Word: kalb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although House incumbents won re-election in more than 90% of their races, voters proved there are limits to tolerance. In Georgia's De Kalb County, Congressman Pat Swindall was indicted last month for lying to a grand jury about accepting a $150,000 loan that might have been laundered drug money. His constituents tossed him out in favor of actor Ben Jones, formerly Cooter on TV's The Dukes of Hazzard...
...Coverage [during a transition] is always superficial," says Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein-Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and a former correspondent for CBS and NBC. "It does not focus sufficiently on the issues that are involved or the issues that face the upcoming administration...
...this year's campaign draws to a close, many reporters and news executives find themselves in agreement. "Television news has been co-opted by the imagemakers and the media managers," says former network correspondent Marvin Kalb, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "The manipulators learned that by controlling the pictures you end up controlling the content...
...conferences a month plus six evening sessions a year. Dukakis embraced that formula; Bush refused to commit himself. However, as the report points out, most modern Presidents, including Reagan, promised to be more accessible to reporters, only to retreat as their terms wore on. Former NBC News correspondent Marvin Kalb, director of the Barone Center, is convinced that politicians cannot be truly successful without being open to the press. But his experience as a reporter forces him to admit that they can avoid the press with little damage. "The Bush campaign has kept its distance from the press," he says...
...American public, Kalb said, is largely bored by in-depth news analyses although it criticizes superficial reporting. "Documentaries are done--but you don't watch them. The very same people who complain about...superficial reporting are the very ones who are not watching the documentaries when they come...