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...Budde. But Paul Steiger, the print Journal's editor, has a better idea: Let anyone who wants to declare themselves a news outlet. "If they're going to let Bill Gates or one of his minions decide, we're not going to participate," he says. Spoken like a true journalist...
...stressed-out journalist, I'm grateful to be done with this week's writing, and I'm going to celebrate with water and a slice of lemon. Maybe it will do. Simple abundance, one day at a time...
...same belief that led the producers of Dave to cast a herd of Washington newsies in that political satire, including NPR's Nina Totenberg, journalist-historian Richard Reeves and the McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing...
...understand such sensitivity, especially since the studio that's distributing Contact is part of the same conglomerate that owns CNN (and TIME). As a stuffy journalist, I can only hope that the discontent with the "blurring" of news and entertainment might also take root in the world of prime-time news programming, in which dramatic music, hyped-up promos and film-noir lighting techniques are multiplying like hostile extraterrestrials...
...sure; but in today's world, could we really expect an internationally known freedom fighter like Victor Laszlo to leave a hotbed of international intrigue without the press's following his every move? No way. How much more credible would that movie be today if a veteran journalist--me, for instance--showed up for the finale on the tarmac. "Ted, I think--yes, that is Victor Laszlo approaching the airplane... He seems to be with two other people... There's a woman, a very attractive dark-haired woman, and... I believe the man wearing the trench coat is the proprietor...