Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan plays Walter Burns, the tough managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, and Bert Convy plays Hildy Johnson, his top reporter, in this revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the 1920s. The play has a cornball period flavor that adds to the enjoyment...
...suggest an entire city in riot. Similarly, during the Newark riots of 1967, TV reporters and their audience were duped into believing that a church assistant was a minister and prominent black spokesman. Hundreds of charges of distortion were brought against the networks for their coverage of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, but a Federal Communications Commission investigation found "no substantial basis" for them. If the influence of TV were as irresistible as Agnew claims, and if TV reporting of Chicago was so prejudiced, why did a majority of Americans nevertheless support Mayor Richard Daley and his police? Still...
...JUST isn't intellectually fashionable to dismiss student radicalism as part of an international Communist conspiracy. But psychiatrists like the University of Chicago's Bruno Beuclhcim have hit upon a more sophisticated method of diverting attention from racial criticism of American society. Like the right-wing paranoids, they do this by assuming that radicals can't really be all that unhappy with society-that there must be something else behind their protests. To these psychiatrists, that something can be found in Freudian psychological theories...
...strange, looking back on it, that the Washington cops should seem different to me from other cops. The night before the Saturday march I was gassed seven times in Dupont Circle, and I had two more encounters with the green stuff later Saturday afternoon. I had been gassed in Chicago; there I hated the cops with every ounce of passion I could muster. I still...
...awed. They had a sense that even though they had the guns. the gas, and the government, they didn't have all the power. In the face of so many people the cops knew that they simply couldn't wield their mechanical powers with the arrogance that characterized the Chicago pigs...