Word: elitist
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Neither a discriminatory, nor a universal privilege seem to be acceptable policies: the first has dangerous elitist implications, the second costs too much in terms of the efficacy of the courts. Justice White, who poses this dilemna, decided that no type of journalist's privilege was justified. But the loss of information which his Caldwell decision imposed on the public compels us to look for a solution to the dilemna, a solution which avoids both discriminatory and blanket grants of immunity from testimony...
Neither of these solutions is perfect as expressed, but at least they represent an alternative to a privilege based on a discriminatory definition of journalist and an elitist notion of the professional reporter's role. White's arguments should be taken seriously, but to date they have been passed off in the press as just more reactionary claptrap from the Nixon Court. Newspapers have been content to avoid the issue of elitism, preferring to print long and sincere articles pleading "Save the First Amendment" and mobilizing their libbies in the legislatures behind the passage of "shield" laws...
...sometimes petty one. He retaliated against the long-critical Washington Post by granting an exclusive interview to its rival, the Star-News, and the Post's society reporter has been banned from covering White House social functions. Nixon's telecommunications director, Clay Whitehead, has attacked the "elitist gossip" in network news and proposed that local stations be held accountable at license-renewal time for any unbalanced news programming. Suddenly, three groups of Republican businessmen, some with close ties to the Administration, have challenged the licenses of two Washington Post-owned TV stations in Florida...
...International Style. As the last "rational" abstract mode of building, it has been much attacked as unresponsive to human needs. The architect as master planner, exerting in his structures a pressure, both functional and ethical, on the messy, changing lives of their inhabitants, now seems to some critics an elitist figure, and obsolete as well. And certainly much of classical modern architecture as descended from Gropius and Mies van der Rohe was conceived in a spirit of lofty indifference to social patterns...
...narrowing function of the churches to the point of non-existence. Of course, universities "are socially created and serve social purposes," but to serve more slavishly the purpose of a decaying society spiritual impotence and institutional extinction. Harvard's mode of instruction may be outdated; its sexist and elitist values are outdated. The answer is to develop a broader undergraduate experience more is keeping with the complexity and instability of American life, not a more specialized experience within a narrow by defined academic realm...