Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freedom of the press, like any other freedom, can be dangerous. But Thomas Jefferson, who suffered at the hands of journalists as much as any contemporary politician, insisted that protecting the press at its worst was an essential part of having the press be free. Said Jefferson: "It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press . . . I shall protect them in the right of lying and calumniating." Moreover, the press, however forceful, has no power to indict or impeach, no power beyond what is granted by its audience...
...Nellie Ely, perhaps the most celebrated turn-of-the-century journalist, got herself imprisoned in order to expose jail conditions for the New York World; Feminist Gloria Steinem became a Playboy Bunny to research a 1963 report for Show magazine...
Remembering her undergraduate days at Harvard, Nina Bernstein '70 recalls how determined she was "not to become a journalist...
...years later, married to a University of Wisconsin professor, and with two young children (aged four and seven). Bernstein has returned to Harvard with a perspective altogether different from her undergraduate days. Now she relishes the role of a journalist, though she sees limitations in the profession...
DIED. Leonard Wibberly, 68, witty Irish journalist and author of more than 100 books, including the 1955 political satire The Mouse That Roared (the basis of the 1959 Peter Sellers movie), in which a tiny European nation invades the U.S., anticipating defeat and generous postwar American aid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. In explaining his remarkable prolificacy, Wibberly said, "I couldn't reasonably recommend myself for employment to any company seriously in business, and so I have to write books...