Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute over Grenada seemed to uncork a pent-up public hostility. It reinforced a perception that journalists regard themselves as utterly detached from, and perhaps even hostile to, the Government of their country. Another factor in provoking distrust is the suspicion that journalists care little about accuracy. When the Washington Post, New York Times and New York Daily News all discovered, during 1981 arid 1982, that they had printed stories that reporters had embellished or invented, much of the public took these extreme cases as typical of journalism and expressed delight that major news organizations had been humiliated...
...That turnabout last month prompted the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 83,650) to attack the city's news organs, including itself; it placed special blame on the dominant daily Globe (circ. 515,000). Said Phoenix Publisher Stephen Mindich: "It is a clear example of irresponsibility, and it creates distrust among the public." Globe Editor Winship replies, "It was an important, live story. We were evenhanded then, and we are re-examining...
...than on their fascinating social energies--the excommunications and other rites. The principal weapon of their revolution, he says, was scandal; this is how the bourgeois revolts against the bourgeois. The Surrealist attack "on the notion of work, that cornerstone of bourgeois civilization, as something sacrosanct," and the Surrealist distrust of the rational may lie behind Bunuel's refusal to evaluate the Surrealist's work...
Ferre supporters made no bones about trying to exploit black distrust of Cubans. Black Radio Announcer Les Brown urged his WEDR listeners to form "a bolt of black thunder" at the polls. He had a taunt for any Cubans who tuned in: "You stole our jobs and you're not going to steal our city." The most dramatic display of raw enmity came when City Commissioner Joe Carollo went on TV to endorse Ferre and abruptly changed his mind, charging a visibly stunned Ferre with running a "racist campaign of hate...
Given this proclivity of filmmakers, the thought of a movie today about revolution in the Third World can inspire distrust. Not that revolutionaries are inherently wrong-headed or their cause unjust. Political movies, hewing as they usually do to the most simplistic line, tend to sway only the true believers and leave the skeptical dead-set in their beliefs. This is why Under Fire, the latest of this genre, a film about the Nicaraguan revolution, has to be approached with skepticism...