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...accused WNBC-TV Investigative Reporter Liz Trotta of 18 specific "hatchet jobs." Some of Mobil's contentions were minor. At one point, for instance, Trotta asked: "If there's a surplus of oil, then why hasn't the price of gasoline gone down?" Mobil's complaint was, in part, that the price has gone down in recent months by about 20 a gallon. But other Mobil points about inaccurate or loaded reporting were sharper. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fueling the Argument | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...columns and op-ed pages to accommodate outside voices; broadcast equivalents are harder to find. The FCC encourages local stations to let viewers and listeners answer station editorials, but not news and documentary programs. In a Mobil ad that appeared opposite newspaper editorial pages the same day as the "hatchet job" blast, the company urged consideration of a "voluntary mechanism" for reply that would be "developed by the press [and] which would promote free and robust debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fueling the Argument | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...years ago, Harvard politicos would have hemmed and hawed and clawed at the turf on learning that Fred V. Malek, a reputed former hatchet man for the Nixon White House, was arriving in Cambridge to give an Institute of Politics seminar. Malek served from 1970 through 1972 as an aide to Nixon in charge of personnel management and later moved on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) as deputy director after the Watergate break-in. During this time he organized and ran the Nixon "responsiveness program," which reputedly worked through Federal departments to dole out White House...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Mr. Malek Comes to Harvard | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

...then, is Fred V. Malek? Was he indeed a hatchet man under H.R. Haldeman who devised schemes to illegally circumvent the Civil Service and other federal departments in rewarding Nixon's friends and punishing his enemies. Did he con the Ervin Committee when he denied having authorized a White House grantmanship proposal drawn up by his staff, which he himself admitted would have proved illegal if implemented? Let's call this dossier number one on Fred Malek...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Mr. Malek Comes to Harvard | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

...highly regarded U.S. newspaper. It was there that he switched from news to humor and created his famed Mr. Arbuthnot, whose straight-faced conversation consisted of flawlessly crafted strings of clichés. ("When I'm not playing second fiddle, I'm off to Newcastle with coals, or burying the hatchet.") When the World died in 1931, Sullivan became a fixture at The New Yorker, to which he contributed from 1932 to 1974 an unfailingly cheery, name-dropping Christmas greeting in verse. Buring the 1920s, '30s and '40s, the natty, expansively girthed Sullivan was a member of the Algonquin Round Table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1976 | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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