Word: herald
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tornillo v. Miami Herald [April 29]: I am amazed that the basic right to reply in case of offensive or inaccurate newspaper reports is being questioned in the U.S. In Colombia, a 1944 law gives all citizens (not only political candidates) the right to have a reply published within three days. If the paper does not comply, the citizen may resort to a special judicial procedure in which the judge decides in 48 hours...
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD...
...then-previous positions and wrote, in sorrow and in anger, editorials calling for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. In a column published by all of the Hearst newspapers, Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. said that the President "seems to have a moral blind spot." The Omaha World-Herald saw him "as a man incapable of providing the moral leadership which the United States is entitled to expect from its President." The Chicago Tribune deplored his "lack of concern for high principles" and "lack of commitment to the high ideals of public office." (See box page...
Even more startling was the apostasy of the Omaha World-Herald, a highly conservative paper whose support for Nixon was evident for years in its news columns as well as on its editorial page. Those views reflected the thinking not only of its owner Peter Kiewit, a construction multimillionaire and Nixon contributor, but also of the people of the state that it blankets. Nixon got his best voter percentages in Nebraska in 1960 and 1968, and only a few other states did better for him in 1972. Yet the World-Herald concluded last week that Nixon should resign. A remarkable...
...Maine, the jointly owned Portland Express and Press Herald swiveled around 180° from their previous support and called for impeachment. The small Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville declared it was impossible to read the transcripts "without feeling like an embarrassed and unwitting voyeur...