard. On a National Public Radio call-in program, a ticked-off citizen of Castine, Maine, (whose downtown P.O. was spared last year after cbs's This Morning took up its cause) chewed out Postmaster General Marvin Runyon: "Doesn't the Postal Service have some kind of obligation not to rip small communities apart?" Runyon, a former auto-company executive, responded with executive generalities concerning aging buildings and population growth, then effectively reversed himself. "It is not our business to be closing down small post offices...
Suggestions for improvements included providing more bus service from the Quad before morning classes, adding service on weekend afternoons, shifting the shuttle van call-in service to hours past 3 a.m. and asking phone operators to be more cordial...
...many major newspapers has reduced the number of correspondents digging up stories around the country and the world. What has exploded is not news, but talk about the news; commentary, not information. Which makes the news explosion both more democratic and more suspect. Everyone from Kathie Lee Gifford to call-in viewers on Larry King Live has a viewpoint, and every viewpoint gets a hearing. Howard Stern may be as influential as Peter Jennings. MSNBC fills its airtime with a corps of interchangeable "contributors" who offer seat-of-the-pants opinions on whatever the big story of the day happens...
LONDON: Home video host and sometime CNN call-in guest O.J. Simpson is taking his case overseas. In what's being proudly billed as his first public appearance since the verdict, Simpson will speak at England's venerable Oxford Union on May 14th. He will give an as yet unspecified speech to the Union and then take questions from students. TIME's Barry Hillenbrand reports that the Oxford Union notes that Richard Nixon also made his first public appearance at the Union after his resignation following the Watergate scandal. The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 and ranks among...