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These questions are at the core of a new book, President Nixon and the Press (Funk & Wagnalls; $6.95). Author James Keogh, 55, a journalist and Nixon watcher of rich experience, wrote This Is Nixon in 1956. He was TIME'S executive editor before joining the Nixon campaign in 1968 and then for two years he was the White House assistant in charge of the research and writing staff. Afforded an excellent view of both sides of the fence, Keogh has written what amounts to the latest installment of the President's brief in the argument. In fact...
...Administration took office, Keogh reports, expecting an unfair shake, and Nixon himself warned his Cabinet appointees of the twisted coverage to come. As Keogh perceives it, those fears proved more than justified. He exempts some publications and individuals from criticism, such as U.S. News & World Report, FORTUNE, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, Columnists Max Lerner and Joseph and Stewart Alsop, NBC's Herbert Kaplow and ABC's Howard K. Smith. But he indicts big journalism generally-not for a liberal conspiracy, as some do, but for a "condition of conformity" that bends the news...
...already has an impressive command of the problems he will have to grapple with after Jan. 20: last year he was staff director of a blue-ribbon study of ways to make the federal budget show a truer picture of what the U.S. Government actually spends. James Keogh, also 52, who is on leave from his post as executive editor of TIME, will be a special White House assistant handling a new job in which his function will be, he said, that of "a sort of managing editor, coordinating the research, writing and production process of all statements and speeches...
...take great satisfaction, too, in announcing the promotion of James Keogh to executive editor of TIME. Jim came to TIME in 1951 from the Omaha World-Herald, where he was city editor. He became a senior editor of TIME in 1956, and an assistant managing editor in 1961. He has edited every department of the magazine, sat in often as acting managing editor, and supervised much of the general flow of editorial administration and production, all with distinct benefit to TIME'S staff and its readers. The title of executive editor has not appeared on TIME'S masthead...
...Sharkey, who had bossed the Brooklyn organization, was dislodged by Wagner. Keogh is a Brooklyn Congressman whose name has been frequently mentioned by witnesses in the current bribery trial of his brother, J. Vincent Keogh, a New York Supreme Court judge...