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Indeed it is. Around the country, TIME correspondents listened to passionate arguments by people on both sides of the insurance crisis. Recalls Chicago Correspondent Barbara Dolan: "There were emotional interviews with people who claimed to suffer horrible damages from negligence and equally emotional sessions with insurers who thought that they were being driven out of business by Americans' greed." In the course of her reporting, Washington Correspondent Anne Constable was similarly struck by the human and legal dimensions of the liability-insurance problem. Says she: "Amid all the tangled issues that lawmakers are sorting through, there are some real flesh...
Meghan M. Dolan...
...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...