Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election to criticize his constitution on television, put off for years his own need to run for re-election and so on. This was all justified as an "interim" necessity in order to establish Russia on a democratic course. But if Yeltsin continues to govern in a style one journalist predicts will be "enlightened authoritarianism," it's a safe bet the apologias will continue...
Since it was launched in July 1991 by legal journalist and editor Steven Brill, the Courtroom Television Network (of which Time Warner is part owner) has immersed cable viewers in the slow, sometimes tedious, often mesmerizing workings of the American judicial system. With 47 states now allowing cameras in the courtroom, the channel has broadcast such high-profile proceedings as the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the insanity defense of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the parole hearings of Charles Manson and his followers. But nothing has brought it quite so much attention as the Menendez case. Says senior vice...
...Times' announcements, while useful for discouraging bigamists, perform other functions. A brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...
...harder Canadian officials struggle to hold back the tide, the more ridiculous the battle seems. "People are only talking about Teale because of the ban," says Bob Levin, an American journalist who is an assistant managing editor at the Toronto newsweekly MacLean's. "The ban has backfired." Some Canadian journalists think a review of such restrictions is long overdue. Jim Coyle of the Ottawa Citizen says the ban is "based on the insulting assumption that the public is a pack of morons who would be irretrievably tainted should they know certain facts...
What's the secret? Women are just as capable of those qualities as men, although they are often discouraged. And diplomacy, which is something society associates with women, is necessary in all these areas too. A good journalist knows how to schmooze as well...