Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite serious domestic opposition, the government is turning its entire power against those "ungrateful monsters," as one Tory journalist calls the Americans. "If they are condemned unheard, it is because there is no need of a trial," thunders Dr. Samuel Johnson, London's leading literary figure and a confirmed anti-American.* "The crime is manifest and notorious. Their deliberations were indecent and their intentions seditious...
Paine had never been a journalist, and he arrived in Philadelphia on Nov. 30, 1774, with no more formal schooling than one would expect of a corsetmaker. His ambition was to set up as master of an academy for young ladies. When his ship docked at Philadelphia, however, he was seriously ill with what doctors diagnosed as putrid fever, and he remained so for six weeks...
...where a right-wing military trend is currently running strong. The meeting and speech nonetheless did have their impact in Chile. In a startling move, the conservative daily El Mercurio even printed the entire text of the OAS report on Chile. The issue containing it sold, as one American journalist put it, "like the Watergate transcript...
...media received less than 1% of the $13.6 billion in advertising agency billings." With the recent recession hitting their thinly capitalized black advertisers especially hard, even the most successful black publishers find themselves steering more conservative courses than they did in the protest years. Sums up a black Atlanta journalist: "Once a sword for freedom, the black press is now a flaccid instrument...
...steeped in mediocrity that it deserves its troubles. Says John Henrik Clarke, black educator and an editor of the civil rights quarterly Freedom-ways: "It's doing more copying of the white press than creating. Since the civil rights movement, it has collapsed." A perturbed black journalist calls black papers "woefully understaffed and lacking in quality...