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Presidential Interviews: Harvard, almamater to six United States presidents, sought tofurther the special relationship in July whenK-School professor Marvin Kalb invited eachpresidential hopeful for a televised one-on-oneinterview to be conducted before an audience inthe Arco Forum. Kalb, the Murrow Professor ofPress and Public Policy and former diplomaticcorrespondent for NBC, said that National PublicRadio and Public Television Stations had agreed tocarry the hour-long interviews...
Presidential Interviews: Harvard, almamater to six United States presidents, sought tofurther the special relationship in July whenK-School professor Marvin Kalb invited eachpresidential hopeful for a televised one-on-oneinterview to be conducted before an audience inthe Arco Forum. Kalb, the Murrow Professor ofPress and Public Policy and former diplomaticcorrespondent for NBC, said that National PublicRadio and Public Television Stations had agreed tocarry the hour-long interviews...
...many reporters who stake their livelihood on the trust of their sources, the precedent was worrisome. "If I gave somebody my word that I would not quote him or identify him, then I would not quote or identify him, period," says former TV Correspondent Marvin Kalb, who is now director of Harvard's Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "You can't eat off a source's plate and then later say you don't like the food," comments Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh. Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Nicholas Horrock, a former Newsweek correspondent, felt compelled to promise...
...press is the middleman. It is in effect the professor for the public," Kalb says, adding, "policy is the result of the policy maker and the public." But Kalb says that recent developments in the press have unsettled his faith in broadcast journalism. "Network news has undergone profound changes. I worry about the trend toward increasing shallowness, pretension and egomaniacal compulsion," he says. "We must stick to old-fashioned values...
...problem, as Kalb perceives it, is that journalism has become a business. Today journalism is not only a calling, it's a business, and business requires accountants and this bottom-line compulsion that has very little to do with my image of journalism," he says...