Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what seemed at the time to be a significant scoop, the Wall Street Journal last Aug. 25 carried a story that began, "The U.S. and Libya are on a collision course again, and the Reagan Administration is preparing to teach the mercurial Libyan leader another lesson." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes described the report as "unauthorized but highly authoritative." That was enough to send U.S. news organizations scrambling after a yarn that promised to involve terrorist plots and possible U.S. retaliation...
Misleading Gaddafi was one thing, but what troubled Washington's press corps was the idea that it had been duped as well. Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine stood by the basic thrust of his paper's story: that the U.S. believed Libya had resumed sponsoring terrorist acts, and was exploring ways of deterring Gaddafi. But Pearlstine "deplored" the Administration's "attempt to mislead the Journal and its readers" about the "likelihood of employing some of these options." A New York Times editorial summarized the reasons for the journalistic outrage: "All media, all Americans, are vulnerable because they must...
...begin your pre-interview research in the OCS library. Useful directories include Standard [ Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and Dun and Bradstreet's Reference Book of Corporate Managements. We also get Business Week, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. We also have a collection of the annual reports of recruiting companies...
...nation's most respected newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post ran extensive coverage in late August and early September, leading to a mild frenzy over the possibility of further U.S. agression against Libya. On August 25, the Journal featured a front page story that detailed renewed U.S. military maneuvers geared toward a possible second strike against Khaddafy. The Post featured a series of articles reporting that the U.S. had strong evidence that Khaddafy was again planning terrorist activities...
...that "Nowhere exists a center dedicated to expolring these powerful interactions [between government and the press]" and the new center's latest recruit. The article ignored most of the sharp and informative dialogue between Martin Linsky (author, journalist and politician) Al Hunt (Washington Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal) and Richard E. Neustadt (Littauer Professor of Public Administration). A high price for Harvard egocentrism...