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...Boston Globe, wrote the cover story. Says he: "Most U.S. journalism is good-thorough, instructive, even at times courageous. But when a news organization gets arrogant or careless for just a few moments, the consequences for the individuals it covers can be catastrophic, and the damage to the craft considerable...
...competitive urge among these multiple sources of information leads to excesses, but it also contributes to a self-correcting process. When one news outlet reports a story badly, rival organizations can score a coup as well as honor their craft by setting the record straight. Indeed, most irate critics of bias in the press cite stories from other parts of the press to prove their case. For readers of almost any ideological stripe, the perceived or actual bias of some publication can be offset by the availability of others. In soliciting subscriptions from new readers, the conservative weekly Human Events...
...become journalists and the attitudes they take when pursuing a story. Reporters have sometimes lost sight of the fundamental truth that their job is to provide a service to the community rather than to seek the glamour and glory that now often seem to draw people into the craft. News organizations are trying in a variety of ways to make themselves more self-critical and more accessible to the public and to attune their reporters to asking themselves, "Is this fair?" rather than, "Will this make Page One or top the evening newscast...
...Smithsonian Institution is the repository of national memory. In the celebrated Air and Space Museum, the frail craft that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., hovers near the command module of Apollo 11, which first put man on the moon. In the Museum of American History are the portable desk that Thomas Jefferson designed and then used while writing the Declaration of Independence, the original Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand...
...none brings more impressive credentials to the role than Jessica Tandy. In 1947, she was the first Blanche Dubois; now, at 74, she is playing Williams' first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some of her own old-fashioned wooing. Williams' characters may not be as fragile as Laura's menagerie, but they...