Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taraki, 62, a sometime journalist who heads Afghanistan's Khalq (People's) Party, does not have broad backing; some diplomats in Kabul believe his supporters in the military and among Afghanistan's small educated class number only 2,500 people. Yet the regime shows no sign of bending its rigid Marxist principles. While Taraki professes "full respect for holy Islam," his Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, angrily blames the bloodletting on the meddling of "imperialist lackeys from Iran and Pakistan...
...arrival in Moscow 2½ years ago, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Robin Knight has been regularly denounced by the official news agency Tass and a number of daily newspapers, especially for his articles on racism in the U.S.S.R. The weekly Soviet New Times called Knight "a boot-level journalist," and a Soviet journalism review included him in a "gallery of rogues...
Last month, however, ABC Correspondent Tim O'Brien reported that the court was about to rule that a journalist's state of mind could be probed in libel suits (the court so ruled two days later). O'Brien afterward disclosed that a lower-court decision involving prisoners' rights would be reversed (the ruling has not yet been announced). Chief Justice Warren Burger was so upset over O'Brien's leaks that he did some detective work. The result: last week John A. Tucci, a Government Printing Office employee who sets Supreme Court rulings...
...City after their landing, but earlier this year he bought an all-advertising throwaway newspaper in California and signed a lucrative deal with 20th Century Fox to develop movie ideas. "In the end I'm going to do something else in journalism," says he. "I'm a journalist...
...heeded Lando's argument that allowing questions about a reporter's thoughts would have a "chilling effect" on editorial decision making: White contended that only lies would be "chilled." Though they dissented, both Justice William Brennan and Justice Thurgood Marshall said they did not understand how a journalist could be prevented from thinking. Their concern was that journalists would be reluctant to discuss stories openly and frankly among themselves in the newsroom. Brennan would allow questions about these conversations only if the plaintiff could first show that he had been harmed by a false story; Marshall would...