Word: columnist
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...rising clangor of prelate protests and pronouncements has caused consternation inside and outside the church. Some are critical of tactics. Columnist William F. Buckley sympathizes with his church's bishops on abortion but thinks they made a serious mistake in embracing one particular bill. There are disputes over the seemliness of clerical protest vigils and sit-ins. "Disgusting," says Attorney Ed ward Riordan, a parishioner in Worcester, Mass. "They will change no minds by picketing or being arrested." When Arch bishop Hunthausen termed Seattle's new nuclear-submarine base an "American Auschwitz," Navy Secretary John Lehman, moral...
Former Nieman Fellow Anthony Lewis, a New York Times columnist, wrote earlier this year of Lyons. "In an age of image-making and exploitation, he stands for old-fashioned decency...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During...
When New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis went to Hanoi in the early 1970s, a barrage of American bombs greeted his arrival. Lewis took refuge in the Swedish embassy at the invitation of Ambassador Jean-Christopher Oberg. As the sound of explosions filled the air with Lewis wondering why he had left the relative peace of Cambridge, the story has it that Oberg nonchalantly went about his normal activities. In his mid-thirties at the time, the Swedish diplomat was already a veteran of tumultuous Southeast Asia...
...issue of a liberal media has cropped up often in recent months because, it appears, of the weekly's growing distrust of the news coverage of the El Salvador war: Columnist Cliff Kincaid drawn an interesting parallel. "In terms of inflammatory media coverage and the fact that outside communist powers are trying to impose a Marxist- Leninist dictatorship on an independent nation, El Salvador is another Vietnam...