Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private Kremlin conference room of Konstantin Chernenko has been firmly off limits to Western journalists since the Soviet President took command of the Communist Party in February. But last week the room's large double doors unexpectedly swung open. Responding to written questions submitted five days earlier by Washington Post Moscow Bureau Chief Dusko Doder, Soviet officials summoned the journalist to the Kremlin on a half-hour's notice. During a 20-min. interview, Chernenko, 73, looking relaxed and ruddy-cheeked, sounded more ready than in the past to accommodate the prospect of new dialogue with...
Aguilar, a former teacher at the University of the Philippines and a journalist, is a prominent Philippine poet and anti-Marcos activist...
Disinformation is the term that intelligence analysts give to falsehoods a country disseminates by duping foreign news media. Such campaigns usually depend on a legitimate journalist's unwitting participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...
...involved in Westmoreland's suit was produced by CBS Reports, not 60 Minutes.) Herbert's case went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979 on a procedural question. Under existing law, a public official had to prove not only that the assertions were false, but that the journalist either knew they were false or acted in reckless disregard of whether they were true. Herbert contended that if he had to prove the state of mind of his accusers, then he was entitled to question them about their notes, conversations and even thoughts. By a 6-to-3 vote...
Seifert made his poetic reputation in the 1920s and 1930s, but he made his living as a journalist. He worked on newspapers even throughout the German Occupation. He wrote patriotic poems, though, and they were widely read. When the Communists took power in 1948, he continued to produce both journalistic writings and verse subtly critical of the new regime, but often simply lyrics about love or spring or his city of Prague. "You cannot say he is a dissident, but just the same he is someone who never compromised," says Kundera. "The moral position of Seifert has always been absolutely...