Word: circe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been the five-hour show, but rather the largely nonviolent arrest of about 250 left-wing demonstrators by U.S. military police. For the protesters, who sought to publicize their opposition to scheduled European deployment of U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles, the day was a triumph. The Frankfurter Rundschau (circ. 200,000) contended, "American soldiers on German soil were randomly beating, arresting and handcuffing demonstrators like criminals." The influential newsweekly Der Spiegel (circ. 970,000) said, "Soldiers, armed with bats and grim expressions, took the demonstrators, who did not put up any resistance, and threw them like cargo into army...
...movement certainly represents a minority in the Federal Republic, and polls show that the German public is as uneasy about Soviet militarism as it is about missile deployment. But to a number of trend-setting and leftist-oriented journals, including the Frankfurter Rundschau, Spiegel and the picture weekly Stern (circ. 1.6 million), the missile antis are the only side worthy of full coverage. Beyond that, Stern and other periodicals repeatedly accuse the Reagan Administration of insincerity in its arms-reduction talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, and of a readiness to use Europe as a battlefield in a limited...
...just as partisan in news stories as in editorials. In contrast to American newspapers, which may accompany a straight news story with an interpretive sidebar, West German journals often gloss over the news and publish the analysis. The conservative Kohl has powerful allies: the nationally distributed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (circ. 332,000), probably the country's most influential daily and all but certainly its weightiest; Die Welt (circ. 210,000), the intellectual flagship of Press Lord Axel Springer's chain, and perhaps the most ardently pro-American, pro-Israeli and anti-Soviet publication in West Germany; Springer...
...press's "spotty record" for fairness and accuracy, New England Business magazine lamented in a recent editorial that "somewhere in the deep past, the journalistic trade decided that it was unprofessional" to show an article in advance to its principal source. Founded in 1952, New England Business (circ. 45,000) is now proudly violating that rule, though " sometimes this leads to difficult conversations." It finds businessmen grateful, but the practice is not a total guarantee of accuracy: "One company reviewed a complete story in which its own name was slightly misspelled and missed the error." The idea...
...Japanese newspaper field includes four other giants: Asahi Shimbun (circ. 12.1 million), which is Yomiuri's longtime rival; Mainichi (circ. 6.9 million); Sankei (circ. 3.1 million); and the business-oriented Nihon Keizai, or "Nikkei" (circ. 3 million). Though the 119 million Japanese are known as a TV-obsessed society, they buy 68 million copies of 125 daily newspapers, making them perhaps the world's most devoted newspaper readers...