Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, we thought, the Academy always has flirted with these stabs at social relevance. But lo and behold, this new mood of reflection and self-criticism seemed to be translating into intelligent choices. Jason Robards, for his role as Washington Post managing editor Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men pulled the Best Supporting Actor prize from under the long nose of heart-strings favorite Burgess Meredith (who, we must conclude, kissed away all his chances of redeeming respectability when he played the Penguin in television's "Batman" series...
...love Andy Young," said "Reg" Murphy, publisher and editor of the San Francisco Examiner, "but Young's foot-in-mouth disease is really beginning...
There was also wide agreement that the promise of publicity, especially on TV, helps create terrorist acts. "The press," says Stuart H. Loory, managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, "must start thinking more about the ways people like terrorists are using us. We have become part of the story." It was clear in Washington during the siege that Terrorist Leader Hamaas Abdul Khaalis' motive was publicity for his cause as well as revenge against the Black Muslims...
Said Columbia Law Professor Frank Grad: "It's very dangerous to restrain First Amendment liberties. The chance of occasional excesses is not too heavy a price to pay for assurance of liberty." Said New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill: "We must weigh one value, of a fully informed public, against another, the risk of some madman imitating what he has seen or read. The first enormously outweighs the second...
...believable press, several journalists noted, should be especially obvious to Andrew Young. As a civil rights leader and aide to Martin Luther King Jr., he is aware -as he has acknowledged-that extensive press coverage enabled the black movement to bring its just grievances before the American public. Southern editors vividly recall that in the 1950s and 1960s there was heavy public pressure to limit coverage of black demonstrations on the ground that such publicity stirred up more trouble. Recalls Eugene Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg Times: "A large number of readers wrote to tell newspapers that if they...