Word: journalists
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...observes Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti, "is one of those things you don't know you need until you don't have it." In the U.S. and round the world, there is a sense of diminished vision, of global problems that are overwhelming the capacity of leaders. As Journalist Brock Brower wrote three years ago, if Martian spacemen were to descend and demand, "Take me to your leader," the earthlings would not know where to direct them...
Matt defends the Wanderer by complaining that "the teaching function of many bishops is not being exercised. As long as there continues to be silence on the issues, an informed layman-or journalist-can make his own judgments. After the tremendous leakage in active church membership, those who are left are more and more realizing that the faith is up for grabs and they have to defend...
...Dale Francis, 57, is a softspoken, teetotaling journalist who has not taken a week's vacation in the four years since he took over the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000). Francis was chosen for the job by Schick Millionaire Patrick Frawley Jr., who bought the then-progressive paper at the urging of conservative Jesuit Gadfly Daniel Lyons to give it a more traditional tone. A onetime Methodist lay preacher who became a Catholic in 1945, Francis has socially liberal credentials as a longtime union supporter and early civil rights advocate...
...this imposes serious moral responsibilities on the reporter and editor, who must judge each case on its merits (see TIME ESSAY, page 74). But if the journalist does his homework carefully, and if the choice then comes down to killing a significant story or attributing it to unnamed informants, the obligation is to publish. Without reliance on such sources, the principal Watergate exposés simply would not have been possible. Leaks have been commonplace in Washington for generations, and the Nixon Administration uses them too. The President knows the drill well. Martin Hayden, who as a correspondent met Nixon...
...pages 68-73), the reporter's and editor's decisions must depend on many factors-the nature of the leak, its apparent accuracy, on whether it comes from a judicial body or otherwise. He must weigh the possible damage to individual reputations against the public interest. The journalist cannot assert the right to print everything and anything; he must decide each case on its merits, while remaining accountable to his editor and, ultimately, to his audience. The decision is usually a battle of conscience waged by journalists far more seriously than most outsiders realize. In general, the American...