Word: gitlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This whole thing is horrible," says Todd Gitlin, a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University. "I'm filled with disgust with what has become of this country, and I hold the media crucially responsible. What has happened is that in the glee, sometimes even the guilty glee, of enthusiasm for this story, the press has sent a very clear signal to the public that it lives in a different world than the world of a self-governing democracy...
...Gitlin and other journalism scholars are hard-pressed to remember any other story that has triggered such furor. It has forced some healthy choices, a necessary filtering reaction to the information age: so much is available around the clock that viewers and readers become editors themselves, making judgments not about what they can find out but about what they want to know. "The general discourse had been getting cruder and cruder," observes Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners. "Privacy and discretion had almost disappeared from the general public usage before the scandal. Now that the salacious nosiness has been carried...
...TODD GITLIN Professor of sociology, New York University...
...Paul Gitlin, chair of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, called the decision "extraordinary" because King was not given a hearing first. The board has the right to summarily suspend a doctor's license without a hearing if it believes the doctor is a threat to public safety...
...University," Todd Gitlin '63 said in aninterview for Kirkpatrick Sale's book SDS,"Begins to feel like a cage...