Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen as a thing of Communist propaganda. They talk about peace all the time, and no one believes them." When the country's leading pacifist, Ulla Gyllenberg, tried to encourage Finns to place lighted candles in their windows as a pacifist gesture, the project fizzled. Explained a Finnish journalist: "We only put candles in our windows for one thing, to demonstrate our independence from Russia on Independence Day" (Dec. 6; for a century ending in 1917 Finland was a grand duchy of imperial Russia...
...leaders of a $25 million drug ring. Washington Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, who joined the Miami staff to report on the billions in narcotics money washing over South Florida, talked with young men just back from high-speed runs in souped-up boats loaded with marijuana and cocaine. "The journalist's first reaction to this kind of story," says McWhirter, "is always to question whether things are really as bad as they sound. The answer in Miami's case is unequivocally yes. An eruption of money and menace is permanently changing the area and its character...
...stupid enough to say things like that with my name attached to it?" Greider was incredulous: "Nowhere in our conversations did he ever say a word about 'This is all off the record,' or 'You're not going to quote me, right?' " The journalist noted that the interviews had been taped and that Stockman had posed for an Atlantic photographer last month. Stockman soon softened his objections to the piece, explaining that there had been a "misunderstanding" but "not an act of bad faith" on either side...
...single out Bob Balaban as the Government's chief aggressor and Wilford Brimley as its belated voice of conscience), and directed by Sidney Pollack with a sort of crisp but unassuming professionalism that is rarer than it ought to be. Perhaps best of all, the script, by sometime Journalist Kurt Luedtke, who was once part of a Pulitzer-winning investigative team on the Detroit Free Press, has a marvelously entertaining intricacy, briskly and believably building, half-inch by half-inch, Michael's outrage over and Megan's entrapment in the plot to get him. When, finally, Michael...
...morality. And it is the presence of this latter quality that finally distinguishes it. It is not a blanket condemnation of investigative reporting. It simply says that unspeakable people can use the conventions of unnamed sources and unattributed quotes for ulterior motives, can twist them to make the journalist who thinks he is serving the public good actually serve private (or governmental) ends that are no good. Perhaps most important of all, the picture reminds us that many public actions are motivated by innocent private needs that may only look suspicious, which people are entitled to keep to themselves...