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Last week, as so often over these past 20 years, more than 200 reporters, cameramen and technicians crowded into the East Room on an otherwise perfectly lovely night. Eight women wore red dresses to gain a minute advantage in the desperate bid for recognition by the President. Another wore a red-white-and- blue stocking cap set off with blue lipstick. A few male contenders looked suspiciously as if they had blow-dried their hair and patted on a bit of makeup. The U.P.I.'s veteran Helen Thomas blinded them all in a frock with patches of blue, orange, raspberry...
...groomed representative of the Lebanese Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite faction that had in effect hijacked the hostages from their original hijackers, the two brutal gunmen who had seized TWA's Flight 847 and murdered Navy Diver Robert Stethem. The only glitch in this presentation occurred when reporters and cameramen got into a shoving match as they jockeyed for position. Quickly, the Shi'ite guards hustled their prizes from the crowded room in the Beirut airport, waving pistols and cuffing a few reporters for good measure. When the press settled down, the five hostages returned and pronounced themselves healthy...
...danger of unrestrained journalistic zeal was evident at the hostages' press conference. Photographers surged around the prisoners, shutters clicking madly, while other cameramen jumped up on the table for a better angle. Angered by the chaos, an Amal spokesman abruptly ended the proceedings, which only triggered more shouting and shoving. Militiamen pounced on photographers and reporters, smashing cameras and seizing tape recorders. Fifteen minutes later, after the journalists promised to maintain calm, the session was resumed. In another incident, a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek reached the plane by passing himself off as a relative of the hijackers...
...least 40 cameramen and reporters were jammed into the narrow corridor outside the Osaka apartment of Kazuo Nagano, 32. Inside, Nagano, the chief suspect in an alleged fraud that had bilked thousands of Japanese investors of $800 million, waited for what seemed to be his inevitable arrest. Suddenly, two men pushed their way through the crowd and announced to two private security guards, "We've been asked to kill him." When the guards refused to let them inside the apartment, the two men first tried to break open the door; when it did not yield, they smashed a small window...
...that's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite used to sign off his newscasts, implying you were getting it all, the good and the bad. But this can hardly be true when so much of the world is off limits to reporters and cameramen. From these areas the bad news filters out only gradually, and usually without pictorial evidence. The recent commemorations of two past wars prove the point. We relive the painful memories of American soldiers torching a village but see no comparable footage of the North Vietnamese committing atrocities. The result is a distorting imbalance. So much...