Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK--1-4. SEASON TO DATE--16-11..593. A journalist's nightmare--I've lost my lead...
...solution. according to Kenneth O. Hartnett, a veteran Boston journalist and a Fellow at the Institute of Politics, is "a certain shorthand the media uses" to divine the action...
...countless "candidates" forums" and campaign stops, the press picks out events in a narrative. A succession of events, controversies and polls narrow the focus of a crowded race. It may be artificial, but it's manna to the journalist who can't remember if he last talked to Flynnigan of Dikearney. Finnegan was the cagey. Irish pol. Flynn, the liberal "goo-goo". King, the leftist. Incidents become symbolic stories that don't connect," not proven patterns but isolated signals between the lines. Thus Finnegan took his desk home from his School Board office: read. he's a plunderer. Larry DiCara...
DIED. Wilfred Burchett, 72, Australian journalist whose pro-Communist sympathies undercut the credibility of his many newspaper dispatches and books written behind the Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia, including wartime reports from North Korea and later North Viet Nam; of complications from a liver ailment; in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he had lived for the past year...
DIED. Roscoe Drummond, 81, journalist and author who for half a century chronicled power and politics in Washington; in a nursing home in Princeton, N.J. Starting out in 1924 as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, the witty, diminutive (under 5 ft.) Drummond rose to executive editor and during the 1940s ran the paper's Washington bureau. There he covered eleven U.S. Presidents, largely in his thrice-weekly "State of the Nation" column, which was syndicated in 150 newspapers after he joined the New York Herald Tribune...