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...masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Professor," "the Reverend" and "Mammy" (Jeremy Geidt), who are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura. Made up to look like Dr. Fu Manchu and with an accent to match, Alvin Epstein plays this role with hysterical finesse. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah Lil" (Stephanie Cotsirilos). She falls for Bill, and redeeming social values ensue...
...Yurick that blasted U.S. journalism for not accepting the Symbionese Liberation Army on its own terms. Yurick pursued the absurd argument that if the S.L.A. called a kidnaping an "arrest," the press should go along; otherwise, journalists were guilty of Establishment bias. For the current issue, Author Joseph Epstein (Divorced in America) has written an essay called "The Media as Villain." In dis cussing journalism's problems, he casually laid on some heavy indictments...
...media," he said, "flourish under scandal, disaster, tumult in any form they can get it . . ." Further, U.S. journalism virtually alone caused the "death of the civil rights movement." Epstein rapped newsmen for the decline in the quality of presidential campaigns and objected to "those odious Exxon and Mobil...
...Epstein raised some vexed questions, but reduced the answers to stereotypes. He cast "the media" as a monolith instead of the collection of diverse organizations and individuals that is American journalism. In hanging the civil rights movement's troubles on sensation-seeking press coverage, he ignored a host of political, social and economic factors. The piece was a paradigm of the opinionated mush that [More] attacks when it appears elsewhere. To cap the inconsistency, the same issue of [More] carried a full-page Mobil ad of the kind that Epstein deplored...
...DAVID I. EPSTEIN...