Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their clothes wholesale, fewer sportswriters ride free on team planes. Bailey, now the Washington editor of National Public Radio, wrote his critique for the National News Council shortly before that independent watchdog group voted itself out of existence. On other potential conflicts of interest, he is a purist: "No journalist should have any personal involvements in politics or political activity beyond registering and voting; no government work at any level, paid or unpaid." With rules like these on many papers, press behavior in this and other matters is improving. Why, then, are the media mistrusted more than they used...
...previously worked on newspapers. Bailey recalls the "spectacular stumble" of syndicated conservative Columnist George F. Will, who, when criticized for helping coach his friend Ronald Reagan for the 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, said he felt exempt 5 from the rules of neutrality because he was not a "journalist." (About to become a regular commentator on ABC's World News Tonight, Will describes himself as "reformed...
Bureau Chief Harry Kelly, 57, is a veteran U.S. journalist who has been in Israel for most of the past two years. He finds that the most voluble authorities on Israelis are Israelis. "They are willing to drop everything, serve you coffee and try to explain themselves and their country," he says. "That includes kibbutzniks at Negba, who gathered three generations of their members and over cookies and fruit juice told me how it was fighting Egyptians in '48 and how it is now fighting the economy; Author Amos Oz, who interrupted work on his new novel to explain...
...include a rebellion of Sikhs, a tornado in Wisconsin, parents pleading for a healthy heart for their child? Sensibilities, overwhelmed, eventually grow cold; and therein monsters lie. Nobody wants to be part of a civilization that reads the news and does not care about it. Certainly no journalist wants that...
...people cannot rely on the news for facts, however, then journalism has no reason for being. Alastair Reid may have forgotten that the principal reason journalists exist in society is that people have a need to be informed of and comprehend the details of experience. "The right to know and the right to be are one," wrote Wallace Stevens in a poem about Ulysses. The need is basic, biological. In that sense, everyone is a journalist, seeking the knowledge of the times in order to grasp the character of the world, to survive in the world, perhaps to move...