Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other driver yells back over the incessant barking of his bird dog, "I can't get over any more...
...Well, we're in a hell of a shape if you can't get over any more," Malone replies, " 'cause I surely...
Most journalists occasionally encounter what might be called the Insider's Lament. Anywhere non-newsies can corner them, someone carps along this line: "Dammit, on subjects I'm personally involved in, you guys often get it wrong." The critic usually adds that if he had been consulted, all would have been right. How a journalist responds to this generic complaint depends partly on his tact and hubris quotients. Insiders with their own strong views, after all, tend to cavil about competing ideas and stories they consider less than comprehensive. But when I run into the I.L. these days, I find...
Explaining this sympathy requires one of those shoe-on-the-other-foot tales. Perhaps dog-bites-dog is a better label. Like many Washington-based agents for large news organizations, I am mentioned in other publications now and then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps with the powerful; we serve as filler for the growing number of gossip columns. All this is, in principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal...
...quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign and laudatory. (These will be suitably framed and hung on my office wall as soon as time permits.) But there are enough unalloyed clinkers in this little collection to raise disturbing questions. If Washingtonian didn't get my pay right, how many other numbers in that story were wrong? If the New York Times -- ostensibly the newspaper of record -- adopts a dubious item from a gossip column, how many other colorful anecdotes are published without being checked for accuracy...