Word: dishonestly
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Peter Shapiro's article, "Strikers from '69," (The Crimson, Fri. April 19) is a thoroughly dishonest attempt to increase student cynicism, and the part about me, called "We," (?!) is icing on the cake. Having seen other, equally sincere-seeming reporters lie through their teeth in print, I was willing to talk to Shapiro only because he promised I could check the accuracy of quotes before press time. The fact that Shapiro broke his promise is understandable. If he'd removed all the out-of-context quotes (not to mention the even more numerous invented ones!) there would have been nothing...
...They] unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other, to commit offenses against the United States ... [They] would corruptly influence, obstruct and impede ... the due administration of justice ... and by deceit, craft, trickery and dishonest means, defraud the United States...
Paul Poorman, managing editor of the Detroit News, tells Wallace that it is "dishonest" for reporters to accept favors, although he also admits receiving a press discount on the purchase of a car three years ago. Poorman has since chaired a study on junketing for the Associated Press Managing Editors, and forbidden News staffers to accept any gratuities at all, but he sees no quick reform: "The whole issue is greeted with tightly controlled apathy on the part of many newspapermen...
...other hand, the purpose of a woman's group is only "rapping," getting together with other women who "understand the problem" and talking about becoming auto mechanics, the group is less than dysfunctional, it is dishonest...
...Louis Globe-Democrat admitted its "disappointment that Agnew has been dishonest in more than his tax reports. He attempted to deceive the American public with his protestations of innocence and his insistence that he would not resign ... Most of the 'damn lies' about Agnew seemed to have been told...