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...renders a very good service; I'd like to see more of it. I'm all for advocacy journalism as a counter-influence. I do not believe that it's a substitute for factual, objective journalism...I don't see how it's any substitute at all for that--if you had nothing but advocacy journalism, where would the advocates get the facts with which to advocate? It's a compliment [to conventional journalism] and I'm glad we have it. I think there should be considerable care used by the alternative press to be certain that in advocating they...
This concern, voiced in faculty meetings throughout the Ivy League, rests upon scanty factual foundations. It is true that a larger proportion of undergraduates make "A's" and "B's" today than a generation ago, and a significantly higher number graduate with honors. But nobody has produced convincing evidence that undergraduates in 1976 study less, or know less, than did their predecessors in, say, 1956. If grades are on the whole higher today, it would seem reasonable to attribute the improvement to the better quality of the undergraduates or, less probably, to more effective teaching on the part of their...
...fellow men, however, were more than ever interested in his riches, and the scramble was beginning for the money-or at least part of the action. Producer David Wolper trumpeted that he would make a film about Hughes titled-guess what?- The Billionaire. It will hardly be factual, since he intends to base it on the fake "autobiography" of Hughes that Writer Clifford Irving foisted on LIFE and McGraw-Hill before he was jailed for fraud. Hughes' former chef, Garry Reich, said that he was ready to sell the recipe for the fudge that Howard savored. Meanwhile, the Mexican...
That criticism of the new Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein Watergate book, The Final Days (Simon & Schuster; $10.95), is typical of the reaction of most Nixon associates. By and large: 1) they make no claims that the book contains any substantial factual errors; 2) they protest that the total portrayal is a distortion; 3) they offer criticism with the stipulation that the source of the complaint not be publicly named...
...million libel suit claiming that the newspaper defamed his character and charging that it failed to indicate strongly enough that the interview was fictional. (He later testified that 25 to 30 persons, including his brother, Fire Commissioner Joseph Rizzo, had told him they believed the column was factual...