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...employees and an annual budget of $55 million, operates under statutory authority. Its stated mission is to report on the U.S. and American foreign policy and to "combat Communism." In practice, it has wobbled between its dual roles as Government propagandist and conveyor of straight news. James Keogh, the former executive editor of TIME who became USIA director in 1973, discarded the old Cold War attitudes of his hard line predecessor, Frank Shakespeare. Under Keogh, a skilled, seasoned newsman, VGA began finally to accept detente as a reality and to report evenhandedly on the new warmth in U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations...
...good grades themselves. Others are simply being generous, awarding more A's and B's because students need them to get into graduate school. This is tough on graduate schools. "Everyone coming in with a 4.0 makes it hard to evaluate the grades," says William Keogh, assistant dean of Stanford's law school. As a result, many graduate schools are increasingly depending on entrance exams...
...JAMES KEOGH, 56, chief of the White House research and writing staff in 1969-70, will succeed Frank Shakespeare as director of the U.S. Information Agency. A skilled newsman who was once executive editor of TIME, Keogh recently published President Nixon and the Press, a book highly critical of the major news-media treatment of the boss (TIME, April 17). Though propaganda as part of U.S. foreign policy has been toned down, Keogh says that the USIA job is more important than ever "now that we're moving from an era of military confrontation to an era of negotiation...
These he charges with down-playing stories favorable to the Administration and inflating negative news, with blind skepticism toward presidential policies and governmental authority generally. Nixon is not the only victim, Keogh argues. The public is led to believe that there exist simple solutions to serious problems if only the President would listen to Tom Wicker and Eric Sevareid. Blacks are told that they have an enemy in the White House. Youngsters become accustomed to hearing that troublemakers are admirable. "If the U.S. declines," Keogh concludes apocalyptically, "history will not let American journalism escape its large share of the responsibility...
...Some of Keogh's arguments hit home. Columnists Tom Braden and Frank Mankiewicz accused the Administration of retreating in the campaign against hunger; the same day the White House sent a message to Congress asking for an extra $1 billion for federal food-distribution programs. Marquis Childs mentioned that Nixon got his news daily from a one-page digest; the summary is always much longer, and on the day of the Childs column it was 51 pages...