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...bookshelves were empty, the furniture new. Sitting in his Kennedy School office, Marvin Kalb, the new director of the Barone Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, discussed his plans for the center after three days as a full-fledged academic...
...when the Kennedy School of Government needed a director for a new research center which proposed to examine the role of the press in the political process, Kalb was a logical choice. His years of experience in the field, combined with his prior academic training, made him a top choice...
...Kalb's appointment was announced this May, and he officially crossed the threshhold from journalist to scholar on June 1. But his experiences in Washington as NBC's chief diplomatic correspondent figure prominently in his plans for the Center...
...picture is what Kalb plans to focus on at the center. The task of the Barone Center is to formulate an academic program that will enable both graduate and undergraduate students to understand the unique relationship between the press and the political world, he says...
Changes in the way the government functions have thrust the press into a more influential political role, Kalb says. "No policy of this government--or any administration--can succeed in this democracy unless the people understand and support the policy, no matter how brilliantly conceived," he says...