Word: greenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carl Greenberg-he's the only reporter on the [Los Angeles] Times that fits this thing, who wrote every word I said. He wrote it fairly. He wrote it objectively. Carl, despite whatever feelings he had, felt that he had an obligation to report the facts as he saw them...
Thus, in his bitter political swan song, California's defeated Republican candidate for Governor lifted to national attention a hitherto obscure political reporter for the Los Angeles Times. No man desired the distinction less. For all his 35 years at the game, Carl Greenberg, 54, has aspired to be no more than he is: a competent newsman, working diligently at his craft. Nixon's accolade left him in the uncomfortable position of a man who has, for no good reason, been irreparably separated from his peers. "I feel like calling the Times and telling them to mail...
...Business Judging. Why Nixon did not also disparage Carl Greenberg is perhaps partly explained by Greenberg's approach to political reporting. "He covers politics," says a colleague, "as if it were some sort of crime." Greenberg was, in fact, a police reporter before turning to political coverage, and on the precinct beat he learned a valuable lesson: that a police reporter, like a cop, has no business playing judge. He brought this conviction to the political scene, first for Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner and since 1961 for the Times. "I feel," says Greenberg, "that even...
...Greenberg dutifully reported the derisive sneer of "carpetbagger" that Nixon directed at President Kennedy's invasion of California last March. When Nixon disavowed his own words, Greenberg pinned them down in a dispassionate story observing that the candidate had used the epithet not only once, but three times...
...Times assigned two men to cover the gubernatorial campaign-Greenberg and the paper's other political reporter, Richard Bergholz, 45. The two alternated on the trail of Nixon and incumbent Governor Pat Brown. Greenberg's reporting was so neutral that he was met with equal cordiality by both camps...