Word: goldwaterism
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"I'll be very interested to read the newspaper accounts," Barry Goldwater told 1,500 county government officials in Washington last week in his first major speech since he was nominated. "I won't say that the papers misquote me," he added, "but I sometimes, wonder where Christianity...
Goldwater's running mate, Bill Miller, echoed the theme. He complained that the press and television had over played the backing given to the Republican candidate by far-right groups and made it look as if "it is the kooks who support Goldwater." The press and television had not...
A Fact of Life. Both Goldwater and Miller were reflecting a long-simmering feeling in professional Republican ranks that the working press is biased against the G.O.P. - a kind of inversion of the old "one-party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers...
The Imprecise Statements. Whatever the personal politics of the working press, Barry Goldwater creates many of his own problems. His statements are often so imprecise that they lead to a wide variety of interpretations and misinterpretations. Seldom has a major political candidate in the U.S. found it so necessary to...
Both the Goldwater camp and the press are now aware of the problem their differences present in coverage of the campaign. Some editors agree with the Chicago Daily News' Larry Fanning, who believes that the result will be "more pressure on newsmen to be sure of their facts." Press...