Word: digestable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incensed by a Reader's Digest article suggesting that Senator Edward Kennedy had lied about Chappaquiddick, a volunteer worker in his presidential campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Identifying herself as "a concerned citizen," Larryann C. Willis of Vale, Ore., accused the magazine of making corporate campaign contributions in violation of federal election laws...
...commission found "reason to believe" that the Digest had violated election law by sending out videotapes to promote its February 1980 story. Many journalists and First Amendment scholars were alarmed by the FEC move, seeing it as an ominous Government encroachment on press freedom...
Reader's Digest refused to answer 15 questions from the FEC, claiming protection under the First Amendment and pointing out that news stories were exempted from campaign contribution restrictions. The magazine asked a New York federal district court for a preliminary injunction against the FEC investigation. Argued the Digest: "The fact of being investigated by the United States Government for alleged violation of a statute carrying criminal penalties has a chilling effect all by itself." Such investigations, it added, "can be a very effective form of censorship...
Conservative Digest (circ. 85,000). Published by Richard Viguerie, the New Right's master fund raiser, this monthly calls itself "the magazine for the new majority" and talks tough about "neutralizing liberals" and putting prayer back in politics...
...persona and also avoid another parody-the straw-filled scarecrow wild man the Carter people created. Reporting gave the voters a plausible portrait of a 9-to-5 executive, only passably informed, given to exaggerated remarks but cautious in action, who wants complicated problems reduced to Reader's Digest brevity, then decides about them without heartburn...