Word: chummier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first illusion is the supposed novelty of the threat. The press has been chummier with past administrators; some bureaucracies have been freer with information. But pressure on journalists to hold off on criticism or to stick to already public sources of information has always existed. The panic is misleading because the government's ability to wiretap, to classify documents over-zealously, and to regulate the electronic media through licensing investigations pose more immediate threats to the public's access to information. No one is advocating outright censorship or the licensing of newspapers. The pressures confronting the press are less direct...
Meanwhile, Heather says she's "not scared so much as just nervous. After the first couple of weeks," Heather predicts, "it will settle down into a much chummier situation and they won't pay any particular attention...