Word: concerns
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...flies back, they all fly back." That view of journalism, however unfair, is widely held even among journalists. It has become commonplace self-criticism that news organizations tend to converge on a social trend, stir up alarm, then lose interest in unison and move on to some other concern. Last week a debate heated up about whether the media have collectively hyped the nation's drug problem, especially the threat posed by crack, a potent form of cocaine. At the forefront was an unlikely critic of media warnings about illegal narcotics: the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration...
...critics of how the press has covered drug abuse would deny it is a significant problem. The debate is about matters of proportion and the proprieties of extensive, simultaneous media attention to an issue. Some journalists believe they are just responding to public concern. Says NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw: "The drug story reached critical mass. It kept building up and up in almost volcanic fashion. My own guess is that the population of users is much larger than the DEA is led to believe." Yet the debate caused some news executives to ponder whether they were having unintended impact. Acknowledged...
Although such criticism has been directed at Bozzotto since he was elected the union's president in 1981, the workers said their concern has heightened along with the boldness of Bozzotto's activism...
Most Massachusetts residents are pro-choice; most Catholics in the state are pro-choice. However, most choice supporters do not vote. Low turn-out and confusion over the wording of the referendum is cause for concern for those who are pro-choice. The anti-choice contingent is well funded, vocal and sure to turn up at the polls. As long as the outcome of the vote on November 4 remains in doubt, so does the reproductive freedom of all women in this state...
...fact, W & M's greatest test today may come not from the Crimson but from its schedule-makers, who gave the Tribe last week off. "My number one concern is that we've been off for a week," Tribe Coach Jimmye Laycock says. "We had some really good momentum going before then...