Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spike takes this idea, adds best-seller ingredients, and transposes it to a more timely bipolar conflict--that of the United States and the Soviet Union. The latest ads for The Spike goad the public into paying 13 bucks to read what the "liberal journalist establishment" has almost universally panned. See what those sullied liberal press types are scared of, the ad continues. After all, chances are that those who reviewed the book in the liberal publications are tyomhaya verboura...
Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...
...surprisingly, the journalists are at their best when depicting characters based on authentic figures. Their portrayal of President Billy Connor from Flats, Mississippi, his ignoramus friend named Timmy, and the "Mississippi Mafia" borders on the hilarious and hits awfully close to home. Or there's Sen. Seamus O'Reilly, a not-too-subtle Moynihan clone who seems to represent the authors' fondest hopes in this world gone awry. But the protagonist, Hockney, is not exactly believable. He decides at graduation that he wants to do investigative work, and with a minimum of effort becomes a renowned journalist. He is extraordinarily...
...small-scale enterprise, "special economic zones." If you listen to the speeches long enough, the sounds coming from the Great Hall resemble a Raytheon board room more than a conference of command economy planners. "The only test now is whether it works," one young party member told a visiting journalist recently. "We couldn't care less about ideology...
...major frustration for a journalist covering a foreign country for a long period of time, Kalb notes, is that he amasses much more information about the people, politics and institutions than can ever make its way into print. But, he says, "a story like the Polish crisis, which demands an analysis of an entire society, utilizes everything and everyone you know. It is a reporter's dream...