Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cincinnati women visiting the White House separately last spring were startled to be pulled out of the tourist line and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Reason: they were radioactive. Three Ohio doctors explained in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine last week that the women had taken a test for heart disease in which each had been injected with a radioisotope before exercising on a treadmill...
...network documentary in six years. NBC has aired more than 400 reports on drug abuse since the beginning of March; ABC two weeks ago highlighted drugs on all its news programs. Cocaine and crack have been front-page news in dailies ranging from city tabloids to the Wall Street Journal, which last week reported abuse was "rife" in rural Oklahoma. Crack has repeatedly reached Page One of the New York Times and Washington Post, and the drug crisis rated two cover stories within three months at Newsweek. The magazine's editor in chief, Richard Smith, wrote in the June...
...What we have done by the sheer quantity of stories is to imply that a very serious problem has become the most pressing domestic crisis," says Greenfield. "We have helped create an atmosphere in which hysterical legislation is more likely to pass." Hodding Carter, host of PBS's Capitol Journal, agrees. "What the media have done is to throw the blood into the water and then look back and say, 'My, my, the sharks are feeding on this blood in Congress,' " said Carter on the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour last week...
North House residents will probably have to sign up to eat at a Thursday dinner featuring Ellen Hume '68, White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and several Neiman fellows. Before the dinner there will be an open symposium with the guests...
...while appealing his conviction to the Supreme Court, Winans, 38, has not been idle. In the dubious tradition of H.R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy and other authors of Watergate fame, Winans has told his story in a new book titled Trading Secrets: Seduction and Scandal at the Wall Street Journal (St. Martin's Press; $17.95). To promote this candid and engrossing tale, the author is on a 13-city tour. Winans is also negotiating to sell film rights to Hollywood Producer Arnold Orgolini, who wants to make a movie "along the lines of All the President's Men." Winans...