Word: journalistic
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...opinions. Moreover, it appears that she is opposed to the way the Council performs its duties and that she considers the Council to have been rendered ineffective by procedural arguments. As an undergraduate, an occasional guest at meetings of the Council and its Administrative Committee, and especially as a journalist, she has a right to express those opinions. But she must state them in an area of the newspaper clearly set aside for subjective arguments, preferably the Editorial or Opinion pages. It is both intellectually and journalistically dishonest, as well as unfair to the reader, for her to have accorded...
Some members of the Spartacus Youth League tend to be avowed Communists. I am an American and a registered Democrat, so this is an unsettling fact. They also tend to write with a lot of exclamation points and use inflammatory phrases. I am an aspiring journalist, so this style of writing seems distasteful. Talking with one as he tried to sell me Young Spatacus, for example, I had to point out that the phrase "white-hooded Ku Klux Klan scum" was too strong a tone to take; it was also redundant...
Written by Journalist Don Kowet, the book is a critical analysis of a January 1982 CBS Reports show, reported by Correspondent Mike Wallace and Producer George Crile. The program accused General Westmoreland, the commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, of participating in a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in order to create the impression that the U.S. was winning the war. Kowet first wrote about the documentary in a 1982 article he co-authored for TV Guide with Reporter Sally Bedell Smith (now at the New York Times). The article...
...Houston Symphony Olympics, a cacophonous assembly of nine celebrity guest conductors who showed up last week for a publicity-stunt contest that generated more than 1,500 new subscribers for the symphony season. All conducted themselves admirably-and the suffering orchestra less well. In the end, local TV Journalist Marvin Zindler copped the gold with his rendition of the "William Tell"Overture. Former N.B. A. Star Calvin Murphy successfully shot for the silver with Sweet Georgia Brown, and Space Shuttle Pilot Engle blasted his way to the bronze with the theme from Star Wars. As for the symphony players, Engle...
...ferocious pace, running an electoral marathon at sprinters' speeds. It shows. The survivors often look drawn and ashen, and all have made blunders because of fatigue. Indeed, the intensity of this year's primary rigors, physical and emotional, may be unprecedented. Says one drained journalist, a veteran who is trooping after Jackson: "There has never been anything like this. Never...