Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blather about 'responsibility' to keep secrets instead of exploding abuses has begun to creep back into the press parlance," he wrote, citing "the old pre-Watergate, pre-Vietnam ideals of partnership with government...of a camaraderie of secrets shared by this peerage but kept from the public...
With that in mind, it's worth noting that the sub story isn't the only CIA news The Times has kept from the public recently. Alexander Cockburn, The Village Voice's excellent press critic, reports that President Ford told The Times's editors about two weeks ago that the CIA might have planned and even carried out assasinations of foreign leaders. The editors did not print a story about the Ford disclosure. Instead, the information leaked from Times man to Times man, and finally, to Daniel Shorr of CBS. He broadcast the story, and the next morning. The Times...
...agreement. Land control in the PRG-controlled sectors moved ahead, there were no more privileged large landowners. But in areas controlled by the Thieu regime, there were no reforms: newspapers were--and continue to be--shut down; the people in some villages on the border of PRG-sectors were kept from going to their farms not for their own protection, but because the Thieu regime was afraid of PRG influence...
Wolfe was most often criticized for his break neck style and for playing fast and loose with the facts. Dwight Mac Donald called him a "parajournalist." But none of it seemed to be getting to Wolfe, who kept on churning it out, kept getting more outrageous, didn't seem to care...
...falling prey to the things he condemns. He's undergone a transformation, from reporter--or, if you prefer, realistic artist--to critic. Instead of producing things that everyone can appreciate and understand, he's given up his crusade against the cultural and become one of them. He's kept up the fight, of course--if anything, pieces like "The Painted Word" will make him more controversial than he ever was--but now takes it on the terms of his opponents, as if the critic's place is now more comfortable than the reporter...