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Meghan M. Dolan...
...Today show startled and angered a lot of journalists several weeks ago when it let Terry Dolan, the right-wing fund raiser, use NBC's facilities, cameras and crews to put on his version of a news story. Dolan heads the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Had NBC capitulated to right-wing pressure? No, insists Steve Friedman, Today's executive producer, the idea was all his own. Dolan considers all network news liberal, bad and alike. So Today staged a match-off: his version vs. NBC's of the same story. The verdict has to be that both were...
...original 2½-minute profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, based largely on the new Soviet leader's euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee hearings can listen stonily to most...
After Healey's picture was shown, Dolan called him "a longtime apologist for the Soviet Union, who himself was a member of the Communist Party. I think that would have been significant to point out in the story." This nasty McCarthyite innuendo went unchallenged on Today. The "significant" thing that Dolan did not say about Healey is that as Defense Minister from 1964 to 1970 he earned the enmity of the British Left as a wholehearted supporter of the Western alliance. This is a foretaste of what unbalanced journalism might be like...
...left is without enough numbers, money or influence to be an effective pressure group. The influential spectrum now moves from liberals to Establishment conservatives ("moderates") to right-wingers, who have the most money, the most articulate and aggressive spokesmen and the most effective computerized mailing lists, like Dolan...