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...medium is not the message. It never has been, in the competitive and lucrative American media. The New Hampshire returns embarrassed the national press more than any other recent event. After predicting the winner incorrectly, the networks received insult added to injury through Hart's record-breaking margin. It's simply impossible to conjecture that the networks did anything other than report the facts as they saw them; any other approach would be vulnerable to ruthless exposure by a competitor. And any media organization, however small, which had correctly predicted the return would have made the election scoop...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Second Guessing | 3/7/1984 | See Source »

...time?" has been the query of cross-country phone-ins for the past year. But the enigmatic Trudeau remained elusive to the end, waiting for the day of leap year to toy with Canadian mind and media. Adding insult to insult, he announced his decision by letter and bypassed the press he so disdains...

Author: By Nicholas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Farewell Pierre | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...CHRISTOPHER J. Dodd (D-Conn.) called it "the Great Engine War." "A great victory for Massachusetts, for the Air Force, and for the American taxpayer," countered Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). "An insult to Pratt and Whitney, its employees, and the American taxpayer" was the way Rep. Barbara Kennelly (D-Conn.) phrased...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Roll Out the Barrel | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...affirmative action is the indignity of it; it's demeaning character and the underhandedness of the way it's applied. I can illustrate that point: it's impossible for affirmative action appointments to be announced in public because to speak of someone as an affirmative action appointment is to insult that person by implying, or even saying that that appointment would not have been made on the basis of merit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...done anything worthwhile in three years, there was silence except for a flip answer from Mondale: "I think one of the fine things they did was to get rid of James Watt." That silence was disingenuous, since Reagan obviously has done a few worthy things. It was also an insult to the intelligence of 54% of the American people who, according to George Gallup, approve of Reagan's leadership in some way. But the President has too often led the political charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Politics as Gong Show | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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