Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distrust for ordinary people and events permeated his writing. The simplest matter was likely to set him pontificating about the need for a synthesis between Jeffersonian liberty and Hamiltonian authority, or half-whimsically going back to liberal first principles. And though such an attitude seems particularly silly for a journalist presumably dedicated to letting ordinary readers know about day-to-day events, it's precisely this quality that folks this week were praising...
...certainly worthwhile for journalists to think about the news, and there's nothing wrong with trying to relate daily events to more long-range, underlying trends, using philosophy to illustrate the news of the day, or even--as another aspiring journalist, Karl Marx, once suggested--undertaking a ruthless criticism of everything existing. But all these things involve an attempt to learn from and about the news of the day and to report on it--not an imparting of wisdom from Olympian heights to those mired in the news's reality. The inadequacy of Lippmann's call for making journalism...
Tension has been building ever since three members of the gang-Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist, Hans Jurgen Baecker, 36, a garage mechanic, and Horst Mahler, 39, a lawyer who rose to fame by defending student demonstrators-went on trial in September on charges of having helped Ringleader Andreas Baader escape from a previous imprisonment in 1970 (he was recaptured in 1972). As the trial began, 17 Baader-Meinhof prisoners across the country went on hunger strikes to protest their incarceration in solitary confinement. Their lawyers charged that they were held for months in "sensory-deprivation" cubicles lacking light...
Unmotivated Wanderer. No social scientist but a journalist and a former editor at the New Leader, Gilder plowed through obscure census data and federal studies for a year. He then sur faced with an alarming statistical portrait of the single man: he earns far less than a married man, is roughly twice as likely to commit crimes, go to jail and die early. He is also much more likely to develop physical and emotional illnesses and commit suicide. Though married blacks and single women face real handicaps in the job market, they make about the same amount of money...
...says nothing at all. Argues Reeves: "It is not a question of saying the emperor has no clothes. There is a question of whether there is an emperor." At one stop, Reeves contends, Ford apparently equated the legitimacy of Jordan with that of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but no journalist squawked. Along the campaign trail, says Reeves, many journalists referred to Ford in private as "dummy" or "Bozo," but treated him with due deference in print...