Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaking, of course, of Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell. Those who are familiar with the gentlemen's reputation will no doubt recognize my interest in their eternal torment. Flynt is best known as the fat, wheelchairridden publisher of Hustler, a journal known in the obscure lexicon of the trade as a "magazine for men." "Whose souls will soon lie within Satan's dreaded clasp," the masthead should truthfully read, but no matter...
Last week the court came close, upholding the mail- and wire-fraud conviction of R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who was paid by stockbrokers to leak information about upcoming stories on particular companies. The court also let stand his conviction on a securities-law violation. Investigators had feared that an adverse decision in the Winans case could cripple their efforts to go after big-time insider traders like Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine. The high court's action, said Gary Lynch, head of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, "is tremendous news...
...relevance test for a number of reasons, including his claim to high idealism. But the disclosures were so heavy in volume and derisive in tone that they became the defining facts about a candidate who was still little known to most voters. By contrast, when the Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Robertsons married ten weeks before their son was born, the information was contained in two sentences midway through a long profile, where it belonged. Then the Washington Post, which had done a detailed story pointing out other discrepancies in Robertson's bio, used that new fact...
...short, a close call. But the Journal article warns that the near disaster on the day after the dizzying crash "raises the specter that such a crisis could strike again." Perhaps most worrisome of all is that the stock market shot down on that Monday and up again on Tuesday without any compelling political or economic event serving as the trigger. Should a war, assassination or other crisis of serious proportions strike, no one really knows just what it might do to the world's shaky markets...
...induce heart attacks, plays a role in 85% of America's 550,000 annual deaths resulting from coronary heart disease. Ridding the bloodstream of the stuff through exercise and proper diet has become a standard health regimen. Last week, however, in a landmark paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Finnish scientists provided dramatic endorsement for a drug that drastically lowers the incidence of such disease, chiefly by raising the blood levels of a type of cholesterol...