Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RAUFF FELT SO secure in Chile that in 1966 he told a journalist who asked him how he viewed his actions during the war, "I would have to say I would do the same thing again. There was nothing else to do." His peaceful existence was, however, ended in 1970 by the election of Allende and the Popular Unity government. Astute enough, after 25 years avoiding trial, to realize that even if Allende did not deport him, his ownership of the factory would be threatened, Rauff fled Chile. He apparently lived in exile in another South American country...
...placed the total funds given to 18 present or former public officials and staff members since 1957 at $1,778,878. Rockefeller paid about $840,000 in taxes on those gifts. Another $326,290 was bestowed on nongovernmental associates, including $155,000 to Emmet John Hughes, an author, journalist and former adviser to President Eisenhower...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Harris gives no quarter to any journalist living or dead ("Reporters cannot believe things they cannot instantly absorb, jot down, add up and phone in ... The media treat with cyn icism or derision anything they cannot comprehend"). Since no information broadcast or printed is worth knowing, he says, people should simply ignore journalism. They will learn of really important matters through other means - conversation, literature, deduction, he suggests. Then Harris switches hyper bole in midflight, arguing that the press's preoccupation with Watergate caused it to ignore more important problems, such...
...story like this is just the sort of revenge a journalist would wreak. After years of bridging the gaps between White House prayer-breakfasts and White House horrors, and between Redskin games and carpet bombings, a good newsman must wonder between bombshells whether anything is sacred to men of government...
...Berlin journalist named Joseph Roth put this sensitivity into a fine novel, which Eva Tucker has translated beautifully. The novel tells about three generations of the Trotta family, beginning with the grandfather, a Slovene peasant named Joseph who accidentally saves his emperor's life at the Battle of Solferino. Afterwards everyone calls the peasant the hero of Solferino--even the schoolbooks retell the lies about him--and he becomes a baron...