Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COVER: Mr. Consensus -- how George Bush performs as President...
...reporter who takes part in a pro-choice march is reprimanded by her editors. Another woman, a food critic, is upset because her employer's policy against political activism all but prohibits her from publicly expressing her views on abortion -- an issue that she will probably never have to cover. Across the country, the heating up of the abortion issue in recent months has confronted reporters with an acute professional dilemma: How can they personally take a public stand on a question they feel strongly about without seeming to compromise the objectivity of the publication for which they work...
...participate in a movement that is far afield from their beats," says assistant managing editor Warren Hoge. "But I sure wish they wouldn't." The Post takes a more hard-line position: its reporters are discouraged from engaging in any political activities, including community affairs, regardless of what they cover. Many Post editorial employees, however, were unaware of this long-standing policy until the controversy erupted over the Washington march last spring. Says managing editor Leonard Downie Jr.: "Some found it kind of shocking that they are called on not to exercise some of their personal rights so that...
...equally troubling -- and more elusive -- issue is whether journalists can cover stories in which they begin with strong personal convictions. A. Kent MacDougall, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, marched against the Viet Nam War while working on the staff of the Wall Street Journal. Defending his activities in a 1970 Journal op-ed piece, MacDougall wrote, "A well-trained reporter with pride in his craft won't allow his beliefs to distort his stories, any more than a Republican surgeon will botch an appendectomy on a Democrat...
Water is not the director's friend. Actors immersed in it do not have many opportunities for sharp repartee. It provides no cover for the villain to sneak up on the hero. It turns action sequences into exercises in slow motion. It is costly to work in and obscures expensive and imaginative special-effects work...